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• Diesel Cars Elbowing into Hybrid Market

  BNET - 2009-07-14

  High mileage and European styling have made the new generation of diesel cars a smart alternative to hybrids. We run the numbers to calculate which cars offer you the best deal for the least fuel. 2009 Volkswagen Jetta TDI diesel ...

  Tags: Car, Sedan, Volkswagen AG, Hybrid, Toyota Motor Corp., BMW AG, Toyota Prius, MoneyWatch, Sales Strategy, Sales, Jerry Edgerton

• Needed: A Really Cheap Hybrid (Listening, Honda?)

  BNET - 2009-05-10

  The path to profitability with hybrid and battery electric cars may not be at the top of the marketâ€"as Fisker and Tesla are assumingâ€"but at the bottom. Take a look at the price wars developing between Honda and Toyota over, respectively, the Insight and Prius. And that’s only the beginning....

  Tags: Honda Motor Co., Hybrid, Toyota Motor Corp., Toyota Prius, Insight, Pricing, Engineering, Marketing Research, Marketing, Jim Motavalli

• For the 2010 Lexus 450h, Price Counts

  BNET - 2009-02-23

  Toyota’s Lexus division is launching an all-new 2010 version of its luxury SUV, the V-6-powered RX350, in the teeth of a deep recession. But the suddenly vulnerable company says it is confident it can sell more than the 65,000 that moved out of showrooms last year. It's a new model, they said...

  Tags: Emission, Hybrid, Toyota Motor Corp., 450h, Sales Strategy, Engineering, Sales Force Management, Sales, Jim Motavalli

• MyRide.com Announces Top 5 "Cheapest" Cars on the Market; Top 5 Non-Hybrid Gas Savers, and Top 5 Most Fuel-Efficient Crossovers

  - 2008-09-03

  Whether looking for the cheapest wheels for that college bound son or daughter or something cost -- and fuel -- efficient to replace that guzzling SUV, the auto experts at MyRide.com have compiled three "Top 5s" designed to help car buyers find some of the cheapest and most...

  Tags: Autobytel Inc., car, hybrid, Toyota Motor Corp.

• Supply of hybrids runs out of gas as demand soars

  - 2008-06-11

  Even as car buyers stampede for vehicles with better fuel mileage, there are fewer hybrids, the gas-stingiest, to go around. While sales of conventional small cars soared last month, sales of the most popular gas-electric hybrids were flat or down because dealers had fewer left. There...

  Tags: battery, car, hybrid, SALES, Toyota Motor Corp.

• Toyota says to produce new hybrid battery next year

  - 2008-06-11

  TOKYO AFP — Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday that it plans to start producing lithium-ion batteries next year as it races against rivals to develop new high-mileage hybrid vehicles. Toyota, seeking to keep its lead in the growing hybrid market amid rising petrol prices, said its joint venture with...

  Tags: battery, Engineering, hybrid, lithium-ion, Toyota Motor Corp.

• Toyota says to produce hybrids in Australia

  - 2008-06-09

  NAGOYA, Japan AFP — Toyota said Tuesday it will produce hybrid cars in Australia, whose Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is trying to battle spiralling fuel prices and revive the country's ailing auto industry. Rudd met with Toyota Motor Corp. chief Katsuaki Watanabe at the auto giant's headquarters in central...

  Tags: Australia, car, hybrid, Japan, Toyota Motor Corp.

• Record Gas Prices Drive More Searches for Fuel-Efficient Cars on Cars.com

  - 2008-04-04

  CHICAGO -- With gas prices again hitting record highs, the number of shoppers searching for hybrids and other fuel-efficient vehicles on Cars.com has skyrocketed. According to Cars.com's monthly Consumer Search Index, the Toyota Prius and the fuel-efficient, subcompact Toyota Yaris are once again among the top 10 most-searched new cars...

  Tags: car, Cars.com, hybrid, Toyota Motor Corp.

• Prius plug-in displays battery of good points

  - 2008-01-18

  DETROIT -- Seventy-one miles per gallon. That's what the trip computer read after a 4-mile loop through downtown and a short freeway blast in a prototype of the Toyota Prius plug-in hybrid. Skip the freeway run, go lighter on the throttle downtown...

  Tags: battery, car, Engineering, hybrid, motor, plug-in, Toyota Motor Corp.

• Toyota pursues alternative fuel-saving technology

  - 2008-01-15

  DETROIT -- Toyota Motor, known for gasoline-electric hybrids such as its Prius, says it's branching into other alternative power plants to stay ahead of rivals. It will offer low-pollution diesel engines on the Tundra pickup and Sequoia SUV, while doing more research on ethanol, President Katsuaki...

  Tags: Engineering, hybrid, SALES, Toyota Motor Corp.