Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

announced that the 2012 Prius Plug-in has been approved for the State of California’s Clean Vehicle Rebate Program ( CVRP ). The 2012 Prius Plug-in also offers consumers eligibility for the State of California’s HOV lane sticker. While in EV Mode, the Prius Plug-in is rated by the EPA to drive up to 11 miles.

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Tax Credit Prius Plug-in Rhode Island 231

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2016

The Prius Prime plug-in hybrid, unveiled at the 2016 New York International Auto Show in March ( earlier post ), features a larger 8.8 The EPA-estimated all-electric range is up to 25 miles at up to 84 mph. liter Atkinson-cycle, 4-cylinder engine, used in all 2017 Prius liftback models, reaches 40%-plus thermal efficiency.

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Prius Price PHEV Sale 244

Green Car Reports

MAY 24, 2017

The challenge of reducing the energy used by traditional heating systems in battery-electric and plug-in hybrid cars is one automakers still grapple with today. Reduced battery range in cold temperatures, combined with batteries working overtime to heat the cabin, can produce drastic declines in EPA-estimated range figures.

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Prius Plug-in Toyota Plug 139

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2012

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has rated the overall range for Ford’s plug-in hybrid C-MAX Energi at 620 miles (998 km). The Toyota Prius plug-in trails the C-MAX Energi by 80 miles at 540 miles of overall range, and the Chevrolet Volt comes in third at 380 miles.

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EPA Miles Range Energy 286

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2013

Ford’s new Fusion Energi—its second plug-in hybrid (PHEV) and its third plug-in electric vehicle on the market—has an EPA-rated total range of up to 620 miles and an all-electric range of 21 miles. The Fusion Energi has a electric-only speed of 85 mph (137 km/h)—23 mph more than Toyota Prius plug-in.

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Fusion Plug-in EPA Miles 225

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2012

The Ford C-MAX Hybrid ( earlier post ) is now officially EPA-certified at 47 mpg city, 47 mpg highway and 47 mpg combined (5.0L/100km), 100km), bettering the fuel economy of the Toyota Prius v by 3 mpg on the city cycle and 7 mpg on the highway (5 mpg combined). In EV: Now mode, the vehicle operates in EV mode using plug-in power.

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MPG Plug-in MPH Plug 312

Green Car Reports

JANUARY 2, 2013

Ford has announced official EPA mileage figures for its latest plug-in hybrid, the Fusion Energi. Set to join the C-Max Energi in Ford's range, the new plug-in Fusion becomes America's most fuel-efficient sedan, with a rating of 108 MPGe in city driving.

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Fusion Plug-in Prius Plug 129

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Ford’s new C-MAX Hybrid ( earlier post ) sold 3,182 units in October in its first full month of sales, outselling the Prius v’s 2,769 units. Sales of the entire Prius family were 16,774 units, with the sedan accounting for 8,788 of those.) The C-MAX Hybrid is EPA-rated at 47 mpg US city, highway and combined.

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Prius Ford Sale Hybrid 294

Green Car Reports

MARCH 23, 2016

The 2017 Toyota Prius Prime, the new plug-in hybrid version of the world's best-selling hybrid car, was unveiled this morning at the New York Auto Show. The second plug-in version of the Prius hybrid, it will carry an EPA range rating of 22 miles from the 8.8-kilowatt-hour The Prius Prime also has notably.

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Prius Plug-in 2017 Toyota 60

Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

That''s how we found a broad hint that the next version of the Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid will have a continuous all-electric range of at least 10 miles. Remember that the current car, which the EPA rates at 11 miles of electric range, only offers 6 miles.'

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Prius Plug-in Miles Toyota 137

Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2011

The Prius v. The Prius v is one of three planned regional iterations of the vehicle: Toyota will release the vehicle as the Prius+ in Europe, and as the Prius α in Japan ( earlier post ). Bob Carter: Prius may eventually lead Toyota sales in US. I can see Prius eventually leading Toyota sales in the US.

