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Given that the 2013 Avalon shares a platform with the new Lexus ES, this news should come as no surprise: Toyota's largest sedan is getting its own hybrid variant for the first time ever. Judging by these first photos, carspotters will have to squint hard to tell that they're looking at a hybrid, ...

Something there is that doesn't love waiting for the Toyota Yaris Hybrid. Rumors of this vehicle have swirled around for a long while and today Toyota finally released the first official pictures of the production Yaris Hybrid. There are only three, but they show – wait for it – a ...

In 2014, Lotus plans to offers a production version of it $179,000 Elite coupe concept to the public (well, to the members of the public with a pile of unwanted cash, anyway). Lotus has dished out a load of details about its Elite prior to its official unveiling in ...

Daimler AG, parent company of Mercedes-Benz, has been developing its own hybrid technology for years, but the company's products reportedly can't match the hybrid tech found in Toyota's lineup of gas-electric vehicles. ...

Like a record that constantly skips, each and every month the sales figure for hybrid models are released and we look to see which one takes top honors once again – time after time, the results replay and ...

Toyota is no stranger to being first – Japanese luxury vehicles and hybrids chief among them. Although Acura may have launched earlier, Lexus remains the only Japanese luxury marque to market in Japan. And having ...

Over the last ten years or so, Toyota has amassed a wide-ranging assortment of more than 2,000 patents related to its proprietary Hybrid Synergy Drive. That's an impressive figure to be sure, and it's also a possible source of income ...

Toyota isn't holding a press conference at the LA Auto Show this year, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have anything to show. The Prius purveyors have built a CNG-fueled Camry hybrid. According to Toyota spokesperson Jana Hartline, ...

Here's an intriguing question: Who invented the hybrid drivetrain? Was it Toyota with its seminal and ridiculously popular Prius? Or, maybe it was Honda, which beat Toyota to market in the United States with its initial Insight hybrid car. ...