Cheapest to own hybrid after 5 year according to KBB Best hybrid and plug-in deals after 5 years of ownership Kipplingers, Forbes, Intellichoice, Consumer Reports, US News & World Reports, etc. have all offered up best and most cost-effective vehicle lists in recent months, and it’s sometimes a little surprising the lack of consensus. …

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KBB picks: Honda Insight, Ford Escape hybrid and Chevy Volt

Are we closer to 100 mpg gasoline cars than we think? Couldn’t it also be a hybrid? The other day I read a piece on AutoWeek slamming an idea from a Republican Congressman that I’ve never heard of that is apparently part of an evil plan by the entire Republican…

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Is $1 billion for a 100 mpg gasoline sedan an evil Republican plot?

Light, cheap and fuel efficient city hybrids The Prius C is just scratching the surface of cheap hybrid cars Today’s small cars are already far safer than in the past. Add advanced software and telematics and small car safety will be a non-issue in the not-so-far off future. That will make lightening the…

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Toyota ramping up streamlined, much cheaper hybrid production

Revenge of the hydrogen fuel cell? Are rising oceans and a lack of fresh water a solution within a problem? Back in the early 2000’s I received an early copy of Jeremy Rifkin’s The Hydrogen Economy and my mind was bent. It wasn’t just the potential of fuel cells that made the book so intriguing, but rather the argument of why change away from petroleum was …

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Platinum? Not needed for fuel cells or hydrogen catalyzing

Go ahead and hate me for being intelligent and responsible What’s the cost of not taking action? Sure, the buyers of hybrid and electric cars don’t always make the most cost-effective choices, but many times their choices are best, even financially. For example, many hybrid cars make the best city cars and they can be far more …

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Hybrid and electric car buyers are just better

Highlander hybrid production coming to the US Another step to cheaper hybrids? Toyota will invest $400 million in its Highlander plant in Indiana so that it can begin manufacturing the Highlander hybrid there in 2013 for US sales and to export to the rest of the world. Is US Prius production next? Before the recession and global economic slowdown, Toyota had planned to bring at least some Prius production to the …

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Following the Highlander hybrid: Is US Prius production next?

The subcompact cost-effective king for city drivers It’s official. C hybrid should dominate city cost effectiveness So, you need a new car, and you live in a city like Los Angeles, but you want to be as fiscally smart as possible. It’s all about the most bang for your buck. Of course, aside from automatic windows, locks and …

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Urban Champ: New Toyota Prius C offers outstanding value

Are you ready for $4.00 gasoline? Add any escalation in Middle East tensions and much higher gasoline prices are possible As comes summer so to does an increase in American driving, as gasoline is reformulated into summer blends. Combined these two events push gasoline prices higher in a regular seasonal…

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Thinking about a hybrid? $4.00 gas almost certain by May

Is this real American, Big 3 leadership? Is the Big 3 really any better than Big oil? We build what Americans want. That’s the mantra US automakers tout regarding their over-dependence upon gas-guzzling pickup trucks time and time again. So, what about the other 50 percent of America? LOL! We …

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Pro-American? The Big 3 plan for US energy independence

Is fracking inherently so much more dangerous than foreign oil dependence? The new world order of energy? If you attended the recent Deloitte & Touche oil and gas conference in Houston, you were left with one realization, according to Bob Lutz of BMW, Chrysler, Ford, and GM fame: US energy independence is now a potential reality. Thanks to an …

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Lutz: Peak oil, global warming myths; electrification real

Plug-in Prius too rationale for electrification hype OPUD: Over-promising and under-delivering the battery-powered future I find it terribly unsettling how often fans of electrification ridicule Toyota. They don’t even use lithium in their conventional hybrid cars, they claim. As if all the lithium powered mild hybrids, full hybrids, plug-in hybrids and electric cars on the…

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Lithium revolution dependent upon Toyota and hybrid cars

Volt 2.0: How would you re-Volt GM's key plug-in? Built for change, but how much change? Early in Chevy Volt production, many things were possible. For instance, GM suggested a non-plug-in Volt, a Volt that utilized super-capacitors rather than batteries, as well as a Volt that replaced its electric range extending engine with a range extending fuel cell. Likewise…

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Chevy Volt 2.0: How would you change GM’s plug-in?