Comments on: Toyota Moving Closer to Prius Line

By: Stefano

Stefano — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:32:19 +0000

Ok to have the prius name over a family of vehicles if they're developed using the same concept of prius and mainly with the aim to reduce the use of fossil fuels and combustion engine for transportation. I'll reccommend Prius Plug-in Hybrid Tech (PPHT) as complete name of the new family of vehicles.

Stefano

By: SD

SD — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:53:54 +0000

AF:

TCH stands for Toyota Camry Hybrid.

According to fueleconomy.gov:

1996 Toyota Camry
Fuel Economy
Fuel Type Regular
MPG (city) 20
MPG (highway) 28
MPG (combined) 23

(They have revised the 1985-2007 MPG estimates to make them comparable to the new 2008 MPG estimates)

By: AF

AF — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:52:18 +0000

What is a TCH? What does it cost? 43mpg---too amazing??
How much mile/gallon does a 1996Toyota Camry get?
PLEASE DO NOT PUT ME ON MAILING LISTS....
Thanks

By: atuan_le

atuan_le — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:30:12 +0000

I am a car fanatic, but I have lately cruised to work at 55 mph (that’s my car’s best gas milage speed) cause the gas price has increased. It helps increase my mpg by about 23% (from 24 mpg to 30 mpg). My wife was very surprised cause I changed form an extremely aggressive driver to a super conservative one. If one can make a car with 60+ mpg, I defenitely will buy one. Love the feeling of high mpg.

By: Tim Fostik

Tim Fostik — Wed, 28 May 2008 13:55:51 +0000

I agree with Indigo. Convert the Yaris into a hybrid and you’d easily be getting 60+ mpg. I’d buy it.

By: Indigo

Indigo — Mon, 26 May 2008 16:34:08 +0000

It wouldn’t take much to re-engineer a Yaris into a Prius Lite. Also, I drove a Camry Hybrid for two days as a loaner car recently and it is a really impressive machine. I was able to get 45 MPG by driving conservatively. A hypermiler could probably get low 50s. So I could easily see a Prius brand consisting of Yaris-like Prius, a Prius-Prius, and Camry-like Prius as the architypes.

By: Need2Change

Need2Change — Sat, 24 May 2008 23:43:11 +0000

The 2009 Prius is slightly larger than the current model. It would make sense to create a smaller, version that gets 5-10 more MPG.

I'm not sure of the wisdom of building a larger Prius than the 2009 Prius.

By: mdensch

mdensch — Sat, 24 May 2008 04:17:56 +0000

This is pretty old news. Some of the car magazines reported on this over six months ago and one has since reported that Toyota is dropping the idea.

By: GR

GR — Sat, 24 May 2008 04:13:04 +0000

I just watched a really interesting documentary called "Car of the Future." It talks about alternative energy cars in a really interesting and entertaing way (they also talked about the Prius). If anyone has Netflix, you can watch it online on their website.

Just thought I'd pass that along for my fellow hybrid car enthusiasts.

By: Giant

Giant — Sat, 24 May 2008 00:19:50 +0000

"The Hylander and Camry do not come close ....."

Easy does it there champ. My TCH is getting 43 mpg (on the current tank). That's not that far off from the Prius.