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The hybrid gets a 1.8, but oddly we don’t get the more powerful 2.0-liter in the hybrid here but Europe does.

The article title is totally right in every meaning it could.
The Prius car was an ‘alternative-fueled’ only model that cradled the [Warning Nerd Speak] voltage-boosted series-parallel gas-electric hybrid module for 15 - 22 years now. And now that engine has finally found its way into the Corolla name plate as a profit

just a lil’ p.s, after becoming owned by ChevronTexaco in 2000, Ovonics (restructured into Cobasys) perused to sue and restrict Panasonic EV Energy (a Panasonic & Toyota venture) from using their ‘large’ 28-95Ah NiMH cells. Licencing and production of those less than 25Ah were left unaffected, those long used in the

Maybe someone should design a manual electric car and sell it to rich folk to work out the kinks? Besides the 2-speed boxes Tesla first used (and almost got killed by) in the ‘08 Roadster, the closest real world examples are the front-wheeled 2-speed BMW i8 motor and all of the electric retro-fitted classics. There’s

Inevitably. It doesn’t help either that the two largest world economies have slowed down recently, and then there’s the ‘potential’ shock of brexit coming in a month’s time.

These are in fairness American Metrics.
In Europe at least where we have a good command of moderating ourselves....
2.3l - 3.0l is ‘Big’ and widely adopted originating for the longest time from France anything above 2.7l is when engine tax becomes expensive.
‘Medium’ would be the 1.6l - 2.2l units found in family cars.
3.0

yeeesh

They should know that Tesla isn’t in any [outside] danger of extinction. Someone should tell them that it’s not 2013 for Tesla anymore, or 2003 for EVs in general.

Fire fighting service be damned.

An electric prius is severely overdue, and the intact (growing) sales of the Prius Prime in January shows this. It made roughly 1/6th of Toyota’s entire hybrid sales.

Unfortunately, the Prime is also a very good example of how incompatible Toyota’s direction to its TNGA platform is to meaningful electrification, having

If we’re going to talk about Prius sales in today’s context, it must be put in the context of plug-in sales. You all know InsideEVs got all that sales ‘shtuff’ for that.

A half cut in sales for the Prius and Toyota’s HSD line is surprising, sudden, but not surprisingly unexpected. What’s surprising is how no one

I always had a soft sport for these elements of design. Moonwheel covers is just a secret perv of mine, and I never kowtowed to anyone who scoffed at form-following-function. If that’s the case Jalopnik should be very 50/50 on Citroens.

anyhoo... Smooth wheel covers work, and - in the rare situation - they can work visu

I always thought these were the first pioneers of cars slapped on with mustaches...

Nice Auris. ... Why aren’t they hybrids, America?

Is it not a hybrid/plug-in yet? Really? Because from a glance I had trouble from discerning the picture of this Passat from a Honda Accord or Insight.

The biggest issue we all have about the Smart ED (not sort for Erectile Dis-function) was that:
- It wasn’t updated mechanically.
- It was built best of the EU market.

The Smart ED would be far better where I used to live in the country side Ireland. The most common chargers were 3-phase posts where only Teslas, Renault

I wish some of us could be so surprised.

It was flawed to the fundamental sense of it, the LEAF since 2009 was built on the Tiida platform here in Europe. It still has the same shape from the “newer” Pulsar. It’s very much a step-between a traditional chassis and a ground-up design to fit a belly of batteries.

Anyways,

Same passive cooling, like a tablet..

But as with all electric cars, larger capacity means less charging cycles needed (with the same chemistry), thus better long-term life. They’re worked much less harder under the same charging/discharging load, potentially they wouldn’t generate heat as much either - potentially.

They depreciate worse than a big Citroen, because of $7500 tax credits or more from states. Though, without them yes they are among the largest shredders of value out there.

Rule of thumb is that the LEAFs after 2013 (there’s a mix of 2013s) have redesigned module cases or “lizard” that don’t hold as much internal heat, and they seem to not show any capacity problems. The larger, but now old 30kWh packs, confusingly for a short while showed loads of degregation, until it turned out to be