Unlike dedicated hybrids without a comparable gas-only version, the 2011 Toyota Highlander Hybrid carries its gasoline-electric powertrain in a body that looks just like the conventional Highlander mid-size crossover utility vehicle. It’s a family-friendly hybrid utility vehicle, spacious and well-equipped, though hardly a car for the MORE

held a line-off ceremony today for the Highlander SUV, produced on GTMC’s new production line at its plant in Nansha District, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. The China-produced Highlander has a 2009 sales target of 20,000 vehicles; the new line will eventually produce 160,000 units per year. For GTMC, production of the Highlander marks its third vehicle series, following the Camry, which went into production in May 2006, and the Yaris, which GTMC first produced in May 2008. MORE

Vercipia continues to focus on the development of a commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol facility located in Highlands County, Florida. Since announcing the formation of the joint venture company in February, Vercipia has applied for and been selected to move forward with due diligence on a Department of Energy (DOE) Loan Guarantee for the Highlands project, which is now underway. Vercipia plans to break ground on its first commercial plant in Highlands County, Florida in 2010. MORE

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2011 Toyota Highlander Hybrid. Toyota has significantly revised its Highlander and Highlander Hybrid crossover sport utility vehicles for 2011. Among the changes, the Highlander Hybrid debuts a new, more powerful 3.5-liter V6 for 2011, replacing the previous 3.3-liter V6, while also improving fuel economy. The 2011 Highlander Hybrid receives EPA estimated fuel economy ratings of 28 mpg city and 28 mpg highway (8.4 Conventional engine Highlander. MORE

Debuting at the 2016 New York Auto Show, the 2017 Toyota Highlander Hybrid gets some styling and mechanical changes, as well as a reshuffling of trim levels. While the new Toyota RAV4 Hybrid has received much attention recently, the Japanese firm's larger hybrid crossover is now getting a mid-cycle update as well. The hybrid model gets a new. New York Auto Show Third-Row Seats Seven-seater SUV MORE

For years, the Toyota Highlander Hybrid has been the go-to hybrid crossover for well-heeled suburbanites who were too embarrassed to drive a minivan. Set to go on sale sometime in late 2013 or early 2014, the new Highlander was designed to be “a mid-size SUV with No Sacrifice”. MORE

One involves approximately 133,000 MY 2006-2010 Highlander Hybrid and MY 2006-2008 Lexus RX 400h vehicles. In the involved Toyota Highlander Hybrid and Lexus RX 400h vehicles, transistors within the hybrid system’s inverter assembly can experience heat damage due to variations in characteristics of the transistors’ parallel circuits. Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., will conduct two voluntary safety recalls. MORE

The 2010 Toyota Highlander Hybrid is a large SUV that makes use of the company’s Hybrid Synergy Drive system in order to return fuel economy numbers that are more often associated with family sedans rather than heavy trucks. Additional Reviews of the 2010 Toyota Highlander Hybrid SUV: Edmunds. MORE

The answer is simple: There's only one, the 2012 Toyota Highlander Hybrid. We get asked a lot about hybrids with seven seats. But the question is really more about fuel efficiency: What family vehicles with a third row of seats that can carry seven people get the best gas mileage? It's a major question for larger families, those with kids on MORE

AutoBlogGreen has the details on the '08 Highlander, and it includes an EV mode! Toyota could deliver a plug-in hybrid highlander, get 20 miles all-electric and 75 mpg using NiMH today! Tags: highlander hybrid electric cars plug-in hybrid fuel cell toyota Lithium NiMH Now you will be able to move the car across the street for street cleaning days without using gasoline. MORE

On February 15, the NHTSA opened an investigation into 32 complaints of engine stalling in 2006 Toyota Highlander Hybrid sport-utility vehicles. While Toyota clearly hopes the worst of its recall problems are behind it, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened a new investigation into an older Toyota vehicle. Of those, 21 MORE

The affected models are the Toyota Highlander Hybrid and the Lexus RX 400h, which share an understructure and Toyota's Hybrid Synergy Drive system. Toyota said today it will begin a voluntary safety recall that covers about 82,000 hybrid sport utility vehicles sold in the U.S. during 2006 and 2007. Lexus will recall roughly 36,700 RX 400h MORE

