While Toyota has not announced any revised predictions for 2011 sales, the automaker announced today that it expects to sell more of it’s hybrid Prius cars by the end of the year than it did in 2010, despite setbacks in production after the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in early March. In some parts [...]
The folks at PlugInCars.com spoke with Fred Diaz, president and CEO of Chrysler’s stand-alone truck division, Ram, recently, and they were told that truckers simply aren’t interested in hybrids, and that once it has met the obligation to its government-funded program, the company will not be producing any more hybrid trucks. Here is the rest [...]
Hybrid Cars shared a story recently about a new study from Carnegie Mellon University, the results of which were released last week. According to the study, hybrids and diesel-powered vehicles are a better value than their gasoline-powered counterparts. While it’s common to evaluate cars based on their cost, and hybrids and diesels do tend to [...]
If you’re considering a new car before the year’s out, a hybrid might be your best bet, or at the very least you should be looking at cars that rate highly in terms of fuel efficiency. Why? Because experts are predicting that the price of gasoline might hit $3.00 by January. Just this past Monday [...]
According to HybridCars.com, the average garbage truck pulls up, stops, idles, loads and moves on between 300 and 1,200 times per day. Most of these trucks are fueled by diesel, and on a good day, they’ll manage about 4 or 5 mpg. We won’t even talk about the number of pollutants those trucks spew forth. [...]