Baua Electric

APRIL 20, 2024

This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending April 19, 2024. In a first drive of the 2025 Toyota Camry hybrid , we found that the hybrid system blends into the background—just like the rest of the car, which has now appropriately gone all-hybrid.

Camry Hybrid 52

Camry Hybrid Highlander Prius Hybrid 52

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

They use cheap, clean, and domestic electricity for short trips and daily commutes, displacing or eliminating oil consumption and CO2 pollution. What changes do we make to convert a gasoline-only hybrid to a Plug-In Hybrid? Our goal: Get car makers to build Bettah PHEVs than we can convert ourselves.

PHEV 49

PHEV Prius Gasoline-Electric Plug-in 49

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Virtually any car, truck or bus can be made or redesigned as a long-range PHEV. There are trucks and buses being converted commercially today. In fact, the optimized PHEV is much more efficient as a long range liquid fuel vehicle, because the engine is downsized. It is only a matter of economics motivated by incentives or taxes.

PHEV 150

PHEV Plug-in Renewable Energy 150

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. Several aftermarket companies and organizations have converted hundreds of Priuses -- see Where PHEVs Are.) 1,000 pre-orders for small production runs in 2009 and 2010starting 4th quarter 2009.

Plug-in 45

Plug-in Plug Hybrid Lithium Ion 45

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

The more efficient combustion engine technologies, with their enabling of downsizing, come in compatibly with hybridization, with hybridization and electrification playing a larger role over time. The further downsized next-generation technologies can be very synergistic within hybrid applications. Planning background.

Fuel Economy 186

Fuel Economy Economy Ford Downsizing 186