Finally some positive news about Toyota! The Japanese automaker announced on Tuesday that its global cumulative sales of hybrid vehicles has crested the 3 million mark. Between 1997 and last month, 3.03 million hybrid Toyotas were sold worldwide, cementing gas-electric hybrids as a long-lasting mainstream automotive technology. The company’s very first hybrid, launched in Japan [...]
The Hybrid Cars blog is reporting today on a story about Kelly Blue Book (KBB), advising that now might be the right time to purchase a used hybrid. While the folks at Hybrid Cars want to remind us all that saving money on gas is just one of the many reasons to purchase a hybrid [...]
Big news in the green car world today. Tesla Motors called a press conference earlier this evening to announce their new joint project: building an electric car in cooperation with Toyota. The text of the complete press release follows: May 20, 2010 – Palo Alto, California, U.S.A. — Tesla Motors, Inc. (Tesla) and Toyota Motor [...]
There’s no denying that, as much as those of us who are pro-environment want it to happen, it’s going to take years – perhaps even decades – before electric cars become de rigueur on American highways. Consumer adoption takes time, after all, and we have a LOT of consumers here. As translated by Hybrid Cars, [...]
Hybrid Cars reported earlier this month that Ford is about to become the third automaker to lose its federal tax incentives for gas-electric hybrid cars. Toyota’s tax credits for hybrids went away at the end of 2007, and Honda’s hybrid credits ended at the beginning of last year. Those tax credits were part of a [...]