Toyota Prius News

For many buyers, the Toyota Prius is to hybrid vehicles what Xerox is to photocopies: a synonym and an archetype.

The Toyota Prius hybrid was the bestselling vehicle in California during the first quarter of this year, narrowly outpacing Honda's redesigned Accord sedan.

For the second consecutive year, Jaguar managed to take the first place in the What Car? 2013 UK Vehicle Ownership Satisfaction Study in association with J.D. Power.

Chevrolet Volt vs Ford C-Max Hybrid vs Honda Insight vs Toyota Prius Review by Jeff Wilson, Michael Bettencourt and Peter Bleakney Photos by Ryan Edwardson and Jeff Wilson The concept for this test was simple: assemble a collection of the most common and arguably the best hybrid cars available in Canada and pit them against each other in a brutal, ... (more)

Ford's newest C-Max is the ultimate plug-in gasoline-electric hatchback for fuel- and environmentally conscious drivers yearning for something new.

Syndicate Taxi bought the Toyota Prius earlier this month, said Jaswinder Singh, whose family owns the company, for both the environmental benefits and gas mileage.

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For reference and clarification, by "electric" I hereby mean both pure electric cars and those accompanied by an on-board generator, such as the Chevrolet Volt or the upcoming BMW i3.

Global car giant Toyota Motor Corporation will consider launching more small cars and entering fast growing segments like compact SUVs in order to achieve market leadership in India.

The Chevrolet Spark all-electric subcompact car will cost U.S. buyers as much as 38 percent less than what it takes to buy its larger sibling, the hybrid Volt, General Motors Co said on Thursday.

Hybrid car owners would pay a special fee to recoup lost gasoline taxes under the state Senate's budget.

Associate online editor Carol Ngo spotted this unknown prototype on her way in to our El Segundo office today.

Sometime in the next few weeks, the 100,000th plug-in electric car will be sold in the U.S. But they're still mostly a mystery to the average new-car buyer, and there are a few key principles that get shared over and over again.

The automotive industry is full of rivalries, from Ferrari versus Lamborghini to Ford's recent war on the Toyota Prius .

John is Senior Editor for High Gear Media. In addition to news coverage and new car reviews, John creates and oversees all editorial for High Gear's... More Now, though, as hybrids and plug-in cars are slowly growing their share of the market, Prius sales have fallen--not just as a share of the "alternative powertrain" segment, but in raw numbers.

The Toyota model which use the lithium-ion batteries are the Prius Plug-in Hybrid, the RAV4 EV and the European Prius+. The automaker plans to increase production of the lithium ion batteries sixfold and according to Nikkei newspaper, the automaker and its production partner Panasonic aim at building a production line with a capacity of 20,000 ... (more)

In heavy rotation for the new Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid is a 30-second TV spot in which an RV passes a Japanese manufactured hybrid.

In 2005, three years after the Mini Cooper's surprisingly strong debut in the United States, brand executives wondered how many more buyers there could be for a 12-foot car.

Toyota Motor Corp is planning to increase production of lithium-ion batteries by six times, as the automaker prepares to eventually use them in its flagship Prius gasoline-electric hybrid cars, the Nikkei business daily reported on Sunday.

Sometime in the next few weeks, the 100,000th plug-in electric car will be sold in the U.S. But they're still mostly a mystery to the average new-car buyer, and there are a few key principles that get shared over and over again.