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Thursday, Oct 29
Toyota Engineers Unique Flower Species to Absorb Prius Manufacturing Emissions
Toyota, who's Prius is easy on the environment to drive but horrible on it to make, has engineered a new type of flower to help shoulder some of the damage their factories are spitting out.
Monday, Jul 20
Giant Flowers Give You Free Power, Wi-Fi, Make You Feel Like Alice In Wonderland
Toyota is planting giant 18-feet Solar Flowers all across major cities in the United States. It's all a Prius marketing campaign, but as long as they give me free power and Wi-Fi, I'm game.
Tuesday, Jun 23
The 2010 Toyota Prius...Hearse
Still, this Toyota Prius Hearse plans to unleash its green yuppie fury on Japan's funeral circuit. For just $80,000 a pop, you too can ride around (rotting) in the finest of posthumous eco luxury. According to a rough translation and some metric conversion, it looks like this supersized Pr...
Tuesday, May 20
Used Cars Are More Eco-Friendly Than Hybrids?
Energy It Takes To Build Prius 113,000 BTUs 113,000 BTUs In Gasoline 1,000 gallons Distance Driven to Break Even For Build Cost 46,000 miles Time Needed For Average Driver to Hit 46,000 Miles Over 3 Years Distance Driven to Break Even with 1998 Toyota Tercel* 100,000 miles
Wednesday, May 14
These Prius Solar Panels Should Come Standard
While the Prius is more practical than high efficiency solar vehicles, why not add some solar to the Prius anyway? This solar kit from SEV seamlessly installs onto a Prius' roof and claims to add up to 20 miles per day of electric mode driving/increase fuel economy up to 29%. Compatible with...
Sunday, Apr 27
Hymotion Prius Plug-in Conversion Kit Gives 100+ MPG For Short Distances
Like the previously released EDrive kit, this Hymotion Prius conversion package lets you convert your stock Prius into one that can be plugged in for charging. After a 4.5 hour charge time, your Prius will be able to use more battery power over about 30-40 miles in order achieve that mileage.
Monday, Dec 24
Prius Turns 10 Years Old [Cars]
Hard to believe the face of green cars, the Prius, is 10 years old this month. And it's still so slow. Here, mod yours with a switch to run in purely-EV Stealth mode. [Make and Gizmag]
Tuesday, Oct 30
100 California Households Get to Test Drive Plug-In Priuses [Plug And Chug]
While they're not getting behind the wheel of the 2009 plug-in Toyota Prius Popular Mechanics took for a spin, 100 households in Northern California are going to put rubber to asphalt next year in the first large-scale consumer test of plug-in hybrids in the country. The 100 green guinea p...
Wednesday, Oct 24
2009 Toyota Prius Prototype Plugs In, But NiMh Batteries Stick Around [Plug And Chug]
Popular Mechanics took a prototype plug-in 2009 Prius for a short test drive, which might be the first PHEV to market. The Prius they ran around still uses the Prius's current nickel-metal hydride battery packs—a pair, actually, with the charging system jimmied in between them—though T...
Monday, Jun 4
Roundups: EcoModo - The Best of TreeHugger
Because two hybrid stories are better than one: a plug-in Prius that can average over 125 miles to the gallon has been unveiled by the Lithium Technology Corporation. This has been made possible by the company's new lithium iron phosphate cells, the largest available on the market, coupl...
Wednesday, Mar 7
Hybrid Concepts From Toyota and Honda Roll Out at Geneva Auto Show
Both of these concepts stick with the combination of internal combustion engine and electric motor, but we were hoping for plug-in models, or completely electric cars such as the Tesla Roadster. Honda Small Hybrid Sports Concept and Toyota Hybrid X Concept [Jalopnik]
Wednesday, Feb 14
Toyota Teases With Upcoming Hybrid Concept
Toyota, you're such a tease. Unveiling the second of two of your latest hybrid vehicle prototypes at the Geneva Motor Show this month, and all you're showing us is this quarter shot of its ass end. So far, this Prius successor is called the Hybrid X, and it's said to have ideas that are so new the...
Wednesday, Feb 15
Toyota Hybrid Sports Car by 2008?
Continuing the phenomenal sales momentum of the Prius is the order of the day for Toyota, and brother site Jalopnik tells us the car company is working on another hybrid, this one a sports car with a midships engine that may appear sometime around 2008. The all-wheel-drive sportsmobile ma...
