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 In hybrid mode, the Prius Prime exceeds all competitors’ fuel economy ratings with EPA-estimated 55 city/53 highway/54 combined MPG. The engine features a very high compression ratio of 13.0:1,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2019

A new study carried out by University College Dublin (UCD) academics has found that under typical Irish commuting conditions, the Toyota Prius IV (fourth-generation) hybrid ( earlier post ) drives in zero emissions mode (ZEV) for significantly more than half (62%) of the time and more than 40% (40.4%) of the distance covered.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 5, 2013

The records just keep on tumbling, as Toyota announces a new milestone for its Prius line of hybrids. That figure is three million--the cumulative global sales total through June, for all Prius models since the car debuted in Japan in 1997.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2013

Cumulative global sales of TMC hybrid models as of 31 March 2013. Cumulative global sales of Toyota Motor Corporation’s (TMC’s) hybrid vehicles—including plug-in hybrids— topped the 5 million unit mark as of 31 March 2013, reaching 5.125 million units. Cumulative global sales of Toyota hybrid models through 31 March 2013.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2012

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announced that global cumulative sales of its hybrid vehicles—passenger car and commercial—topped the 4-million unit mark as of 30 April. Of these, the original Prius (liftback) accounts for 65.8% Of these, the original Prius (liftback) accounts for 65.8% Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Heard Californians say that the Model 3 is the new Prius? No exaggeration, they’re everywhere. Tesla surged to a 10.5% market share in California in the fourth quarter of the year, and it maintained an overall 6.5% market share in California for all of 2021, compared to 2.1% for the U.S. as a whole.

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Green Car Congress

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 Congress

APRIL 6, 2011

announced the one-millionth sale of the Toyota Prius in the United States. It is the third million-class milestone for Toyota’s hybrid lineup in the last six months that started with the announcement of worldwide Toyota Prius sales topping two million in October 2010 and overall global Toyota hybrid sales passing three million last month.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

is advising the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) of plans to conduct voluntary safety recalls of approximately 701,000 Model Year 2010-2014 Prius vehicles to update the motor/generator control ECU and hybrid control ECU software. This is part of a global recall for the issue. Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Cumulative global sales of Toyota Motor Corporation’s (TMC) hybrid vehicles has exceeded the 7 million unit mark as of 30 September, reaching 7.053 million units. The Prius family with all its variants accounts for 67.8% Toyota launched the “Coaster Hybrid EV” in August 1997 and the “Prius” in December of the same year.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 11, 2018

Global sales of compact hatchbacks are hardly surging, and fuel economy for all types of vehicles is steadily improving. Even given those factors, though, the fourth-generation Toyota Prius hybrid has had an especially rough road since its launch as a 2016 model. Prius sales were almost.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

(TMT) held a line-off ceremony today at its Gateway Plant in Chachoengsao Province to mark the start of production of the Prius. The Prius, launched in 1997, topped cumulative global sales of 2 million units at the end of September this year.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 9, 2013

The Toyota Prius has come a long way since hitting the market over a decade ago. Fast-track to 2012 and it was one of the world''s highest-selling cars, with 389,932 units hitting the streets globally.'

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2013

Toyota launched the first Prius MPG Challenge in the US, rewarding environmentally-conscious, charitable organizations in N.Y., Participants will borrow a Prius Plug-in for 30 days. that prepares students to attain academic, personal and professional excellence in a multicultural and global society. RYASAP, a Bridgeport, Conn.-based

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2015

5,264,300 of those are in the Prius family (65.4%): Prius (3,527,100); Prius α / Prius v / Prius + (582,400); Aqua / Prius c (1,081,200); and Prius PHV (73,600). Camry Hybrid is the next most sold, with 528,300 units.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

liter Skyactiv is just as frugal as the Honda Fit Hybrid, and only very slightly shy of the Prius α’s 31 km/L. The Prius is in second place (170 votes), followed closely by the Daihatsu e:S (147 votes). The Prius α comes in fourth (111 votes), followed by the Honda Fit Shuttle Hybrid (55 votes). mpg US, 3.33

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 31, 2021

Global plugin vehicle registrations were up 94% last month compared to July 2020, scoring 480,000 units (or 7.1% share of the overall auto market). That made it the plugin market’s third best month ever. Fully electric vehicles (BEVs) represented 66% of plugin registrations in July, in line with the year-to-date (YTD) tally.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2010

