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Consumer Reports Says EVs Less Reliable Than Traditional Automobiles

The Truth About Cars

Plug-in hybrids were even worse with 146 percent more issues. However, standard hybrids actually outperformed every other group with 26 percent fewer problems than vehicles wholly reliant on gasoline. But it also left your author wondering why standard hybrids weren’t seeing the same number of problems.

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Toyota Prius T Spirit 2009 road test

Green Cars News

The world’s first mass market hybrid car first went on sale in Europe in 2000. Three years later came the second-generation Prius, and 2009 sees the arrival of the third. Toyota Prius lease prices Toyota Prius new and nearly new car prices. Read the full Toyota Prius T Spirit 2009 road test.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

By about 2000, BYD had become one of the worlds largest manufacturers of cellphone batteries. They generate fewer greenhouse gas emissions than cars that burn gasoline, and they have lower fuel costs, even when oil is cheap. Electric cars will be one answer. "Their cars are way behind Toyota, for sure," Sokol admits.

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