Green Car Reports

JANUARY 9, 2022

Toyota's planned solid-state batteries will debut not in an EV, but in an upcoming hybrid, an executive said in a recent interview with Autoline.

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AUGUST 28, 2013

Toyota’s next-generation Prius will deliver significantly improved fuel economy in a more compact package that is lighter in weight and lower in cost, according to Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) Managing Officer Satoshi Ogiso. The next Prius will feature improved batteries with higher energy density. —Satoshi Ogiso.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 8, 2019

Toyota tests a solar-powered Prius in Japan. The Connecticut Supreme Court will decide the future of Tesla stores. Cost estimates get real for renewable power plans. And General Motors cleans up not just its cars, but its factories and tires. Hybrids aren't just for cars and trains anymore. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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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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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Which automaker teased the 800-volt future of its EVs sized like Model 3 and Model Y? Which automaker is using a biogas-fed hydrogen fuel-cell plant to power its largest U.S. This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending September 8, 2023. The Polestar 2 is entering its fourth.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 28, 2022

From the Nissan Leaf to the Lucid Air, with the Toyota Prius, Chevy Volt, and Tesla Model 3 among the many formative models in between, our Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy winners each year have offered not just what we think you should buy, but a glimpse of the future.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2013

With the Prius Plug-in Hybrid vehicles, ISI, ISE and KIT will examine driving and charging behavior. The data will serve as a basis for the integration of vehicles into future households, where decentralized energy production is projected to play an important role.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2011

The Prius+, also debuting at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show, is a further expansion of the Prius family. The Prius+ is the first car to offer European customers the versatility of 7 seats combined with a full hybrid powertrain. This represents the next step in Toyota’s full hybrid roll-out strategy in Europe. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2011

(TMC) plans to make plug-in capabilities standard for Prius hybrid models slated to debut in 2014. Prius hybrid models debuting in 2014 will come with plug-in capabilities as a standard feature. Since some 70% are expected to be Prius models, the automaker hopes to use the plug-in versions to tap replacement demand.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Audi has confirmed some more details about its third electric vehicle, the compact Q4 E-tron electric crossover, and teased two other future EVs. Volvo has previewed more of its upcoming XC40 EV’s sleek design and sustainable materials—and it will have a frunk. Mitsubishi mulls four motors for its next plug-in hybrid.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 27, 2014

Toyota has been quite upfront about its belief that plug-in electric cars are not the technology of the future. (It And now this belief has appeared in the advertising for its Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid. It says hydrogen fuel-cell cars are.) That car is the third or fourth best-selling car with a plug in the U.S.--after

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2023

The service is available for the Prius U Grade. Upgrade Ready Design allows future devices and functions to be retrofitted by anticipating the work required for upgrades at the development stage and designing systems in advance that can significantly reduce the time required.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Where are you hedging your bets when it comes to the future of automobile propulsion? For some, the latest version of the Toyota Prius with plug-in hybrid technology is just what they need. Maybe you''re sticking with hybrids. Largely.'

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 14, 2017

Today, Elon Musk tweets, Toyota offers a cheaper Prius, a luxury electric sedan crosses 200 mph, and. Elon Musk tweeted some news about future Tesla products: how about an electric semi and then a pickup truck too? Sales of the Toyota Prius hybrid haven't been great, despite an. adorable doggies, too!

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2011

Two condominiums in Tokyo and one condominium in Aichi Prefecture will each receive two of a total of six Prius Plug-in Hybrid and iQ-based electric vehicle units managed by nearby Toyota vehicle rental and lease companies. TMC, in collaboration with condominium developers and IHI Transport Machinery Co.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 2, 2013

For Toyota chairman Takeshi Uchiyamada, hybrids are still the future. The man known as the "Father of the Prius" said Toyota still views hybrids as its top priority for reducing fuel use, even as competitors concentrate on electric cars, diesels, and other powertrain technologies.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Next Tuesday evening, the 2016 Toyota Prius hybrid will make its world debut in Las Vegas, kicking off what its maker calls "the next era of an icon." "We’re

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Teslarati

JUNE 8, 2022

“We own a Prius and a Corolla and are loyal Toyota customers, however, we are disappointed and upset that Toyota is not supporting a zero-emissions target in the EU,” one person who signed the petition said. “Please put our future before your profits and support the EU emissions goals.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 24, 2017

Today, we've updated our glossary of green-car terms, profiled the oldest Toyota Prius hybrid in the world, read through a 24-page report on VW's Electrify America plans for electric-car charging, and covered a future diesel Jeep. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 10, 2015

