Comments on: Four Reasons Why a Prius Minivan Matters

By: Cheryl Sheehy

Cheryl Sheehy — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 18:00:16 +0000

Its 2012 and I haven't seen this yet. Where can I see one?

By: Shimon

Shimon — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 06:14:04 +0000

As we know, nowadays American hybrid cars, if they want to buy super efficient hybrid with family oriented, they will purchase hybrid SUV such as Cadillac Escalade Hybrid Anhängerkupplung or Toyota Highlander Hybrid. But when Prius Minivan comes, they have more option. Nikkei states that Prius Minivan will be more flexible and of course more affordable than hybrid SUVs.

By: James East

James East — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:34:48 +0000

I am hoping to buy the Prius minivan this summer. I am using it to promote my green friendly boutique that I own. I'm hoping that I am able to convince people to go green by driving and promoting my store at the same time. I'm looking into getting a vehicle wrap for the prius minivan to help me promote these ideas. I am so excited for the minivan to be released.

By: Uncle Carmine

Uncle Carmine — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:07:05 +0000

Someone produced a hybrid 75 passenger commuter bus and the City of New York jumped right on it, immediately purchasing several hundreds of them, not to mention the hybrid prius cars for city agency use and they all seem to be working well…. and saving the taxpayers lots of money in fuel consumption. Consider all municipalities and governmental agencies in the United States and the potential (for sales of hybrids) fairly boggles the mind. I hope all the auto manufacturers take note of this and read the handwriting on the wall.

By: Capt. Concernicus

Capt. Concernicus — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:52:58 +0000

@ Ex-EV1,

I suppose that most buyers of the Tesla aren’t using it as their primary car.

I’m not against hybird cars at all, but as in my previous comment I was merely stating that if the Leaf and the Prius minivan are in your “dream garage” that you must not have much of an imagination. My dream garage has cars more along the line of Bugatti Veyron or Shelby Cobra Mustang, but of course my dream garage is assuming that I’m rich and don’t care about the price of gas.

I believe that the next 5 years or so are going to show a lot of promise as far as hybrid vehicles are concerned. Instead of trying to cram a hybrid system into an existing platform they will be built on new platforms that are more conducive to their internal workings. I’m definitely excited about it.

On another note I’m not much of an EV proponent. I still see them being more of a niche vehicles for the forseeable future.

Automakers take note: Turbo-diesel hybrids. Build them. Now.

By: baw

baw — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 01:57:01 +0000

Awesome…. I saw a Estima hybrid minivan in Japan before, maybe they will make the prius based off of that with better MPG with lithium and other new technology. It would be really nice if they based it off of a 2010 Sienna Sport Edition…..Those are the best looking minivans….

By: ex-EV1 driver

ex-EV1 driver — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:10:00 +0000

@Capt. Concernicus,
As a Tesla owner, I appreciate your bringing it up but I'll be the first to say that it definitely has 1 shortcoming - space. The main reason we take one of the gas guzzlers is because one can only fit 2 people and very little else in a Tesla Roadster. Hopefully, the Tesla Model S will solve that problem but, in the mean time, I can appreciate visionaries such as KieJidosha who recognize the value of a hybrid Minivan (for carrying a lot a long way) and a Leaf (for carrying a little most of the time).
My 2-car dream garage, of course, would have that hybrid Minivan be a plug-in serial hybrid (or EREV) with a diesel ICE and the Leaf (or maybe Model-S for the higher end option).
Who knows, maybe Nissan will surprise us by allowing the Leaf to have a little zip in it (a la Tesla) instead of dumbing it down which seems to be the prevailing approach major ICE makers insist on taking to EVs.
We can always dream.

By: Capt. Concernicus

Capt. Concernicus — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:18:35 +0000

@KieJidosha

A dream garage that has the Nissan Leaf and the Prius minivan. Now that's a dream garage with no imagination.

By: Capt. Concernicus

Capt. Concernicus — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:16:26 +0000

A Prius minvan and a Nissan Leaf are in your “dream” garage. Now that’s just sad. I’d have at least a little respect for you had you at least mentioned the Tesla. *sighing*

By: lily su

lily su — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 03:23:29 +0000

I like it.thank you very much.