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You can locate a number of hybrid vehicles on HybridCenter.org.

LANSING — Barack Obama today set a goal of 1 million plug - in hybrid vehicles on American roads by 2015, and offered tax credits to buyers and a «major commitment» to help the domestic carmakers meet the goal.

IMPACTS ASSESSMENT OF PLUG - IN HYBRID VEHICLES ON ELECTRIC UTILITIES AND REGIONAL U.S. POWER GRIDS PART 1: TECHNICAL ANALYSIS Michael Kintner - Meyer Kevin Schneider Robert Pratt Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Operated for the U.S. Department of Energy by Battelle Memorial Institute under Contract DE-AC05-76RL01830

There are 1.9 million hybrid vehicles on the roads, out of 254 million total.

Now, here are 10 of the best - value hybrid vehicles on the market.

The company says it plans to have 500,000 electric and hybrid vehicles on the road in the next four years.

Contact an Akins Ford sales representative if you would like to know more about current and available hybrid vehicles on our lot near Atlanta GA..

Going green is all the rage, so it's not surprising that searches for hybrid vehicles on Cars.com are at an all - time high.

But the Japanese automaker has many other hybrid vehicles on offer, and just released specs on the upcoming 2016 Prius c. Unlike its larger sibling, the Prius c has not been redesigned for the -LSB-...]

Toyota has been the leader of the hybrid powertrains world for nearly two decades now, offering the most efficient hybrid vehicles on the market.

The digital touchscreen has a tablet - like appearance, which differs from the standard diagonal LCD interface found in other hybrid vehicles on the market.

China has set an ambitious target of putting 5 million electric or plug - in hybrid vehicles on the country's roads by 2020, part of Beijing's efforts to fight pollution and reduce reliance on oil imports.

Already Toyota and Honda have hybrid vehicles on the lot that can get 50, 60, 70 miles to the gallon.

The Toyota Prius is the most successful hybrid vehicle on the North - American market, and that obviously makes a lot of rival automakers jealous.

This way Porsche had created the first petroleum electric hybrid vehicle on record, although since sufficiently reliable gears and couplings weren't available at the time, he chose to make it a series - hybrid, an arrangement currently more common in diesel - electric or turbo - electric railway locomotives than automobiles.

Not exact matches

The new additions include three plug - in hybrid vehicles, which come on top of eight battery - powered cars and two fuel - cell vehicles.

Beyond using this clean electricity to power homes, offices and manufacturing plants, the Chinese also view it as the fuel of choice for the growing number of vehicles hitting the road, setting a goal of putting five million «new energy» vehicles (EVs, plug - in hybrids and fuel - cell cars) on the road by 2020.

Today, around 2 million of a total 1 billion vehicles on the planet run on electric or hybrid engines.

The announcement follows Volvo's announcement on Wednesday that it planned to cease making gas - powered cars and trucks and would instead only make electronic and hybrid vehicles starting in 2019.

For the month of June, sales of Toyota vehicles, which include the Camry and Corolla sedans and the gasoline hybrid Prius, fell 1.1 % on the year to 881,000.

Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble introduced an incentive of 4,000 euros or $ 4,518 for electric car buyers, and 3,000 euros for those purchasing a plug - in hybrid vehicle, Reuters reported on Wednesday.

Electric vehicles and hybrids are among the 400 makes and models on display at this year's San Diego International Auto Show.

The government has setup the tax credit on hybrid cars at $ 3,400 for hybrids and clean diesel powered vehicles and $ 4,000 forany...

The Company's transmissions are used in a range of applications, including on - highway trucks (distribution, refuse, construction, fire and emergency), buses (primarily school, transit and hybrid - transit), motorhomes, off - highway vehicles and equipment (energy, mining and construction) and defense vehicles (wheeled and tracked).

The country will scrap the limits on firms making fully electric and plug - in hybrid vehicles in 2018, commercial vehicle firms in 2020 and lift restrictions on the wider passenger vehicle market by 2022, China state planner said in a statement.

«Through the Business for Social Responsibility Future of Fuels program, Coca - Cola and PepsiCo are researching the carbon intensity of their vehicle fuels, the ways that they can reduce reliance on high - carbon fuels, and opportunities for increasing the number of plug - in and hybrid vehicles in their fleets,» the two wrote.

With the standard of electric vehicles becoming more impressive and the release of hybrid and fully - electric road cars on a rapid increase, it makes total sense that manufacturers are keen to associate themselves with a fully - electric racing series.

