Hybrid Vehicles News

The Toyota Camry Hybrid is part of Toyota's long-term plan to offer hybrid versions of virtually every model it sells.

Everyone, including this year's presidential candidates, agrees that America needs to wean itself off foreign oil.

General Motors Corp. is likely to announce further production cuts and possible plant closures as early as next week as it deals with slumping sales and a collapse in its stock price, a person with knowledge of ...

The price per gallon can seen on a sign as Rick Long of Elk Township, N.J. delivers gasoline from his tanker truck to a gas station in Pennsauken, N.J., Wednesday, Oct.

Like the original 1970 Dodge Challenger, the 2009 revival arrives as fuel economy concerns have rendered it an anathema to those who think we should all use rickshaws for personal transportation.

Are new, smaller Prius models on the horizon? Toyota is considering setting up a separate brand for Prius, and may broaden the Prius lineup with bigger and smaller Prius models, the head of Toyota's American ...

The head of Johnson Controls Inc's battery unit believes China could adopt electric cars faster than elsewhere because of its size and comparative lack of reliance on gasoline for transport.

Photos of the production Chevrolet Volt have leaked onto the Internet just a week before the Volt's formal introduction to the world on September 16th as part of GM's Centennial celebration.

From left, 6th District Republican incumbent Roscoe Bartlett, Libertarian candidate Gary Hoover and Democratic candidate Jennifer Dougherty.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday pledged 400 million euros in state support for the development of electric and hybrid cars.

Automakers will find it's too expensive to keep investing in a wide range of clean car technologies and are expected to focus their efforts on bringing electric cars to the mass market, the head of Johnson ...

Plummeting car sales, climate change, high oil prices and the threat of global recession.

Hybrid electric vehicles and electric vehicles are part of the new breed of environmentally-friendly vehicles that accelerate the transition from complete dependency on oil-based fuels to advanced EV ...

With an electric MINI Cooper just around the bend, a Twin Drive hybrid Volkswagen landing in 2010 and Chevrolet's Volt rolling into showrooms in a matter of months, Audi's ten-year plan is looking a little ...

Recent reports of global warming have made environmentalism a hot topic. People everywhere are looking for ways to be more friendly to the Earth.

Local car enthusiasts are looking to the past as they get charged up about a future with electric cars.

It will be years before demand for hybrid cars in the United States and Europe is big enough for battery manufacturers to make money from that business, but electric cars are nevertheless poised to dominate the ...

An image model of the BMW 5 Series used in a study on seeing car 'faces.' The BMW ranked high on the 'power' scale.

Ford - along with utilities Southern California Edison, the Electric Power Research Institute , DTE and battery-maker Johnson Controls/Saft - has been working on its plug-in hybrid Escape program for a long ...

BAE Systems today introduced an improved version of its hybrid propulsion system that can be used on multiple bus platforms, is mechanically simpler, reduces maintenance costs, and makes possible the use of ...