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Green Cars Showcased In Sacramento At Green California Summit and Exposition

Sacramento will be the host of hybrid cars, EVs and many new green technologies as the Green California Summit and Exposition takes hold of the Californian city. On Thursday and Friday, State and...

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Reduced Summer Shutdown To Answer Demand For Ford’s Products

Ford is seeing a strong demand for many of its products, including its hybrids, and will increase production accordingly. Ford said it will add an additional 200,000 units of annual straight-time...

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Echo Joins Calstart And Acquires Additional Financing

Echo Automotive, Inc. announced end of May it has joined Calstart, North America’s advanced transportation technologies consortium, with the goal of accelerating awareness and adoption of bolt-on...

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Toyota Chairman Calls For 5 Million Hybrids In The US By End Of 2016

Toyota Motor Corporation Chairman Takeshi Uchiyamada predicted yesterday that hybrid vehicles will play a larger role in the future development of automotive propulsion systems than widely recognized....

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The Hybrid Shop Showcasing Technology At SEMA

In a move to grow its network of dealer partners, The Hybrid Shop (THS) announced it will exhibit its new method of battery pack conditioning for hybrids at the 2013 SEMA Show in Las Vegas. THS...

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Gen Y Interested In Hybrids

Hybrids and alternative powertrain vehicles are catching the attention of Gen Y. According to Craig Giffi, vice chairman, Deloitte LLP, and automotive practice leader, Gen Y consumers are showing a...

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Silicon Carbide Tested By Toyota To Save Energy In Its Future Hybrids

Toyota announced it is using one of the hardest materials in nature, silicon carbide, to develop a semiconductor chip it hopes will improve the fuel efficiency of its hybrids, such as the Prius, by as...

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48 Volts Hybrids Are Focus Of The Week

The Advanced Lead-Acid Battery Consortium (ALABC) will focus on the affordable 48 volts “intelligent electrification” of next generation hybrid vehicles at the 14th European Lead Battery Conference...

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Toyota UK Sales Fueled By Hybrids

September sales numbers being fed from the UK show Toyota’s hybrids are proving popular. Britain’s drivers are opting for hybrid vehicles in increasing numbers. Toyota said sales results for September...

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Vincentric Study: Hybrids Are Worth It

Seven of the 29 hybrid vehicles offered in Canada promise lower cost of ownership than their conventionally-powered equivalent. This info came yesterday when automotive cost-of-ownership data research...

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The Netherlands to Consider Banning Non-EVs

If you want to buy a new car and live in the Netherlands, you may soon have to go EV. Well, within the next decade, anyway. A motion recently passed in the lower house of the Dutch Parliament would ban...

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Ferrari CEO Takes a Tesla for a Test Drive

Electric cars are known for ferocious acceleration, and so are Ferraris. Ferrari CEO Sergio Marchionne took a Tesla for a spin, and acceleration aside, he found it wanting. Indeed, he called it...

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China Considering Supporting Hybrid Vehicles, Not Depending on Plug-ins

China may be ready to support hybrid vehicles, instead of counting on plug-ins, as the pathway to reduce tailpipe emissions and dependence on imported oil. The Chinese government wants one in four...

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Analyst Forecasts PEVs Will Make Hybrids Obsolete Soon in the UK

Improvements in plug-in electrified vehicle coming to market soon could make traditional hybrids obsolete in the U.K., warns an automotive analyst. Battery electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles...

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Hybrids Replacing Diesels in European Market, Says Renault-Nissan CEO Ghosn

Renault-Nissan will be bringing its new hybrid technology with “e-Power” transmission to Europe to respond to diesel’s decline in the market, CEO Carlos Ghosn said yesterday in Paris. The “e-Power”...

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Developing Hybrid Technology Now Part of Toyota’s ‘Greener’ Campaign

Toyota is hedging its bets to meet increasing global emission standards, with expanded development of its gasoline-hybrid technology now added to the list. The automaker said today it will expand the...

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Nissan Note e-Power Hits Japanese Streets

Japanese car buyers now have a new kind of hybrid model to choose from. The Nissan Note e-Power, for now available only in Japan, is a series hybrid that uses its 1.2-liter 3-cylinder engine as a...

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Toyota Hybrid Sales Pass 10 Million Worldwide

Toyota has just passed the 10-million mark for hybrid sales worldwide. The Prius is Toyota’s most well-known hybrid, and of course the world’s first mass-market hybrid, but the company now sells much...

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Lexus Revealing LS 500h Hybrid Sedan at Geneva Motor Show

Lexus says it will be unveiling the 2018 Lexus LS 500h hybrid sedan next month at the Geneva Motor Show. It will follow the next-generation Lexus LS 500 that was shown in January at the Detroit Auto...

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