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Flash Drive: 2023 Toyota Prius Prime PHEV

Clean Fleet Report

Flash Drive: 2023 Toyota Prius Prime PHEV Plug-in Hybrid Technology in an All-New Package Toyota is taking the lead suggesting how you should drive a plug-in hybrid. The all-new 2023 Prius Prime gets two less miles per gallon in hybrid mode than the 2022 model, but the all-electric driving range has increased substantially.

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Road Test: 2022 Jeep Grand Cherokee Summit Reserve 4xe PHEV

Clean Fleet Report

Road Test: 2022 Jeep Grand Cherokee Summit Reserve 4xe PHEV. The 2022 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4xe PHEV is the second electrified model from Jeep, following the Wrangler Rubicon 4xe PHEV, which Clean Fleet Report tested earlier this year. Is This Plug-in Hybrid the Best Grand Cherokee? Jeep’s second electrified off-roader.

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2021 Toyota RAV4 Prime PHEV: 42 mile EV range/600 total miles! A smash hit!

Current EV

Motortrend.com reviewer Kelly Lin: “Toyota’s biggest strength is its hybrid technology, and in our SUV-obsessed market, the RAV4 Hybrid has overtaken the Prius as the best-selling hybrid in the brand’s lineup. The obvious next step after creating a popular RAV4 PHEV would be stepping up to an all-electric version.

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News: 2023 Toyota Prius Hybrid and Prius Prime PHEV

Clean Fleet Report

Get Ready for the Fifth Generation Prius. The Toyota Prius has come a long way since it debuted 22 years ago as the first hybrid car to be sold in the United States. Toyota pulled the sheet off the 2023 Prius before the media in Los Angeles on November 16. A sleeker look for next year’s Prius. seconds, which is 2.6

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Toyota unveils new TNGA-based engines and transmissions and improved hybrid systems; deployment begins in 2017

Green Car Congress

To enhance fundamental vehicle performance in terms of running, turning and stopping, it initiated a comprehensive review centered on vehicle platforms and is now, since the release of the fourth-generation Prius in 2015, expanding the use of new platforms throughout its product lineup. Advancement of Toyota Hybrid System II (THS-II).

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Soot and Spin: Two Plug-in Paradoxes

Plugs and Cars

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. And these advocates have successfully prodded Toyota to dangle a concept PHEV before our eyes. To take one example, batteries.

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Analysis: What’s the Best Way to Market EVs?

Clean Fleet Report

Battery-gasoline hybrids go back more than 20 years to the first Toyota Prius, but real mainstream battery-only electric EVs are only in their second decade. This carries risks, but separates the EVs from the standard offerings. The Toyota Prius, a battery-gasoline hybrid, is a very famous and recognizable example of this approach.

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