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?

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

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

Can the hybrid version appeal where TDI has not? Can hybrid technology lift VW’s US sales? Back in college an old girlfriend drove a Volkswagen Jetta. I loved it, although I was glad I had the privilege of just driving it, not owning it. That Jetta seemed to need more servicing than normal, and it was always expensive. Still, it was fun to drive. Then again, when you don’t own…

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Will VW’s Jetta hybrid succeed where the TDI has failed?

The larger V couldn't lift Prius sales much in January A 20 percent improvement should feel better than this One might assume that a 20 percent improvement in Toyota’s hybrid sales, led by an 8.6 percent gain in Prius sales, is a great hybrid sale’s story compared to last year. It certainly …

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Toyota’s great hybrid sale’s month foretells a cautionary tale

Price premium for that lifetime battery guarantee? Just a hybrid marketing ploy? Last month we covered Hyundai’s lifetime Sonata hybrid battery warranty that guarantees that Hyundai will replace the lithium-ion battery pack in the Sonata hybrid and replace it, if needed. Then, however, we weren’t sure if that warranty would be transferable. Unfortunately, the warranty is …

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Priceless? Hyundai lifetime hybrid battery guarantee nontransferable

VW taking microhybrid leadership to full hybrids soon 39 million micro-hybrids in the next five years New analysis by Lux Research suggests hybrid vehicles have a much bigger interim future than most might expect, especially here in America. Unfortunately, that future is driven by micro-hybrids, but at least that’s still a bit of an improvement. …

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Forget plug-ins and the Prius. It’s a mirco-hybrid world by 2017

The world's best selling car Forget just US sales, let’s think worldwide Before the end of this decade, Toyota believes the Prius family will outsell the Camry. Whatever. Why not shoot for the moon? Within this decade, could a car like the Prius C help the family outsell the Corolla, and I mean in terms of total worldwide sales? I must admit even the idea …

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Forget Camry sales: Could the Prius be Toyota’s next Corolla?