(TMS) announced that New York City will join the company’s US Prius Plug-in Hybrid vehicle (PHV) demonstration program. Five new Prius Plug-in Hybrid vehicles (PHVs) will be used on city streets as part of Toyota’s partnership with the New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT) and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

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InsideEVs

JULY 13, 2022

The first Toyota to get a solid-state battery is believed to be the next-gen Prius hybrid, not an EV.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2010

The Toyota Prius has reached 200,000 units in sales in Europe after 10 years on the market there. Toyota expects global sales of the Prius to exceed two million by the autumn of 2010. The Prius was launched in 2000 to the European market. Sales there reached 100,000 in 2008 and doubled to 200,000 in two more years.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2011

The new Toyota Prius α hybrid vehicle features automotive interiors made of DuPont Sorona EP polymer, a high-performance, renewably sourced thermoplastic resin. Toyota launched the Prius α in Japan in May 2011. and Howa Plastics Co., and Howa Plastics Co.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

The Panasonic Group will supply the lithium-ion batteries for Toyota Motor Corporation’s Prius Plug-in Hybrid. Li-ion cell for Prius PHV. Earlier post.) This will be the first time for the Panasonic Group to supply its lithium-ion batteries for a mass production plug-in hybrid vehicle. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Toyota has reached yet another significant milestone in global hybrid sales. The Japanese automaking giant has surpassed 10 million hybrid sales globally since the launch of the first-generation Prius in 1997. That total includes hybrids sold under Toyota's Lexus luxury brand, as well as sales of two plug-in hybrid models.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

The new 2016 Toyota Prius hybrid made its debut in Las Vegas Tuesday evening, where 350 guests watched the latest model of the world's most popular hybrid car raised into the night sky at an elaborate event to mark its global launch.

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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

AUGUST 31, 2010

It was just a year ago when a global shortages of 2010 Toyota Prius models kept supplies tight all over the world. Last summer, the company had just launched the all-new 2010 Prius, the third generation of the industry's iconic hybrid-electric vehicle. Talk about up-again, down-again.

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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 Congress

AUGUST 5, 2010

Annual sales of TMC hybrids in Japan and globally. million units have been sold globally as of 31 July 2010, according to the company. The Prius has been the top-seller in Japan for the last fourteen months ( earlier post ). YTD figure is through 31 July 2010. Click to enlarge. million units.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 30, 2021

Global plugin vehicle registrations were up an impressive 199% last month compared to May 2020, to some 442,000 units (or 6.6% share of the overall auto market). That was the industry’s 3rd best month ever. Fully electric vehicles (BEVs) jumped 190%, to some 295,000 registrations (or 4.4%

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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 14, 2010

Portland State University (PSU) and its Oregon partners, including Portland General Electric, have been selected by Toyota as one of six groups nationally to demonstrate and evaluate the next-generation Prius Plug-in Hybrid Vehicle (PHV). Portland State University will administer the program regionally.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The 2016 Toyota Prius, the fourth generation of the company's iconic hybrid-electric vehicle, is just starting to come onto the market around the world.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Annual global sales of TMC hybrids. Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) has cumulatively sold more than 2 million hybrid vehicles since the launch in 1997 in Japan of the Coaster Hybrid EV in August and the Prius in December. On May 31, 2007, the global cumulative sales of TMC’s hybrid vehicles had topped 1 million. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2009

The 2010 Prius. Toyota also previewed the vehicle this weekend in Los Angeles via its “Prius Connection” program for select early adopters and enthusiast forum participants, attracting potential buyers from across the US and Canada. The 2010 Prius 1.8L The 2010 Prius features a new 1.8-liter Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2011

(TMS), will conduct a voluntary safety recall involving approximately 52,000 2001 through 2003 Prius vehicles sold in the US to replace the electric power steering pinion shaft attachment nuts. This announcement is for US vehicles included in Toyota Motor Corporation’s global recall of 106,000 vehicles.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Toyota made the announcement Thursday as it unveiled the Corolla sedan at simultaneous events in California and China, underscoring the model's global appeal. The redesigned 2020 Toyota Corolla sedan will soon spawn a hybrid variant, the first gasoline-electric version of the automaker's popular compact car.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Global annual sales of TMC hybrids. Globally, cumulative sales of TMC-produced hybrid vehicles since the first was launched in 1997 have now topped 4.60 Globally, cumulative sales of TMC-produced hybrid vehicles since the first was launched in 1997 have now topped 4.60 Of the global 4.6 Click to enlarge.

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