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World's Fastest (Or 2nd-Fastest?) Hybrid: Porsche 918 RSR

Green Car Reports

Possibly the most rapturously received vehicle at last week's Detroit Auto Show was the Porsche 918 RSR coupe, a hybrid race car that isn't even street-legal. And it's about as far from the quintessential Toyota Prius hybrid as you could get.

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Mercedes-AMG’s first performance hybrid entering series production

Green Car Congress

Development of this lithium-ion battery was inspired by technologies that have already proven themselves under the conditions in the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 team's Formula 1 hybrid racing cars. Slight pressure on the accelerator pedal is all it takes to set the AMG Performance hybrid in motion.

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