The Truth About Cars
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
The Toyota Prius was once reviled by most enthusiasts and often the butt of jokes, even in pop culture. The 2023 Toyota Prius changes the narrative without sacrificing the core mission. Still, if you want Lexus quiet from your hybrids, you’ll need to, you know, buy a Lexus. That stereotype was often unfair and inaccurate.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 4, 2019
The Toyota Research Institute (TRI) will introduce the TRI-P4 automated driving test vehicle on 7 January at CES 2019 in Las Vegas. All computing system power is now drawn from the vehicle’s hybrid battery with the 12V battery now serving only as a backup.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 9, 2015
Toyota fully unveiled its fourth-generation Prius in an outdoor event Tuesday night in Las Vegas. The vehicle features smaller, lighter hybrid system components; higher energy density in the batteries; and an internal combustion engine with a thermal efficiency of more than 40%. The new Prius is lower, longer, and wider.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 11, 2014
Toyota Motor continues to lay the foundation for the introduction of its production fuel cell hybrid vehicle in 2015; the company began work on fuel cell technology in 1992. kW/L—twice as high as that of its previous FCV, the Toyota FCHV-adv (earlier post). Toyota’s view of hydrogen. —Yoshikazu Tanaka.
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
Green Car Reports
OCTOBER 12, 2015
While it has unveiled the all-new 2016 Prius hybrid twice--once at a glitzy event in Las Vegas, once at the Frankfurt Motor Show--Toyota has been very stingy with technical information about the powertrain that will let the car earn promised EPA combined ratings of 55 mpg or better.
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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