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Looking to get in a hybrid for cheap? Used Toyota Prius 1.5 HSD 2004-2009 Review

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People might be bored reading about the Prius but a review on four Priuses (2004, 2005, two 2006s) that my family owns that ran a total of 913k km (570k miles) should be interesting, right? We need to go back to November 2017, to the start of the ‘Prius Revolution’ in the family. This criteria only left the Prius in play.

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University College Dublin Study finds Prius IV hybrids drive >60% of the time in zero-emissions mode under Irish conditions

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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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Tata Motors urges govt to keep hybrid tax, Toyota lobbies for cut

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Currently, hybrid cars in India that use a petrol engine and an electric motor combined with an electric battery pack are slapped with as high as a 43 per cent tax, while pure petrol cars see a 48 per cent tax. The Japanese automaker has been claiming that hybrid cars reduce carbon emissions compared to petrol ones.

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Toyota phasing out diesel in passenger cars in Europe, keeping diesel for commercial vehicles

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Turbo – 4-cylinder direct injection turbo-charged petrol engine (116 hp). HEV Powertrain – 4th generation HEV, same as Prius and Toyota C-HR (122 hp). HEV Powertrain – New, more powerful, TNGA 2.0L HEV (180 hp) ( earlier post ).

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Is the Toyota Prius Plug-in a game changer?

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So, it’s finally here: the hybrid Toyota Prius that will now do what people have expected the Prius to do all along. Available to order now, the Prius Plug-in arrive in showrooms on 9 July, to give extended electric running of nearly 15 miles instead of 15 seconds without the whining petrol engine kicking in [.].

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Toyota plans six more hybrids as Prius+ launches

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Toyota has plans to expand its current hybrid range to ten models by 2015, the carmaker revealed as it launches its fourth, the Prius+. The model joins the Prius hatchback, Auris and Yaris hybrid models as the firm plans to introduce a petrol-electric model of nearly every model it makes. “We We chose an MPV [for [.].

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News in brief: Prius production under way in China

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Though it is established as Japan’s leading green car, production of the Toyota Prius is now heading to China. It is the third generation of the petrol-electric [.].

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