PG&E asks carmakers to hurry up on plug-in hybrids
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Pacific Gas & Electric Co. is  asking its 5.1 million customers to petition automakers to  speed up development of plug-in electric-gasoline hybrid  vehicles, California's largest utility said on Friday.
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TOKYO: Toyota Motor Corp will more than double the number of its hot-selling Prius hybrid cars allocated for sale in the United States next year.
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The Toyota Prius has set a new world land-speed record for hybrid powered cars. The Prius achieved 130.794 mph on a three-mile, Salt Lake course using a standard Hybrid Synergy Drive power-train - a mixture
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The cars, SUVS and pickups people will buy in the years ahead are likely to use less fuel, and many will rely on ethanol or household electricity instead of gasoline. The energy legislation pushed through the Senate this week provides a roadmap to the future, demanding higher automobile fuel economy, mandating huge increases in ethanol as a motor fuel and supporting more research into building "plug-in" hybrid-electric vehicles.
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Plug-in electric cars could defeat Toyota's Prius and recharge Detroit. And Detroit desperately needs recharging. By John Gartner.
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General Motors and DaimlerChrysler are joining forces to develop a new hybrid powertrain that they claim is more efficient and flexible than current hybrids.
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Toyota Motor Corp. will produce a small fleet of plug-in hybrids by 2010, the Japanese automaker's chief said Sunday.
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Smaller engines, lighter vehicles and lots of turbochargers and hybrids should do the trick.
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Honda Motor Co. expects the introduction of its new gas-electric version of the Accord to boost its US sales of hybrid vehicles to more than 45,000 next year.
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Google said Tuesday it is getting in on the development of electric vehicles, awarding $1 million in grants and inviting applicants to bid for another $10 million in funding to develop plug-in hybrid electric vehicles capable of getting 70 to 100 miles per gallon.
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While the number of flex fuel vehicles is growing, auto manufacturers should set a deadline for making all future vehicles capable of using some type of alternative fuel. In Autopia.
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General Motors Corp. would need to power almost all new models with gasoline-electric hybrid systems to meet the most restrictive fuel economy standards proposed by US lawmakers, vice chairman Robert Lutz said yesterday.
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Three gasoline-electric hybrids, the Toyota Prius, Honda Civic, and Nissan Altima, are rated among the "greenest" cars of 2007 in the 10th annual "greenest" and "meanest" rankings released today by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy.
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DaimlerChrysler and General Motors say they are teaming up to develop new hybrid technology for use in their cars.
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Tesla made the electric car fancy. Now Fisker wants to do the same for the plug-in hybrid.
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The Japanese car giant is to build its Prius hybrid vehicle in China, to carve out a niche in the world's fastest-growing car market.
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BEIJING, Dec. 14 -- General Motors and DaimlerChrysler will jointly develop a gasoline-electric powered car to match Toyota and Honda in so-called hybrid vehicles that save fuel and cut emissions.