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Prius Toyota North America MPG 186

Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2012

The Prius Family vehicles (Prius, Prius v, Prius Plug-in and Prius c) accounted for a total combined sales volume of 25,168 units (15.7%). Toyota Division posted total sales of 30,126 hybrids for the month; the Prius Family thus represented 83.5% of the total. Earlier post.)

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Prius Camry Hybrid Sale Toyota 199

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2013

By comparison, Fuel Economy is the top priority for Volt, LEAF and Prius Plug-In owners (97%, 94% and 98%, respectively). The 85 kWh battery pack Model S, for example, is EPA-rated at 38 kWh/100 miles consumption. The LEAF, as a contrast, consumes 29 kWh/ 100 miles. The LEAF, as a contrast, consumes 29 kWh/ 100 miles.

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Prius Tesla Volt EPA 354

Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2012

The base MSRP for the Prius Plug-in Hybrid is $32,000. The Prius Plug-in Hybrid Advanced will have an MSRP of $39,525. Both Prius Plug-in models qualify for a federal tax credit of $2,500. Its eligibility for a $3,750 federal tax credit drops that to $29,995.

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Tax Credit Plug-in Tax Ford 268

Green Car Reports

AUGUST 9, 2012

The 2012 Toyota Prius gets the best EPA-rated gas mileage--50 miles per gallon combined--of any non-plug-in car sold in the U.S. But the Prius hybrid sometimes gets a bad rap.

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Prius Hybrid Buy EPA 158

Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 11, 2012

It’s official: the 2013 Ford C-Max Energi is the most efficient plug-in hybrid to date, achieving a cool 100 miles per gallon equivalent combined in official EPA fuel economy tests.

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Prius 2013 Plug-in Ford 102

Green Car Reports

JULY 29, 2016

The discontinued Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid is now the subject of a lawsuit alleging that its advertised 13-mile electric range is deceptive.

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Prius Plug-in Toyota Plug 60

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Toyota expects Prius v to account for about 15% (incremental) of conventional Prius sales. The new Prius v ( earlier post )—the first of three coming members of the Prius family joining the original Prius in the US—will go on sale here at the end of next month. Under the hood of the Prius v.

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Prius MPG Sale Toyota 255

Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The 2017 Toyota Prius Prime turned out to be a better plug-in hybrid than we had expected when we drove it around sunny Ojai, California, on the press launch in October. It's a viable competitor to the second-generation Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid, though the Volt has an EPA-rated 53 miles of electric range to the Prime's 25 miles.

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Prius 2017 Toyota Gas-Electric 60

Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Last week, final EPA fuel-efficiency results were released for the 2017 Toyota Prius Prime plug-in hybrid. Move over, BMW: there's a new efficiency champion in town this year—and you'll have to give back that laurel wreath you've worn since 2014.

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Prius BMW Toyota Energy 60

Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

The rise of battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) have fans professing its technological wonders, while looking down at plug-in hybrid EVs (PHEVs). Plugging in is key. If a vehicle is deemed “environmentally harmful,” then the EPA will step in to put their foot down. So far, PHEVs haven’t been given the boot by the EPA just yet.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The 2017 Toyota Prius Prime is a far, far better plug-in hybrid than its predecessor. It defaults to electric-only operation, it has 25 miles of EPA-rated electric range, and in electric operation, it is by far the most energy-efficient vehicle you can buy this year in the U.S.

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Prius Buy 2017 Toyota 60

Green Car Reports

MARCH 13, 2012

The standard 2012 Toyota Prius is rated at 50 miles per gallon, and at best it has 1 mile or so of all-electric range (under. And we can readily grasp the range in miles of an electric car. But when a car has both a gasoline engine and an electric motor, things can get complicated.

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Prius 2012 Toyota Plug-in 79

Green Car Reports

JUNE 28, 2016

We usually think of automotive energy efficiency in terms of miles per gallon, but that isn't adequate for cars with plugs. For battery-electric cars and plug-in hybrids, the EPA has created a surrogate measure for how many miles a car powered by a battery can go on the amount of energy that's contained in 1 gallon of gasoline.

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Electric Cars Prius EPA Plug-in 102

Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 5, 2015

They're both green-car leaders--in the public eye and in EPA energy-efficiency ratings. But the new 2016 Toyota Prius and 2016 Chevrolet Volt take very different approaches to delivering that efficiency. The newest Prius is the latest generation of the world's best-known, and best-selling, hybrid car.

