Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Toyota anticipates that the 2016 Prius ( earlier post ) will deliver fuel economy ratings of 54 MPG city / 50 MPG highway / 52 MPG combined. As in the third-generation Prius, the Toyota Hybrid Synergy Drive combines the output of a 1.8-liter As in the third-generation Prius, the Toyota Hybrid Synergy Drive combines the output of a 1.8-liter

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Get Ready for the Fifth Generation Prius. The Toyota Prius has come a long way since it debuted 22 years ago as the first hybrid car to be sold in the United States. Toyota pulled the sheet off the 2023 Prius before the media in Los Angeles on November 16. A sleeker look for next year’s Prius. seconds, which is 2.6

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 5, 2023

Flash Drive: 2023 Toyota Prius Prime PHEV Plug-in Hybrid Technology in an All-New Package Toyota is taking the lead suggesting how you should drive a plug-in hybrid. The all-new 2023 Prius Prime gets two less miles per gallon in hybrid mode than the 2022 model, but the all-electric driving range has increased substantially.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Flash Drive: 2023 Toyota Prius Hybrid. If new, improved and better are what make you happy in life, then the all-new 2023 Toyota Prius could be what you are looking for. Until then, this Flash Drive is an introduction to the 2023 Prius. Not the traditional Prius silhouette. The Top-Selling Hybrid Gets a Makeover.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 14, 2024

The Least Expensive Plug-in Hybrid in America Smart owners will quickly learn how to maximize the driving range and efficiency of the 2024 Toyota Prius Prime plug-in hybrid vehicle or PHEV. With the Prius Prime PHEV there is no such thing as range anxiety, so take that off your list for not wanting to buy an electrified car.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2009

To make the transaxle as longitudinally compact as possible, GM engineers specified concentrated windings for both electric motors. To make the transaxle as longitudinally compact as possible, GM engineers specified concentrated windings for both electric motors. Damper-Bypass Clutch.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2010

When wind or solar power is available, the charging rate can be increased to expand the use of renewable energy in the grid. During peak periods, the flow of energy can be delayed or slowed to shift the charging load off-peak—minimizing localized grid stress and ensuring service reliability.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2014

inverter used in the Fiat 500e has a volume of about 5 liters, while the motor inverter used in the 2010 Prius drivetrain has a volume of about 5.4L (according to a DOE deconstruction.) The peak power density of the 2010 Prius motor inverter is 11.1 Evaluation Of The 2010 Toyota Prius Hybrid Synergy Drive System (ORNL, 2011).

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: The Toyota Prius hybrid is once again California''s most popular car line, production of hte 2014 Honda Fit EV winds down, and we drive Nissan''s New York City "Taxi of Tomorrow." All this and more on Green Car Reports. The 2014 Honda Fit EV model year ends early as the last cars are built.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Next-generation lithium-ion battery power could allow for powering cars with clean energy from solar cells and from wind turbines. million hybrid vehicles since it launched the first-generation Prius in 1997. We think that another factor for the realization of this collaboration was that BMW showed interest in our battery technology.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2015

Results from the study also suggest that with sufficient coal plant retirement and sufficient wind power, controlled charging could result in positive net benefits instead of negative. Small Battery: For this scenario, they modified the base case so that the vehicle fleet is based on the Toyota Plug-in Prius.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2012

The new Yaris Hybrid, which is equipped with a version of the downsized hybrid powertrain featured in the Prius c/Aqua ( earlier post ), is a major step in the company’s full hybrid European roll-out strategy. The Yaris is Toyota’s best-selling core model in Europe, with the largest Unit in Operation fleet on European roads.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

The study modeled a conventional gasoline vehicle, conventional hybrid, two plug-in hybrids (one modeled on the 10-mile AER Prius PHV and one on the 35-mile AER Chevy Volt) and a battery-electric vehicles (modeled on the Tesla Model S).

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Plug In Partners

FEBRUARY 15, 2006

The average new car sold in the United States last year got 22 miles to the gallon, compared with 55 miles per gallon for the Toyota Prius. Using timers to recharge batteries with electricity coming from wind farms during the low demand hours between 1 and 6 a.m. Hybrids of the future For the U.S. This could cut U.S.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2014

Toyota has already sold more than 6 million hybrid road cars since the launch of the Prius in 1997. Extensive development in TMG’s state-of-the-art wind tunnels has resulted in an aerodynamically-efficient design which is also lightweight due to advanced composite design and production processes.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2011

Camry Hybrid and Prius family. Bob Carter, Group Vice President and General Manager, Toyota Division, Toyota Motor Sales, USA has said that in the future, the expanded Prius family will likely outsell Camry. However, for now: Later this decade, we do see Prius actually arriving closer to Camry volume and ultimately surpassing it.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2014

liter Prius engine and also 17 kg (37.5 And, third, the reduction of wind noise during high speed driving. The hybrid Yaris, which already accounts for a third of this model’s sales, was adapted to comply with the Euro 6 Standard and has benefited from adjustments that lowered its CO 2 emissions. lbs) lighter.

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Plug In Partners

FEBRUARY 6, 2006

That is because electric fuel can be provided by renewable energy such as the wind. They are similar to hybrids like the Toyota Prius, but they have bigger batteries and at night would be plugged into a standard 120-volt outlet to charge the batteries. that converted a regular Prius to a plug-in hybrid.

