Toyota as early as 2003 was also sued by the patent owners of Ovionic’s batteries to stop everyone from using their patented NiMH chemistry, primarily for Panasonic and Toyota. Threatening the RAV4EV (95A-hrs) to the Prius (6.5A-hrs) and many other EVs from the late-90s... In 2004 Toyota and its supplier Panasonic…

EU Toyota sells the Prius differently than US Toyota. I’m sure between the 28/27 member states there are differences. In Ireland at least the gammons try to sell the Prius as a non-Lexus premium badge. Base (mid-trim) price was always +€30,000 which was why hybrids never sold well here in the 2000s in Europe (except…

Atkinson cycle. Using a 13:1 compression ratio but on the up-stroke for ignition, the intake valves are delayed open, and the air-fuel mix is pressured out into the intake manifold (where it reduced vacuum looses for other cylinders in-taking air). A Miller cycle just uses a supercharger - but only because without it…

Pou-jo

It’s 2019 and you guys have only started to come to know this??

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.