Video from the recent unveiling of the 2016 Toyota Prius. It’s a major update over the last platform revision, which occurred in 2010.
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There’s a movement afoot aiming to drastically reduce driving, the need for driving, and the need for parking, all in the name of environmental goodness. The theory is that reducing vehicle miles traveled will reduce the negative environmental impact (like greenhouse gas emissions) from transportation, and there will be additional…
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In an electric car, as soon as your foot lifts off the accelerator pedal the regenerative braking system activates slowing the car down while recovering energy. The extent of this effect varies from car to car, but this is generally the way they work. The effect is similar to engine…
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Are electric car sales “bogged down” and “slow”? It depends on whether you compare sales figures to sales of equivalent gasoline cars, or whether you compare them to previous era’s of electric car sales. I fall in the latter camp, and am overly excited about the large growth in electric…
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An hour ago this normal everywhere intersection was full of police, fire and emergency vehicles. A few minutes before I had been in my house quietly writing a news article about a 500 mile electric car being developed in Denmark, when there was a thud outside followed by screams. When…
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