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Fleet Vehicles Plug-in Prius 100

Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2012

Levandowski showed a video of a narrow, winding CA road full of runners which they use for software development. The vehicle is capable of doing the entire commute autonomously but the team has decided to focus their efforts on improving highway performance. Construction zones and joggers provide special challenges.

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 5, 2008

Imagine for a moment that the world had rejected wind and solar energy, and instead decided to wait for a hydrogen fusion research program to reach fruition. Fortunately for the world, wind and solar are growing rapidly, while hydrogen fusion research remains speculative at best. The 2008 Toyota Prius is 242 g/mi today.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 27, 2009

Andy Frank makes the observation that parallel hybrids (Toyota Prius) are cheaper than series hybrids (Chevy Volt). The Prius is a parallel hybrid and Toyota plans to use a parallel hybrid architecture in its first plug-in hybrid. It’ll be interesting to see how their vehicles compare to all the rest in terms of efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2013

Chevy Spark, Ford Focus Electric, Honda Fit EV, Nissan LEAF, Toyota Prius), with the major exception of Tesla Motors, which uses an AC induction motor in the Model S (as it did in the Roadster as well), and Toyota, with its Tesla-designed electric powertrain.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2012

Current average Ontario electricity generation mix, based on the Province’s 2010 electrical energy output by fuel type, which was 55% nuclear, 20% hydroelectric, 14% natural gas boiler, 8% coal, 2% wind, and 1% biomass. They also used three categories of driving cycles: City (C): short distance, low speed, congested; no highway driving.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 12, 2016

As 2016 winds down, we have one last round of deals on green cars for the year. We also have the very first deals on the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV electric car and 2017 Toyota Prius Prime plug-in hybrid—two high-anticipated models just now going on sale.

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Plugs and Cars

AUGUST 19, 2007

And ultimately, you can get no cleaner car than an electric car using wind or solar generated electricity. Of course as our efforts to green the grid take effect, and that's happening already, plug-in cars yield even greater reductions in GHGs. It is touted as part of a move toward independence from foreign oil.

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 2, 2007

In a Prius or Civic Hybrid at 50mpg, the trip would have cost about $30 in gas, tolls and parking in Sacto. At 20 lbs of carbon emissions per gallon of gasoline burned (US Energy Information Administration estimate), a Prius or Civic would have released about 80 lbs of carbon for this one round trip. Choice is what we want.

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Cars That Think

JULY 2, 2024

Permanent magnets inside the rotor interact with a rotating magnetic field created by electromagnet windings in the stator, which surrounds the rotor. The design of the motors for the Toyota Prius underscores the effectiveness of this approach. kilograms in the 2004 Prius to about 0.5 kg in the 2017 Prius.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2021

rarely use on a road bike) applies a small amount of regenerative braking before the pads make contact–just as in my wife's Prius. Online discussions convinced me, however, that this is the expected behavior when commanding a motor to maintain a fixed amperage in its windings (thus applying constant torque) while under little load.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2009

Toyota intends to lease the vehicles to existing Toyota Prius fleet customers including a mix of public bodies and private companies. Ecotricity cars, electric cars created by the UK’s leading green electricity company (charged via energy derived from wind turbines).

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 4, 2009

Toyota, the automaker arguably best positioned and most experienced in the ways of electric drive, has scarcely hidden its intention to go slow on plug-ins while touting small incremental mileage gains on the gasoline-only Prius and the green glitz of an optional solar roof.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Lucid's wind-tunnel testing isn't yet independently confirmed. Peter Rawlinson, Lucid CEO/CTO The Air might have eked out even more miles by adopting the kind of frugal-yet-flabby tires found on, say, a Toyota Prius. In addition to trimming electrical resistance, Lucid sought to ease mechanical and aerodynamic friction.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2021

rarely use on a road bike) applies a small amount of regenerative braking before the pads make contact–just as in my wife's Prius. Online discussions convinced me, however, that this is the expected behavior when commanding a motor to maintain a fixed amperage in its windings (thus applying constant torque) while under little load.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

JANUARY 23, 2009

Malloy will speak about the benefits of Biofuel and the environment and “EV Jerry” Asher will speak about electric vehicles and bring his “SPIRIT OF DC” Prius for the audience to experience. “EV His goal, crossing the entire United States in his 100% EV (Electric vehicle) Prius that he converted. EV Jerry” Asher is on a mission.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

as copied & pasted below with pix to the left: “Spirit of DC” Goes the Long and Winding Road to Groveland. Story and photos by Kay Crow [Go to the link for viewing story & photo] Friday January 23 brought the “Spirit of DC,” a Prius Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vechicle (PHEV) to Groveland’s Tioga High School.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Plus more people are installing rooftop solar photovoltaic systems, and clean wind power is vastly expanding nationally (see study by eminent environmentalist Lester Brown cited at CalCars Kudos ). In some areas where wind and hydropower is wasted at night, the rate can be as low as 2-3 cents per kWh. Thats 20-25 cents a gallon.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 3, 2024

The 2024 Kia EV9 comes in Light, Wind, Land, and GT-Line trim levels, and so far Green Car Reports has only driven the top-spec GT-Line, offering up 379 hp and 516 lb-ft of torque in its all-wheel-drive layout. The great range numbers come thanks to a lot of work with the wind tunnel. coefficient of drag.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2017

Just as in the Prius, the PCU is lighter and more compact as a result of integrating microcontrollers and using a new power stack structure, allowing the unit to be packaged directly above the transaxle. Wind noise has been suppressed through a newly-designed rain gutter molding and a reduction in the step at the bottom of the windshield.

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