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Toyota Confirms US Launch of Compact Lexus Hybrid

Toyota officials last week confirmed that the Lexus CT 200h, a premium hybrid hatchback, is coming to the United States, according to a report in Automotive News. The Lexus CT 200h would be Lexus’s first compact car, and the first compact hybrid sold by Toyota in the US. The car was unveiled at the Geneva [...]

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Honda’s CR-Z Joins U.S. Hybrid Derby

Honda Motor Co.’s new CR-Z sporty hybrid is the car that nearly wasn’t. The wedge-shaped, two-seat hatchback was almost killed twice because engineers weren’t convinced it was a unique concept and because U.S. bosses originally didn’t want it. When Norio Tomobe was appointed chief engineer of the project in the summer of 2004, the car [...]

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Fisker says 100,000 plug-in hybrids a year could be built at Delaware plant

Fisker Automotive CEO Henrik Fisker gave a presentation at the New Castle County Chamber of Commerce’s annual dinner Monday night about his compnay’s plans to build plug-in vehicles (PHEVs) in Delaware. Over 450 people from the community where Fisker’s new plant (and General Motors’ old plant) is located heard Fisker speak about the Karma and [...]

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Study Says Big Impact of the Plug-In Hybrid Will Be Decades Away

Despite recent excitement about a type of electric car called a plug-in hybrid, such vehicles are unlikely to arrive in meaningful numbers for a few more decades, according to new analysis by the National Research Council. The study, released on Monday, also found that the next generation of plug-in hybrids could require hundreds of billions [...]

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Volvo C30 Electric Car

Volvo has now released more details of the all-electric C30 concept car it will launch at next week’s 2010 Detroit Auto Show. We covered early details a couple of weeks ago; here’s the rest of the story on the little electric hatchback with no tailpipe. The electric C30 concept car will let the Swedish automaker [...]

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