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2016 Prius Volt Chevrolet 60

Green Car Reports

APRIL 14, 2018

What might a restyled 2019 Toyota Prius hybrid look like? When will all-wheel-drive and lower-range versions of the Tesla Model 3 go on sale? What about its Model Y crossover sibling? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending on Friday, April 13, 2018.

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Buick Plug-in Prius EPA 82

Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 21, 2015

beating the now-legendary Toyota Prius by a few months. It was the first hybrid car to be sold in the U.S., It was a tiny two-seater with a three-cylinder engine, spats over the rear wheel openings to reduce aerodynamic drag, and a host of highly advanced technologies for its time.

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Prius Honda Insight Toyota 2016 60

Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The 2017 Toyota Prius Prime plug-in hybrid's tenure as the most energy-efficient car on sale in the U.S. turned out to be short. The Toyota recently took the title of most energy-efficiency vehicle available in the U.S. away from the BMW i3, which had held it since 2014. But now there's a new kid on the block.

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Prius Hyundai BMW Energy 60

Green Car Reports

APRIL 7, 2014

Ever since the first Honda Insight and Toyota Prius arrived on U.S. The latest Toyota Prius is rated at 50 mpg combined by the EPA, a figure that only plug-in vehicles currently top. But in other countries, the Prius has even higher official economy figures.

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Honda Insight Prius Hybrid MPG 115

Green Car Reports

APRIL 16, 2012

There's likely a huge market demand for higher-mileage minivans and wagons, but so far, the 2012 Toyota Prius V is the sole entry that gets more than 40 mpg in EPA testing.

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Minivan Chrysler Plug-in Plug 90

Baua Electric

MARCH 1, 2024

As always, the ACEEE also published a list of “greenest” vehicles for the environment, which this year was topped by the Toyota Prius Prime SE. The plug-in hybrid’s estimated annual fuel cost of $529 puts the Hummer EV’s inefficiency in perspective. So it’s tread heavy and tread heavier.

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Hummer GMC Environment Gas 52

Green Car Reports

AUGUST 7, 2017

The company didn't discuss battery capacity in kilowatt-hours, for instance, giving range in miles instead, nor did it release specs for motor output, EPA ratings.

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Prius Tesla EPA Electric 120

Green Car Reports

APRIL 15, 2017

What do automakers really want the EPA to do about those 2022 through 2025 vehicle emission rules? Which carmaker launched the first-ever pursuit-rated hybrid police car? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending on Friday, April 14, 2017.

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Plug-in Prius Honda EPA 74

Green Car Reports

MARCH 3, 2018

What institution disavowed its own study, cited by the EPA, that claimed older diesels emitted no more pollutants than newer ones with sophisticated exhaust emssion-treatment systems? Which new electric luxury crossover utility beat Audi, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz to the punch in targeting Tesla? This is our look back at the Week In.

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Prius Plug-in Exhaust Audi 62

Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2012

Ford projects that its upcoming C-MAX Hybrid ( earlier post ) will achieve an EPA-rated 47 mpg city (5.0 L/100km)—higher fuel economy than the Toyota Prius v (44 mpg / 5.3 The vehicle can be driven 500-plus miles with total system output of 188 hp (140 kW), compared to the 134 hp (100 kW) from Toyota Prius v and Prius.

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MPG Hybrid Ford Prius 252

Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 25, 2017

What new hybrid and plug-in cars are coming from Ford, which has been notably silent on that front since 2013? How does fossil-fuel-loving EPA administrator Scott Pruitt define the word "environmentalism"?

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Hybrid Prius Volt EPA 72

Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

While its EPA ratings never approached those of the larger Toyota Prius hybrid, the little two-seater found buyers who liked its cheeky character and the ease of parking a car less than 9 feet long. When the tiny Smart ForTwo launched in the U.S. a decade ago, it got a huge boost in sales from both novelty and soaring gas prices.

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Gasoline-Electric All-Electric Canada Gasoline 120