Topic: Hybrid Vehicles

Toyota's All-In-One Energy Hub For Home And Car

Toyota wants to take energy monitoring a step further with the Smart Center, a system that links homes, vehicles, utilities, and users into an all-in-one energy management hub.READ»

GM Shows Off Its Electric Van

The automaker continues to roar back, debuting the Vivaro in Europe this month.READ»

Buying Used Hybrids Is Better Bang for Your Buck, Says Blue Book

Think again before you shell out all that cash for the shiny new green car.READ»

If You Build It, We Will Come

In "Field of Dreams," Kevin Costner's cornfield whispers, "If you build it, he will come," and sets off a series of events that change the lives of Costner and those around him. While talking corn is movie magic, the idea of expressing a desire in order to see it fulfilled is a powerful one. And if the expressed desire comes from a Fortune 500 company, it can help change the world.READ»

Meet the Hybrid Supermini

Honda is set to unveil what it calls the world's first hybrid supermini at next month's Paris auto show. READ»

Big Apple Power-Up: Major New York Garage Gets Charging Stations

How can Manhattanites take part in the electric car revolution if they don't have home garages? Icon Parking has about 200 answers for that--and it's good news for Zipcar, too.READ»

Lessons From a Failing Smart Grid

XCel Energy's SmartGridCity project was supposed to turn Boulder, Colorado into the ultimate smart grid hub. But that's not how it's turning out.READ»

GM Ventures' First Investment: Electric Vehicle Startup Bright Automotive

GM may be banking heavily on the Chevy Volt for success in the electric vehicle world, but the automaker is still hedging its bets through a a $5 million investment in Bright Automotive, the startup behind the upcoming IDEA plug-in ...READ»

Toyota Seeks Most Prius-Crazed Customer for Tenth Anniversary

The Prius has, believe it or not, been around for a decade in the U.S. But the best-selling hybrid is still the ultimate status symbol for anyone hoping to prove their green worth. Most of us can conjure up an image of a typical ...READ»

Ford Charges Same Price for Gas, Hybrid Version of Lincoln MKZ

If you were given the choice between a gasoline-powered car and a hybrid car--same model, same price--which would you buy? Ford is making that formerly hypothetical question a reality with the 2011 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid, which is set ...READ»

Why Volkswagen is Sheepish on an Electric Vehicle Strategy

Look out on any street and gasoline-powered vehicles still dominate the road. But in the coming years, automakers like Toyota, Honda, and GM plan to start pumping out plug-in hybrid electric cars in a bid to keep up with the fabled ...READ»

Chevy Volt Survives Pounding in Tests

Conventional gasoline-powered and hybrid vehicles undergo all sorts of boundary-pushing tests before hitting showrooms, but this kind of testing is still new for plug-in hybrids like the Chevrolet Volt, which has yet to be released. ...READ»

Toyota: $50K Hydrogen Sedan Will Be Ready by 2015

Electric vehicles get the lion's share of the attention in the world of futuristic automotive technology, and for good reason--automakers are quickly sending reasonably priced EVs down the pipeline, and startups like Coulomb and ...READ»

Alternative Fuels & Vehicles Conference

Half of all car purchases in 2035 are predicted to be alternative-fuel vehicles. But until then, we're about as green as the 378 million gallons of gas our cars guzzle daily. Despite programs like Cash for Clunkers, nearly 98% of ...READ»

Oakland: Zero-Emission Public Transit [Fast Cities 2010]

Buses and trains may trump cars on the carbon front, but for true sustainability, why not power public transit with alternative fuels? AC Transit has three hybrid-electric, hydrogen fuel-cell buses up and running in Oakland and ...READ»

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What Will an Electric Vehicle-Ready Smart Grid Infrastructure Look Like?

It's 2020. You drive your plug-in hybrid electric car home at 6 p.m., plug it in, let it charge via the solar panels on your roof or the wind power coming from the grid, and you leave it charging until the morning. Sounds simple ...READ»

Chevy's Volt Minivan to Electrify Beijing Auto Show Next Week

After billions of dollars in losses, numerous production problems with the upcoming Chevrolet Volt PHEV, and the recent announcement that GM's director of global battery systems engineering is leaving, GM could stand to catch a ...READ»

Honda Insight NY Area Dealership is Poised to Become Volume Leader

Honda Insight NY customers will benefit greatly from the recent arrival of many Honda Insight models to Huntington Honda. The arrivals mean Huntington Honda is sure to become the volume leader and customers will get an exciting promotion.READ»

Honda Insight NJ Shoppers Searching for Great Deals on 2010 Insight: Search No More

Honda Insight NJ buyers are thrilled with the new pricing set by automotive dealership Garden State Honda on the 2010 Honda Insight.READ»

NRC: Improving Fuel Economy of Buses and Trucks Is Easy

Trucks, buses, and tractor trailers are some of the biggest gas guzzlers around. You might think, then, that improving the fuel economy of these hulking vehicles would be difficult. But according to a recently released report from ...READ»

What Do Obama's New Fuel Economy and Emissions Standards Mean for Automakers?

After decades of hemming and hawing, the U.S. government has finally hashed out concrete fuel economy and emissions standards for cars and light trucks. The new rules, generated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ...READ»

Volkswagen Unveils Its First Hybrid

Fast Company talks with VW's chiefs of engineering and design about the 2011 Touareg Hybrid.READ»

Test Driving the Chevy Volt [Video]

First impressions of GM's much-ballyhooed electric car of the future.READ»

Honda switching batteries to save space and weight; Should be in new Miami Hondas in 2-3 years.

According to a new Bloomberg interview with Honda Executive VP Koichi Kondo, Honda will begin using Lithium Ion batteries in the Honda Civic hybrid within 2-3 years. READ»

Porsche Confirms That It Plans to Build the 918 Plug-In Hybrid Spyder Supercar

Remember that sexy plug-in hybrid Porsche 918 Spyder supercar we drooled over last week? Apparently, we weren't the only ones with eyes for the Spyder. Porsche received such a positive response to the Spyder concept at the Geneva ...READ»