You want to save the earth, but you're not ready for a hybrid car.
It is the world's best selling hybrid car and Japan's most popular new car of all.
He became chief engineer for the Prius, the world's first mass-produced petrol-electric hybrid car, in 1996.
This is the fastest speed ever achieved by a production-based hybrid car on the famed Bonneville Salt Flats.
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What percentage of hybrid car owners replace it with another hybrid when it's time to get a new car?
Buy a good hybrid car or light truck and drive it right, and you'll halve your oil use per mile.
If he drove a hybrid car that runs on gasoline and electricity, his car would emit much less carbon dioxide.
Honda was also a finalist in 2003, 2001 and 1999 for Element suv, Insight hybrid car and Odyssey minivan respectively.
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So is it really more environmentally friendly to buy a new hybrid car to replace your perfectly good 5-year-old gasoline-powered vehicle?
By alloying neodymium with dysprosium, magnets are created that more readily maintain their magnetism at the high temperatures of hybrid car engines.
That hybrid car that you smugly drive contains about 100 pounds of the stuff, largely in the electrical cables and the electric motor.
The overall electric car market has seen increased demand, with electric and hybrid car sales increasing 164% in June 2012 compared to June 2011.
An eco-friendly hybrid car, a gas-guzzling high-performance motor or would he stick with the greenest and most reliable form of transport on offer - his feet?
Earlier this month, still more hybrid car buyers were hit with bad news: more than 100, 000 Priuses worldwide are being recalled because of a steering problem.
For an example, in a hybrid car, a radiator works to cool the combustion engine while a second radiator cools the power electronic system that runs the electric motor.
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Johnson Controls is positioning itself to be a technology leader in hybrid car batteries as the industry shifts to lithium ion batteries from nickel metal hydride batteries used in today's hybrids.
Shares of electric and hybrid car battery maker A123 (AONE) have spiked this morning after Goldman Sachs analyst Mark Wienkes upped his rating on the stock to Buy from Neutral.
We can imagine the day when you'll be able to charge the battery on your plug-in hybrid car at night, because your smart meter reminded you that nighttime electricity is cheapest.
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In mid-August, General Motors announced it had "essentially finished" the design of its Volt, a radical new hybrid car first unveiled just a year ago in January, with planned production in 2010.
With combined sales among its four model variations registering 236, 659 units last year, the venerable Toyota Prius was not only the most-popular hybrid car in the U.S. it was the 13th best-selling vehicle overall.
Now, if we want to have everybody getting maximum use out of an electric car or a hybrid car, part of what we have to do is to create a similar distribution mechanism for electricity.
GM's vice president for research and development, Lawrence Burns, says consumers have to start thinking of their car as a power-supplying appliance as well as a means of transportation. (A hybrid car, for example, might be an alternative to an emergency generator during an ice storm.) Meanwhile, GM is endorsing Huber's thinking with plans to introduce plug-in versions of the Chevrolet Volt and a Saturn vue crossover by 2010.
Another start-up, Fisker Automotive, will debut with the sexy Karma, a plug-in hybrid sports car, then launch a sedan of its own.
They occur to us as way more hybrid than car.
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The Dodge Durango hybrid, this is a car - well one auto writer has said by going hybrid with the Dodge Durango, you can take a car that gets 12 miles to the gallon and get 16 miles to the gallon instead.
He ups A123, the maker of hybrid and electric car batteries, to Buy from Neutral.
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Note how he mentions the hybrid: the car that costs less and gets far better mileage.
In new fuel saving hybrid and electric car technologies, Japanese companies have retained, or, in some cases, recovered market leaderships.
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While many other hybrids, including the Honda Civic and Ford Escape, look almost identical to their conventionally powered counterparts, the Prius was designed from the ground up as hybrid-only car.
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