So we saw the Greater New York Taxi Association, not generally known for its good works (Gene Freidman's bio on the GNYTA website lists the «Israeli Defense Force» as one of his favorite charities), suing the City over ADA requirements, over its failure to allow for hybrid vehicles as stipulated by the City Council, etc etc..

DeMarchi said she used CuseCar vehicles that were under - used at night, especially one of two plug - in hybrids on loan from Toyota.

The application of hybrid powertrains and renewable fuels on diesel platforms will further reduce the vehicles» greenhouse gas emissions and could breathe still more life into what was a very hazy U.S. industry not long ago.

The electric hybrid eVaro, developed in Canada by Future Vehicle Technologies of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, can accelerate to 60 miles per hour in around 5 seconds, and drives at least 165 miles on the equivalent of a US gallon of fuel.

Steve: So it's very inefficient though, and it's probably not going to catch on; I'm much more optimistic about your plug - in hybrids or your plug - in pure - electric vehicle.

The first mainstream plug - in hybrids and fully electric vehicles (EVs) are just now hitting the market, and while initial sales have been slow, the Department of Energy predicts there will be 1.2 million of them on the road by 2015.

For example, the carbon footprint of an electric vehicle strongly depends on local electricity sources [see «The Dirty Truth about Plug - in Hybrids,» by Michael Moyer; Scientific American, July].

Plug - in hybrids take the concept further by plugging into a regular electric outlet to enable the vehicle to operate solely on its electric motor for ranges of 40 - 50 miles or more on a single charge.

Fisker, a U.S. start - up focusing on the creation of high performance, energy efficient vehicles, plans to sell an $ 80,000 plug - in hybrid sports car by late 2009.

Over the years, Easley produced code that went on to be used in renewable energy research, including batteries for early hybrid vehicles, as well as for the high - thrust liquid oxygen / liquid hydrogen Centaur rocket used to get space capsules into orbit.

To find out what vehicles on the road are currently emitting, Drozd and colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley; Carnegie Mellon University; the University of California, San Diego; and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology rented 25 gasoline - powered cars, including two hybrids, from residents in the Los Angeles area.

... From now on, we're going to make those civilian vehicles flex - fuel capable, plug - in hybrid or cars fueled by clean natural gas.»

Acevedo said the C - MAX's success is a good indication that larger vehicles in the hybrid space can also expect to perform well on the market.

Current research and development is largely centered on «hybrid» vehicles that use both electric power and internal combustion.

Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are vying with next - generation hybrid car technology (which can be plugged in to recharge its battery rather than relying on the gasoline engine) to be the electric car of the future.

Apart from approximately 50,000 purely electric cars, roughly 40,000 plug - in hybrid vehicles are presently being operated on German roads.

In addition to offering vehicles powered by a number of alternatives (fuel, battery or both), car companies are going to win customers in the future based on the networked services they offer drivers and passengers and how well these services are delivered, says Nancy Gioia, Ford Motor Co.'s director of Sustainable Mobility Technologies and Hybrid Vehicle Programs.

During the period 2013 - 2016, SINTEF and the Gdansk Technical University (TUG) have been working together on the project called LEO (Low Emission Optimized tires and road surfaces for electric and hybrid vehicles), which is being funded by the Polish - Norwegian Research Programme CORE 2013 (NCBiR — EEA agreement, Norway Grants).

In July a report from MIT, On the Road in 2035, found that if a market for lightweight hybrid and plug - in hybrid electric vehicles were developed, the United States could cut its gas consumption by 68 billion gallons — about half our current fuel use — within 27 years.

Meanwhile, just about every automaker is working on a new generation of electric vehicles, including both hybrids and cars that operate entirely on electricity stored in batteries.

That's not happening yet: After a dozen years on the market, gasoline - electric hybrids — like the Toyota Prius or Chevrolet Volt — account for no more than three percent of total vehicle sales, she said.

Volkswagen AG plans 15 new - energy models over 3 - 5 years, its China chief told a green car conference in Beijing on Saturday, predicting - like the government - that Chinese production of electric and plug - in hybrid vehicles would grow almost six times to 2 million annually by 2020.

Those electric cars — combined with improvements in the fuel efficiency of existing internal combustion engines, new hybrid power trains and even fuel - cell vehicles — could begin to reduce the roughly $ 1 billion a day the U.S. spends on imported oil.