A brand new generation of the Toyota Highlander crossover made its debut at the 2013 New York Auto Show this morning, and with it came a new version of the popular Highlander Hybrid. The new Highlander is bigger and bolder than the model it replaces, now looking much more like a full-blown SUV than a crossover, though at the same time it promises MORE

Toyota will increase production of the Highlander mid-size SUV in late 2013 at the company’s Princeton, Ind. The company will invest about $400 million to support global demand for the Highlander, which will no longer be built in Japan by late 2013. Toyota builds Highlander in China for that market only. Annual Highlander production volume is expected to increase by approximately 50,000 units at TMMI. MORE

Buy a gasoline 2012 Toyota Highlander crossover in the U.S., Opt for the more fuel efficient 2012 Toyota Highlander Hybrid model, and your car will have been made a third of the way around the world in Japan. and the chances are it will have been made at Toyota’s Princetown factory in Indiana. Not for much longer, says Toyota Motor North MORE

BP last week announced it was canceling plans to build a commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant in Highlands County, Florida and refocusing its US biofuels strategy on research and development as well as licensing its biofuels technology. The Highlands project (formerly known as Vercipia Biofuels, earlier post ) was targeted to be the first commercial-scale cellulosic biofuel plant using dedicated energy grass. MORE

We have live photos of the 2017 Toyota Highlander Hybrid from the 2016 New York Auto Show. Today, the Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel-cell car gets its own manga, Volkswagen misses a deadline to present a diesel solution that satisfies regulators, and a converted Corvette sets a speed record for electric cars. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Today in Car News MORE

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Required reading: Bill Moore's EVWorld review and Martin Zimmerman's LA Times piece about their test drives of the Toyota Plug-in Prius and the hydrogen fuel cell Highlander FCHV. Bill Moore writes: Toyota may still be learning on the PHEV Prius, but it clearly has its act together on this vehicle (the Highlander FCHV). Now Zimmerman: Truth be told, I think I was a bit spoiled by the hydrogen fuel-cell Toyota Highlander I tried out just before the Prius test runs.It MORE

Both the Highlander and Highlander Hybrid vehicles have received a significant revision ahead of a 2011 re-launch. The 2011 Highlander Hybrid has an estimated fuel economy of 28mpg city and 28mpg [.]. Tags: Green cars Latest news Toyota new Toyota Highlander new Toyota Highlander Hybrid Toyota Highlander Toyota Highlander Hybrid MORE

Its Toyota Highlander Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicle Advanced achieved an estimated range of 431 miles on a single full tank of compressed hydrogen gas. By comparison, the 2009 Toyota Highlander Hybrid achieves an estimated range of 26mpg combined fuel economy with a full tank range of approximately 450 miles. Tags: Fuel Cells Green cars Hydrogen fuel Latest news Toyota fuel cell cars fuel cell hybrid Toyota Highlander Toyota Highlander Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicle Advanced MORE

Head To Head: 2009 Ford Escape hybrid vs 2009 Toyota Highlander hybrid. In comparison, the price out the door for a 2009 hybrid Toyota Highlander really depends on how many options or which package you select. Essentially, the base Highlander starts where the Escape leaves off. MORE

If you need to carry up to seven people at once, and you're quite horrified by the mileage ratings on most of the three-row vehicles that are truly up to the task, we have the vehicle for you: the 2012 Toyota Highlander Hybrid. With EPA ratings of 28 mpg city, 28 highway, it's the highest-mileage three-row vehicle, based on Combined MORE

Modest changes give the 2011 Toyota Highlander Hybrid a slightly different look, better fuel economy, more horsepower, and some additional standard features. The seven-passenger 2011 Toyota Highlander Hybrid delivers an estimated 28 mpg. Toyota Highlander MORE

Today, Toyota announces the refreshed 2017 Highlander Hybrid and a new Prius hybrid variant for the 2016 New York Auto Show, and we look at when electric-car tax credits expire. All this and more on Green Car Reports. The Nissan Leaf is withdrawn from New Zealand, and electric-car sales there plummet as a result. The refreshed 2017 Toyota. Today in Car News MORE

Toyota Highlander Hybrid – $40,170 – 28 mpg. Many visitors who arrive on HybridSUV.com may be overwhelmed with the amount of information available here. MORE

