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2023 Toyota Prius Limited Review – Finally a Worthy Choice

The Truth About Cars

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. Toyota’s SafetySense 3.0 Prius drivers were stereotyped as left-lane camping, NPR-listening, Green Party-voting smug virtue-signalers.

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2023 Toyota Corolla Hybrid Review – Sensible Shoes

The Truth About Cars

Or perhaps it was just that the Corolla never seemed as fully baked as other cars wearing the Toyota badge. The Corolla, though – I often wonder if it sold on some combination of price and Toyota’s reputation for reliability. Imagine my pleasant surprise, then, when I found myself vibing with the 2023 Toyota Corolla Hybrid.

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2023 Toyota GR Corolla Morizo Edition Review - Ridiculousness

The Truth About Cars

Toyota is a sleeping giant. Instead, we see this 2023 Toyota GR Corolla Morizo Edition. Toyota quotes a savings of around 100 pounds for the Morizo Edition over the more typical GR Corolla. Rather, Morizo is a nickname for Akio Toyoda, the president of Toyota, and himself a driving nut. Now, take a look at the interior.

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

Current EV

Toyota’s ground-breaking SUV reached a 10M global sales landmark in February of 2020. By John Coulter, CURRENT EV CMO In its new Prime, Toyota offers a RAV4 green version that employs a hybrid drivetrain relying on a gas engine and electric motors that draw power from a plug and regenerative braking. Demand is intense. Time will tell.

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2024 Porsche Macan review: First drive of one of the most important new electric cars of the year

EV Central

It doesn’t sell in quite the numbers of the Audi Q5, BMW X3 and Mercedes-Benz GLC, but it puts up a solid fight – especially considering it generally sells with price tags higher than all of those. That means something like 3000 cars annually in Australia, which is twice as many as Toyota is initially expecting to sell of its bZ4X.

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Ricardo Study Suggests E15 Poses Minimal Risk to MY 1994-2000 Vehicles

Green Car Congress

A study by Ricardo for the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) concludes that the adoption of E15 as the blend limit for standard US pump grades of gasoline rather than the current E10 should not adversely affect vehicles manufactured between 1994 and 2000 in terms of their performance and durability based on normal specifications and usage profile.

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Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles : Gas 2.0

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles Written by Jerry James Stone Published on April 19th, 2009 34 Comments Posted in Electric Cars (EVs) , Plug-in hybrid EVs Just a few hours after General Motors called for a standardized EV plug , one has been created! Update: The plug depicted above is not the agreed upon standard.