2010 Nissan Altima: Maxima-ized, For Your Pleasure [New Cars]

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Published Sept. 30, 2009 at 4:20 p.m.
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The 2010 Nissan Altima may look a bit more like the new Maxima, but it's still the same old Altima underneath, albeit with a slightly tweaked interior, new electronics and a $19,900 starting price ...

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Subaru Hybrid Tourer Concept: An Electrically-Styled Wagon [Tokyo Motor Show]

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Published Sept. 30, 2009 at 8:00 a.m.
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Wagons are Subaru's bread-and-butter, so a wagon-like tourer concept isn't a radical departure. Even the AWD-ready dual electric-motor setup makes sense. What does stand out from the Tokyo-bound Hybrid Tourer Concept is the modern, attractive design ...

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Fisker Granted $528 Million Loan By Feds To Develop “Low-Cost” Plug-In Hybrid [Industry News]

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Published Sept. 22, 2009 at 5:00 p.m.
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The DoE just gave Fisker a $528 million loan, part of which will bring the Fisker Karma to market in 2010, while most will go to Project NINA, a $39,900 (after tax credits) plug-in hybrid. [Fisker] ...

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Prius Plug-in Hybrid Coming to US

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Published Sept. 10, 2009 at 2:26 p.m.
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The Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) will be coming to the US in limiited numbers (150 in lease-fleet) for testing and marketing purposes ... 350 other plug-in Prius models will be delivered in late 2009 across the globe ... The demonstration fleet will be placed in 'strategic clusters' to create and evaluate various driving scenarios ... The clusters will also be chosen based on a consideration of communications and charging structures ... Toyota will be gathering customer

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Toyota Brings Plug-in Prius and Hybrid Auris to Frankfurt

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Published Sept. 1, 2009 at 12:48 p.m.
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Toyota announced they will be bringing the plug-in Prius and the Auris HSD Full Hybrid Concept to the Frankfurt Motor Show for its world premier ... The Plug-in Prius will begin leasing in early 2010 to select fleet customers ... Toyota will be overseeing the field trials of over 150 units ... The Auris HSD Full hybrid concept vehicle will contain all of the elements of a full hybrid vehicle inside a mainstream model ... Toyota says this is the first step in the deployment of their Hybrid

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Buick To Get First Plug-In Hybrid SUV [New Cars]

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Published Aug. 6, 2009 at 9:30 a.m.
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GM just announced plans to give the outgoing Saturn Vue a facelift for Buick and introduce it as a plug-in 2-mode hybrid. It'll use Volt-like batteries and run 10 miles on electricity only, making it the first plug-in hybrid SUV ... The speculation on the future of the Vue platform in the face of the Saturn brand's impending death has been announced, and it's going to Buick. It won't be just a shave and haircut though, it'll also be introduced with the previously announced plug-in 2-mode hybrid

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Hybrid Car Wars: Honda Insight Vs. Ford Fusion Hybrid [Jalopnik Reviews]

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Published July 1, 2009 at 11:00 a.m.
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The 2010 Toyota Prius is tops in fuel economy. But what if that's not your only motivating factor? Maybe the 2010 Honda Insight or the 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid's what you're looking for. But which is better? Let's find out ... Seriously, we've driven all three and the new Prius makes these two cars look bad when it comes to fuel economy. Now a mid-size, it rivals the Fusion for space, practicality and driving dynamics, and starting at $21,000 it even gets close to the Insight on price. It does

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Hyundai LPI Elantra Hybrid

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Published June 17, 2009 at 8:02 a.m.
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Hyundai has begun receiving pre-launch orders for its Elantra LPI Hybrid Electric Vehicle, its first commercial hybrid in South Korea ... Pre-orders will end July 7, a day before it officially introduces the car in the Korea domestic market ... The hybrid electric vehicle is powered by a Liquefied Petroleum Injected (LPI) engine ... The LPI Gamma engine has a displacement of 1.6 liters, a 15kW (105 Nm) electric motor and a Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT) ... Together, the engine emits

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First Look: Ferrari’s Upcoming AWD Hybrid Concept [Alternative Energy]

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Published June 9, 2009 at 2:00 p.m.
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European patent filings already show us how Modena plans to use hybrid technology for performance instead of economy. Now we know when. Reports indicate a gas/electric Ferrari Hybrid may show itself at this year's LA Auto Show. Let's peek inside ... These six patent filings are variations on a theme, with the constant thread being a gas engine powering the rear wheels separately from an electric motor or motors driving the front wheels. While such an arrangement will necessarily bring with it

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Solar Human Hybrid Combines Muscle With Sun [I Feel Gassy]

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Published June 1, 2009 at 4:15 p.m.
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As ominous as the Solar Human Hybrid Project might sound, it's just a solar and human powered quadracycle, a cool project for the 8th grade class in California's Novato Charter School on display at Make Magazine 's "Maker Faire." ... The novel hippy-cycle goes by a shorter name, the SOHH Project, and combines a bit of muscle with a little electrical power for a neat end result. It's certainly not a gee-whiz parallel or inline hybrid from one of the big three, but it is garage-built

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