Modest changes give the 2011 Toyota Highlander Hybrid a slightly different look, better fuel economy, more horsepower, and some additional standard features. The seven-passenger 2011 Toyota Highlander Hybrid delivers an estimated 28 mpg. Toyota Highlander MORE

Toyota announced yesterday that it would conduct a voluntary recall of 133,000 Highlander Hybrid and Lexus RX400h crossover utility vehicles. The affected vehicles cover model years 2006 through 2010 for the Highlander, and 2006 through 2008 for the RX. Both vehicles share a platform and use the same powertrain. The recall will fix transistors in MORE

Such is the case with the 2006-2010 Toyota Highlander Hybrid & 2006-2008 Lexus RX 400h. To fix the problem, Toyota has issued a voluntary recall covering 133,000 Toyota Highlander Hybrids and Lexus RX 400h hybrids. MORE

The Toyota Highlander Hybrid remains the sole seven-seat hybrid vehicle on the market, and it has been redesigned and updated for the 2014 model year. hybrid sales, the 2014 Highlander Hybrid stands at the top of Toyota''s mid-size SUV line. While smaller vehicles--the Prius far ahead of any other model--make up the bulk of U.S. Our model was rated MORE

The 2017 Toyota Highlander Hybrid remains the only three-row hybrid crossover utility vehicle sold in the U.S. We had a chance to spend half an hour in a new 2017 Highlander Hybrid during last. today. And for the 2017 model year, it's gotten some mild updates. a power increase, and a critical feature for family vehicles: a total of five USB ports. hybrid SUV Test drive Third-Row Seats Seven-seater SUV MORE

> Highlands EnviroFuels, LLC has signed a letter of intent to become a Gevo licensee to produce renewable isobutanol, using syrup from sugar cane and sweet sorghum as feedstock. Highlands will build a commercial-scale “Brazilian-style” syrup mill in Highlands County, Florida, which would have a production capacity of approximately 200,000 metric tons of fermentable sugar per year. — Bradley Krohn, President of Highlands. MORE

The mid-size Toyota Highlander Hybrid remains one of the few vehicles on the market that offers a large SUV experience, while getting reasonable fuel economy for its size. To start, the Highlander Hybrid is a four-wheel drive SUV that seats seven in three rows of seats. MORE

The refreshed Toyota 2017 Highlander mid-size sport utility vehicle will feature a new Direct Shift 8-speed (8AT automatic transmission), as well as two new grades for the hybrid version of the model. The Highlander Hybrid adds two new grades, (LE and XLE) to its existing lineup of Limited and Platinum models for a total of four. All Highlander Hybrid models will continue to be all-wheel drive (AWD). MORE

It was also the brand's first hybrid crossover, sharing underpinnings with its larger and less-pricey Toyota Highlander Hybrid sibling. The Lexus RX pretty much invented the luxury mid-size SUV category, and it remains a substantial part of the brand's sales in the U.S. 20 years later. The RX was recently redesigned, and we've now had a chance to MORE

And the Toyota Highlander hybrid also closed strong, rounding out the top 3. Toyota remained in 3rd with just more than 500 Highlander hybrids sold during the first month. Toyota limped into last (in what again figures to be a 3 SUV race) by selling fewer than 600 Highlanders. MORE

You will notice that some of the best options are hybrids (RX 450h and Highlander for example). Toyota Highlander Hybrid. Toyota Highlander. The last time I checked, gas prices in the United States had increased every day for 33 consecutive days. MORE

TMS) will conduct a voluntary safety recall involving approximately 45,500 Highlander Hybrid and 36,700 Lexus RX 400h vehicles sold in the US. Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc. No other Toyota or Lexus vehicles are involved. The Intelligent Power Module (IPM) located inside the Hybrid System Inverter contains a control board with transistors. MORE

2012 Toyota Highlander Hybrid Review. The Toyota Highlander got a mid-cycle makeover last year (2011) that included changes to its front-end look such as a new hood, grill, headlights, and chrome accented black rocker panels. Toyota Highlander MORE

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If you are in the market for a brand spankin’ new hybrid SUV with the ability to haul all your friends, your toys and still not spend a fortune at the pump, the 2009 Toyota Highlander hybrid is a great pick. Priced from $34,700 to $41,020, this sister to the conventionally fueled Highlander doesn’t vary much in terms of style and options from its counterpart. When comparing a gas-only Highlander to a hybrid version, the main difference lies under the hood. MORE

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