by Dan Grey: MPGOmatic.com I can hear what you’re thinking … Volkswagen, selling a hybrid sedan? Aren’t VW’s fuel-efficient TDIs the best-selling passenger car diesels in America? Indeed they are, but VW faced a dilemma. The typical Toyota Prius owner, they say, rarely considers buying a diesel. So Volkswagen decided to build a hybrid of [...]

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At a quick glance, the Toyota RAV4 EV looks a lot like the gas-powered RAV4; however, upon closer inspection Toyota has done a lot to differentiate the two RAV4 models that serve very different purposes.   As noted in the video below, Toyota incorporated a more aerodynamic front-end design to the RAV4 EV, as well [...]

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by Zach McDonald: HybridCars.com Volkswagen has announced pricing for its forthcoming Jetta hybrid, which is scheduled to be released later this year. The car will come in four trim levels, with the base model carrying a price tag of $24,995 plus a $795 destination charge. The Jetta Hybrid is the most fuel-efficient model in the [...]

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With a slated launch date of mid-2014, the A3 e-Tron will be Audi’s first all-electric vehicle. Watch LAcarGUY’s Mike Sullivan describe highlights of the vehicle which include lithium ion batteries with a range of approximately 85 to a 100 miles per charge and 199 lb-ft of torque with zero pollutants. As the industry moves forward [...]

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by Zach McDonald — hybridcars.com It’s been a little more than two years since Toyota and Tesla shocked the automotive world by announcing their intention to work together on electric vehicles. At the time, the nature and extent of that cooperation were unclear, but just months later we learned that the two companies were hard [...]

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