This article has been reposted from EV Obsession with full permission. In an effort to boost its 2013 Prius Plug-In Hybrid sales, Toyota is reportedly offering discounts (or “financing funds”) of up to $5,000 on the PHEVs. There’s also a deal for regular Prius Hybrids, worth up to $4,000. … [continued]
Here’s some more electric vehicle and energy efficiency news from the past week or two: EVs If the EV stories we’ve published in the past couple weeks aren’t enough for you (and you don’t already follow Gas2), here are a bunch of consumer-oriented EV stories for you from our wonderful … [continued]
Ford seems to be doing rather well at the whole greener cars game — the number of dealers certified to sell plug-in electrified vehicles (hybrids, really, including the C-MAX Energi) has tripled to over 200 nationwide. […]
An enterprising New Jersey man used his Toyota Prius as a generator to run his home’s lights, laptops, and a television because he lost power due to the recent Sandy outages. For one week he used an inverter and some extension cords to produce power for his home while … [continued]
We just reported on the good October numbers for the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf yesterday, but they weren’t the only green (or greenish) cars that fared well last month. Chris DeMorro of Gas2 writes: “Is 2012 the year that alternative fuel vehicles finally come into their own? It’s … [continued]
Technically, the fun was just taken out of the name of Toyota’s electric city-car concept. When the company unveiled it last year, it was the Fun-Vii. Now, Toyota is calling it the iiMo, and there are a few more details about what they hope it will become. Most of what Toyota is … [continued]
Here’s some more clean transportation news from around the interwebs from the past week or so: Electric Vehicles Toyota’s Scion iQ EV Joins Car-Sharing Craze: “A new electric vehicle from Toyota, the he 2013 Scion iQ EV, is going to be used for urban and campus car-sharing programs. This is a battery-electric … [continued]
Bloomberg has reported on numbers provided in the California New Car Dealers Association’s California Auto Outlook report, which show that the Toyota Prius hybrid has passed Honda’s Civic and Accord vehicles to become the best-selling vehicle in California. According to the report, the Toyota Prius sold 46,380 models in … [continued]
Honda hybrid vehicles just surpassed the one million mark in sales at the end of September. According to Green Car Congress, this milestone took the Japanese car manufacturer nearly thirteen years (12 years and 11 months, to be exact) since its first hybrid car hit the roads of Japan in November … [continued]
The Chevy Volt is outselling over 50% of cars on the market. The Volt is one of Fox News’ favorite things to pick on (despite it essentially winning European Car of the Year), but that isn’t stopping people from buying it up, according to a recent study. While the … [continued]
