Hybrid Cars

Posted: 03/15/2010 03:36 AM

New rules for electric or hybrid cars include protection against electric shock, high temperatures, and gas exposure.

Posted: 03/12/2010 03:50 AM

12 March 2010 AMMAN -- Hybrid cars entering the Kingdom after April 30 will be subject to the recent government decision cancelling part of the tax exemption on green vehicles.

Posted: 03/14/2010 09:53 PM

March 15 (Bloomberg) -- Toyota Motor Corp. , the world’s biggest carmaker, may start building Prius hybrid cars at a third Japanese plant to shorten a fourth-month wait for deliveries of the model, the Nikkan Kogyo newspaper said.

Posted: 03/15/2010 10:07 AM

How we'll be traveling in the next 100 years. This is the fifth part in an eight-part series on the future of transportation. New articles published every Monday. We have a good idea of what the near-term future of transportation will look like: hybrid vehicles, like the Chevy Volt; electric cars, such as the Tesla Roadster; the rickshaw-cum-Segway known as the General Motors P.U.M.A.; and high ...

Posted: 03/15/2010 10:02 AM

The federal government said Monday it cannot explain a reported incident of sudden, high-speed acceleration in a Toyota Prius on a San Diego freeway and acknowledged it may not be able to solve the mystery of what happened to the hybrid.

Posted: 03/15/2010 09:41 AM

The federal government said Monday that it cannot explain a reported incident of sudden, high-speed acceleration in a Toyota Prius on a San Diego, Calif., freeway last week and acknowledged it may not be able to solve the mystery of what happened to the hybrid.

Posted: 03/10/2010 10:15 AM

Geneva - The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe announced Wednesday a common standards for electric and hybrid cars, which Brussels has hailed as a landmark decision. Electric vehicles operate at very high voltages - generally in the rang...

Posted: 03/15/2010 05:48 AM

Ford, Chrysler and Chevrolet are doing battle for market share in the hot market for police cruisers in the U.S. market.

Posted: 03/15/2010 07:57 AM

Four Japanese auto giants and the country's largest power company joined forces Monday to set up a common system to recharge electric cars, with the aim of creating a global standard.

Posted: 03/15/2010 05:22 AM

They blame fuel-efficiency mandates and short-term leases for high costs.