DETROIT, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- A green future for car companies is a clash between green, meaning profits, and green meaning environmentally progressive, an analyst said.
PARIS, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- Hybrid automobiles for a world rocked by wallet-emptying gas prices will be front and center at the 2008 Paris auto show, a trade publication reported Sunday.
RALEIGH, N.C., Sept. 10 (UPI) -- A North Carolina company says it is doing a land-office business retrofitting Toyota Prius cars into plug-in hybrids with even better gasoline mileage.
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich., Aug. 16 (UPI) -- All Toyota models will have hybrid engines by 2020, the company has announced at an automotive conference.
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TORRANCE, Calif., Aug. 1 (UPI) -- A used Toyota Prius is doing something very few vehicles ever do: appreciating in value, a car value research group said.
TOKYO, July 27 (UPI) -- Toyota Motor Corp. is considering raising the price of its hybrid Prius and luxury models in Japan to help offset higher material costs, an executive said.
DEARBORN, Mich., July 19 (UPI) -- Ford Motor Co. plans to start producing smaller models now made and sold in Europe in the United States, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.
BLUE SPRINGS, Miss., July 10 (UPI) -- Toyota Motors said Thursday it would switch production plans for a new factory in Blue Springs, Miss., to making hybrid gas-electric vehicles.
TORONTO, July 1 (UPI) -- Toyota Canada used the country's national birthday Tuesday to announce price cuts on 11 models of Toyota and Lexus vehicles.
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DALLAS, June 30 (UPI) -- U.S. demand for the Toyota hybrid car Prius have outstripped supplies, shooting prices upward, dealers and car owners said.
BOULDER, Colo., June 28 (UPI) -- Backers of all-electric cars say they're relieved a fire that destroyed a Toyota Prius prototype this month wasn't caused by the battery.
AUBURN HILLS, Mich., June 21 (UPI) -- Chrysler officials say they're ready to hit the road with hybrid fuel versions of some of its biggest and heaviest U.S. vehicles, including SUVs and trucks.
DENVER, June 10 (UPI) -- Scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo., are testing a modified 2006 Toyota Prius that can get 100 miles per gallon.