Toyota Motor Corporation announced that it has sold five million hybrid vehicles worldwide. Nearly two million (1,951,243) of those hybrid vehicles have been sold in the United States, under the Toyota and Lexus brands. In Canada, over 77,000 hybrids have been sold to date and Toyota Canada’s products accounted for more than 80 percent of
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Ford said today it delivered its best hybrid sales quarter ever in the first quarter of 2013 with sales totaling 21,080 vehicles – marking the first time Ford has sold more than 20,000 hybrids in a quarter. Ford’s hybrid sales were up 324 percent nationally over 2012, achieving 16 percent share of the electrified vehicle
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Two Canadians and a Toyota Prius PHV are competing in Monte Carlo at the world’s oldest and most prestigious green rally race, the Rallye Monte Carlo des Energies Nouvelles. The Toyota Prius PHV’s features will be put to the test in situations that simulate real world conditions in terms of fuel consumption and performance during
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Californians who have the impression they see Toyota’s Prius everywhere are not far from the truth. Toyota’s Prius-badged vehicles were the most popular new vehicles with California drivers during the 2012 calendar year. According to R.L Polk, the Prius family cars, which included the Prius Liftback, Prius v, Prius Plug-in, and Prius c, accounted for
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Volkswagen’s carbon-fiber XL1 plug-in diesel hybrid is to be partially hand-built with initial production of reportedly only 50 units. It will be an uber-efficient machine possibly capable of cresting 300 mpg in certain situations, but trickle-down from it is already planned for the more pedestrian Up! city car. Prices for the XL1 are not specifically
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Another top-tier supercar maker is further validating the plug-in hybrid concept by augmenting its successor to its ultimate speed machine with an electric motor. McLaren’s P1, the follow-up to its iconic F1 Supercar – a gas-powered model Tesla CEO Elon Musk once owned and was inspired by – will not be all-electric, but will benefit
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Toyota Canada Inc. (TCI) reached a record number of hybrid vehicle sales during the month of January. The TCI hybrid sales record was accomplished with 853 vehicles sold (up 30.4 percent when compared to January 2012). These sales were led by the Prius family (up 63.1 percent) and Lexus hybrids (up 23.5 percent). Toyota hybrid
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Sales of plug-in vehicles started from nothing a few years ago and are now at 0.5 percent of the U.S. market roughly, and things are due to heat up. Year over year sales has seen significant growth, and Pike Research forecasts that in the next seven years plug-in vehicle (PEV) sales will reach 1.8 million
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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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Sales figures announced yesterday confirmed the Prius Plug-in as the best-selling plug-in hybrid in the UK. The car achieved 470 sales from its launch date in July 2012, outselling its nearest rival, the Chevrolet Volt’s sibling, the Vauxhall Ampera, despite it being on sale since April, 3 months longer than the Toyota. This result is
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