hybrid car

Yo-Avto, the joint venture owned by Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov's Onexim Group and by Yarovit Motors, has broken ground on a factory for its hybrid vehicles in St. Petersburg, Russia. The facility is being built in the Maryino Industrial Park area of St. Petersburg and, once ...

Despite the fact that the national average price of gasoline hit $4 a gallon last week, Jeff Bartlett, Consumer Reports deputy online automotive editor, says that now's the worst time to buy a hybrid vehicle. Why's that? Well, as Bartlett explains, many owners of gas-guzzling SUVs are ditching ...

The 2012 Honda Civic Hybrid is officially rated at 44/44/44 city/highway/combined, but the folks over at Hybrid Cars have squeezed 68.7 mpg out of their test unit. By using some hypermiling techniques on a ten-mile course consisting of country lanes, some light highway motoring and with a ...

After two lackluster years, the second-generation Honda Insight is starting to see a surge in sales. Soaring gas prices, along with Honda's "The Really Big Thing" advertising campaign, boosted sales of the Insight to 2,782 units in March, a 62.2 percent increase compared to the same month last ...

The launch of vehicles like the Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf has stirred up a debate over battery longevity. Critics say battery output will degrade and cite outrageous replacement costs as a possible downside to these breakthrough machines. Well, it turns out that skeptics posed similar ...

In this year's State of the Union address, President Obama proclaimed that there would be one million electric vehicles on the road in the United States by 2015. Toyota recently celebrated the building of the company's three millionth hybrid worldwide. More and more automakers are turning to the ...

Set to debut at the Geneva Motor Show in March, the Porsche Panamera S Hybrid will come to the party packing a combined 380 horsepower. A total of 333 of those horses will be churned out by the Panamera's supercharged ...

We're all aware that Toyota's dominance in the hybrid segment is unmatched, but if a report posted in the Wall Street Journal turns out to be true, then we should expect the gas-electric champ to further bolster its industry-leading lineup with the addition of two new variants of the best-selling ...

One month of dreary sales does not spell the end of the hybrid, but the numbers reported for August do hint that without a rise in gas prices, sales of hybrid cars and trucks will likely continue to suffer. As a whole, hybrid sales ...

For a time back in 2008, it looked like hybrid vehicles were going to break through and start grabbing some serious market share. Unfortunately, the combination of the global economic collapse, falling oil prices and the end ...