College Students–Find Your Perfect First Car
If you want to simplify your college experience, having a reliable and affordable car can help greatly. It can be difficult to find a perfect first car that meets all your criteria.
Analysis: What’s the Best Way to Market EVs?
All of this made me think about of the differences in the way companies are introducing EVs into their product portfolios.
Road Test: 2018 Toyota Prius c
The 2018 Toyota Prius c is a highly citified small car and feels, in typical Toyota fashion, solidly built.
Feature: Toyota Aims for 2050 Environmental Goals
At a recent Toyota event, we had the chance to take the discussion to a higher level and talk about corporate environmental impacts. but it does come back to the cars.
News: Toyota Prius C Hybrid Bites the Dust
Prepare to say goodbye to Toyota’s smallest and cheapest hybrid, the Toyota Prius C. It’s being pushed aside to make way for the Corolla Hybrid, which is larger and offers better fuel economy.
Green Motorsports: A Toyota Prius Racing With A V-8 Engine
At January’s Tokyo Auto Salon, Toyota Racing Development (TRD) unveiled Toyota’s latest chapter in hybrid racing technology — the newest edition GT300 specification Prius
News: Prius Parade Sets Guinness Record
Toyota officially set a new Guinness World Record when 332 Prius lined up for a parade on Earth Day, the most hybrids ever lined up in a row.
Top 10 Hybrids That Will Really Save You Money
“Hybrid” has become a magic word that’s synonymous with fuel economy for many car buyers, thanks mainly to the Toyota Prius. The common assumption is that the hybrid version of a car will deliver great fuel economy–or at least better mpg than a comparable gas version, resulting in a more economical vehicle to own. While the fuel economy part of that line of thinking is correct, as you probably know, the total cost of owning a vehicle is much more than the cost of the fuel you put in it. In fact, according to some analysts, the fuel portion of vehicle ownership is only about one-fourth to one-fifth of the cost of owning a vehicle. So in spite of being more fuel efficient, not all hybrids save you money in the long run.
Top 10 Best-Selling High-MPG Cars in March 2013
High-mileage cars are off to a great start for the year with sales up 18% in these three categories in for the first three months of the year compared to last year. The monthly sales average continues to creep up so it is conceivable that sales could edge closer to a million units if the trend continues, which would definitely solidify the market for alternatives to conventional gasoline engines. The first quarter indicates it could be a very good year for high-MPG cars.
Top 10 Best-Selling High-MPG Cars in February 2013
MPG is still on consumers’ minds as car and truck sales of hybrids, plug-in cars and clean diesels continued to outpace the overall market in February 2012. High mileage hybrids, plug-ins and diesels had their second good month to begin the year, bettering the high bar set by the overall market. Hybrids continued to be above 3 percent of the market and both hybrids and diesels accelerated sales beyond a strong overall market (up 16.1% and 23.3% respectively compared to the overall market rise of 14.3%).