plug-in prius

Stop us if you've heard this one: Toyota has just launched a campaign to have voters decide on the accepted plural of the word Prius. Sound familiar? It should – well over a year ago, Toyota was knee-deep in this same exact campaign. In case you don't recall, popular vote favored Prii. ...

Toyota says it expects U.S. sales of its Prius Plug-in to hit at least 16,000 in 2012. Toyota spokesman, John Hanson, told Bloomberg News that:

If the idea of getting around 83 or 87 miles per gallon in a plug-in Prius suits your fancy, then get ready to give Toyota your pertinent details on Earth Day. That's this Friday, by the way. Today, Toyota announced it will open up a "Priority Registration Web Site" for the Prius Plug-In in ...

The Toyota Prius has done it. What's that, you ask? Well, it set tons of records, many of which may never be challenged. We're not talking "real" records. More like the "craziest, most entertainingest, smartest and funnest" records ever attempted in and around a Prius. The goal: "to set as many ...

If you don't have the patience to grow your fingernails to insane lengths – or just don't like Irish beer – then forget the Guinness World Records and head on over to the home of "world records" for bored Facebook users, the Universal Record Database (URDB). I mean, we're talking ...

Want some data sharing with your car sharing? On Thursday, Zipcar added eight Toyota Prius plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) to its car-sharing fleet. The plug-in Priuses, which are not available for purchase until 2012, will be accessible to Zipcar members in Boston, MA, Cambridge, MA, San Francisco, CA, ...

Back in June, Inside Line rung out the Plug-in Prius prototype and managed a mere 62 miles per gallon. In September, the California Center for Sustainable Energy revealed that its Prius PHV returned a much more remarkable ...

When Inside Line tested the Plug-in Prius in June, the team got around 62 miles per gallon over 500 or so miles. That's good, but not that much better than you can do with careful driving in a standard 2010 Toyota ...

Aside from the Chevy Volt and the upcoming Toyota Prius PHEV, few plug-in hybrids (PHEV) make headlines. There could be a few reasons for this, but the likely culprit is the momentum being gained by electric vehicles. The EV ...