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UCS Hybrid ScoreCard Dings Automakers for Forced Features in Hybrid Offerings

Green Car Congress

By contrast, the 2010 Toyota Prius Hybrid has a very high hybrid value. The Honda Insight, conversely, has no forced features, delivers more than 40 miles per gallon, and emits relatively little global warming pollution. The Prius scored a 9.8 Tags: Brief. The luxury Lexus LS 600h L hybrid is the worst offender.

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Will CARB’s New Rules Damage EV Startups?

Revenge of the Electric Car

The same state agency that drove the electric car off a cliff is now poised to wreck a new Berkeley company that triples the gas mileage of a Toyota Prius. The same state agency that drove the electric car off a cliff is now poised to wreck a new Berkeley company that triples the gas mileage of a Toyota Prius. They are innovators.

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Tigor EV Highway Drive: Bengaluru - Coimbatore - Ooty - Mysuru

Plug In India

His garage currently houses, apart from the e2o, a Toyota Prius and an Isuzu pickup. We realised quite early that the Tigor’s fast tag had a zero balance - so we ended up paying double the toll on the first three gates. A SOS call to Jayasuriya resulted in 1000 Rs appearing on the tag - and from then on it was easy going.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

BYDs plug-in, called the F3DM (for "dual mode"), goes farther on a single charge - 62 miles - than other electric vehicles and sells for about $22,000, less than the plug-in Prius and much-hyped Chevy Volt are expected to cost when they hit the market in late 2010. Near the end of our conversation, I ask Wang about the company name.

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