And so it is with the case of "Prius Prime," a new model name that may expand Toyota's line of Prius hybrids at some point in the future. DON'T MISS: Is This The Next Toyota Prius Hybrid. What a carmaker is planning when it registers a specific name can be hard to impossible to ascertain.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Today, we've got a different approach to electric trucks, a complicated combustion engine, more solar power, a plug-in future Ford, and some worries about U.S. The Toyota Prius V hybrid. competitiveness. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Today, we've got news on future electric cars from Nissan, Renault, and Toyota, some thoughts on more time in a Hyundai Ioniq Hybrid, and a sales race between the Chevy Volt and Toyota Prius Prime. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 13, 2015

We got some more details--well, a few, anyway--on the new Toyota Prius, and Volkswagen announced a possibly seismic shift in its future technology direction. At an event in Japan early this morning, we got a few more details on the 2016 Toyota Prius. Plus, we've got deals! All this and more on Green Car Reports. If you live.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 31, 2015

With the 2016 Toyota Prius scheduled to make its global debut in Las Vegas on the evening of September 8, you had to figure that photos of the car would leak out at some point. After years of spy shots of camouflaged Prius development mules, pre-production prototypes, and test vehicles, now we can see the actual lines of the 2016.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2020

Toyota has sold more than 15 million hybrid-electric vehicles (HEVs) worldwide since the 1997 launch of the iconic Prius, the first full hybrid mass-produced car. In Europe, sales of HEVs have passed the 2.8 Of course, we must work hard on improving battery performance and lowering costs (of BEVs), which we are doing.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Today, we compare the 2017 Chevrolet Volt and 2017 Toyota Prius Prime plug-in hybrids, Mercedes-Benz contemplates the future of diesel cars in the U.S., See how the 2017 Chevrolet Volt and 2017 Toyota Prius Prime. and nuTonomy plans to test its autonomous Renault Zoe electric car on the streets of Boston.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 11, 2017

Today, Toyota Prius Prime buyers complain of uncooperative dealers, Honda announces a new dedicated hybrid model for 2018, and California utility Pacific Gas & Electric offers rebates for electric-car use. Find out why Faraday Future's luxury electric car is called the FF 91. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2009

kWh NiMH plug-in hybrid (PHEV) conversion kit that enables all-electric mode driving at speeds of up to 70 miles per hour (until the battery pack is depleted) in a converted Prius. Some previous Prius plug-in conversion kits allowed motorists to go as fast as 52 miles per hour using a “forced stealth” mode.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 15, 2016

Taillight shapes are a big deal for Toyota these days, as the ornate styling of the 2016 Prius hybrid has demonstrated. Now the company has released a teaser photo of illuminated taillights on what it calls "the next mechanical marvel in the Prius lineup." That car will debut on Wednesday, March 23, at the New York Auto Show.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

version of its vehicle (a 2009 Ford Focus) but with fuel economy and CO 2 emissions approaching those of a Prius, according to David Boggs, Ricardo Technical Specialist, Engines, in a presentation at the recent 2011 Directions in Engine-Efficiency and Emissions Research Conference (DEER) hosted by the Department of Energy in Detroit.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2022

Toyota helped pave the way for clean transportation with the introduction of the Toyota Prius more than 20 years ago. Their commitment not only to sell millions of electrified vehicles this decade but to ensure their circularity into the future is a critical step for electrification.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

When Toyota and Mazda said last September they would form a joint venture to produce electric-car parts, that answered the question of where Mazda's future plug-in vehicles would get their electric running gear. But it sparked another question: Where did that leave Subaru, another small automaker in the Toyota orbit?

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

The concept, which previews the production model of the hybrid to be built in the UK beginning in the second half of 2010, uses the same powertrain applied in the current-generation Prius. In the future, Toyota aims to advance this technology to provide solar powered recharging of the hybrid battery. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 1, 2015

The all-new fourth-generation Toyota Prius is getting closer and closer to launch, as witnessed by an increasing number of spy shots of prototypes testing all over the world. Two weeks ago, a heavily camouflaged Prius was recorded on video fueling up at a North American gas station.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid Demonstration Program Vehicle 002. The 2010 Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid vehicle (PHV) made its North American debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show. Built specifically to support a global demonstration program that begins this month, the Prius PHV is based on the third-generation Prius.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

that hybrid vehicles will play a larger role in the future development of automotive propulsion systems than widely recognized. Some people say hybrid vehicles such as the Prius are only a bridge to the future. In January 1996, he became chief engineer of that center, which developed the Prius. That’s what it takes.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 14, 2016

but new competitors to the Toyota Prius seem to be popping up all over the place. Gasoline may cost $2 a gallon or less in many parts of the U.S., The 2017 Hyundai Ioniq range of hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and electric models just made its global debut at the Geneva Motor Show, only a few weeks after the Kia Niro hybrid crossover SUV.

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