General Motors has posted a video showing yet another potential advantage offered by the pending 2013 Chevrolet Cruze turbo diesel over the Volkswagen Jetta TDI. At least that’s the hope, because the competitive advantages appear to possibly be mixed with disadvantages as well, such as a starting price higher by $730, and city mpg lower
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Toyota Racing’s 2013-specification TS030 Hybrid will make its race debut at this weekend’s Six Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, the second round of this year’s FIA World Endurance Championship. The team will field one updated car in Belgium, wearing the number seven of Alex Wurz, Nicolas Lapierre and Kazuki Nakajima. Following their podium finish at the series-opener
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Nissan’s iconic SUV, the Pathfinder, will now be available in hybrid form. Nissan celebrated today the debut of the 2014 Nissan Pathfinder Hybrid at a press conference at the New York International Auto Show. This launch happened the same day its competitor from Toyota, the Highlander hybrid, was revealed in 3rd generation guise. The Pathfinder
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Audi Sport extended its winning sequence at Sebring International Raceway on Saturday by placing its two hybrid-powered cars in the top two positions. Marcel Fassler, Benoit Treluyer and Oliver Jarvis won the 61st Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Fueled by Fresh from Florida in their No. 1 Audi R18 e-tron quattro – the first
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With the Geneva Motor Show one day away, Toyota released info on the electricity-powered i-ROAD concept personal mobility vehicle (PMV). Toyota describes the PMV as a new, flexible form of transport designed for city streets. Seating two in tandem and under cover, the i-ROAD is an EV with a range of up to 30 miles
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Ford announced today the 2013 Ford Focus Electric earned the highest vehicle safety rating from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The Focus Electric, which is Ford’s first all-electric passenger vehicle, earned a five-star Overall Vehicle Score in NHTSA New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) testing, which combines vehicle performance in frontal and side-impact crash
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The green energy advocacy group, American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), has dubbed the Toyota Prius c as the group’s greenest car of 2013. With an EPA-rated 53-mpg city, and 46-mpg highway, ACEEE gave the Prius a score of 58, just one point higher than the electric powertrain Honda Fit. The standard model Prius,
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What if your hybrid vehicle was able to wirelessly charge your smartphone? This is likely to happen if you chose Toyota’s new Avalon Hybrid which will be the first car available in the world that offers in-console Qi wireless charging for Qi – enabled mobile phones and devices as part of a Technology Package. The
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Toyota sales in Canada are on a roll with 14,563 units sold in November and 179,854 units sold year-to-date, an increase of 21.1 percent. A significant part of this success can be attributed to the company’s hybrid lineup, wearing both the Toyota and Lexus badges. The company said November was a record month for Toyota
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Yesterday Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada Inc. (TMMC) announced it will increase RAV4 production at its Woodstock, Ontario plant with plans also to produce the 2012 RAV4 EV. Previously Toyota had only said the second-generation electric RAV would be built in North America, but now it has specified the vehicle made in collaboration with Tesla will
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