You want to save the earth, but you're not ready for a hybrid car.
The regular Escape saw 167, 678 American unit sales last year, but a 15, 000- to 25, 000-unit target sounds more appropriate for a hybrid.
Sample late-April interest rates were 2.65% for a five-year hybrid ARM, 2.85% for a seven-year hybrid ARM and 3.24% for a 10-year hybrid ARM, he added.
Using the flat allowance might make sense for a hybrid owner who uses little gas, while actual costs often work best for those with less-efficient cars.
Here's a question we've been asking ourselves for a while: what if the dock for a hybrid tablet could offer not only a keyboard and battery, but also increased performance?
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You might question the need for a hybrid generator.
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Fortunately, the stimulus package passed stateside gave Ener1 new life and the company is producing batteries for everyone from the military for a hybrid Humvee to Japanese conglomerate Itochu as well as Think, in which it took a financial stake.
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We talked about cloud computing and his vision for a hybrid model, the role that converged infrastructure and automation from the compute resources all the way to VM provisioning, Steve agreed that is what would ultimately be needed to enable private cloud.
There are other more intangible considerations, such as how hybrids help the environment and the benefits you may receive for driving a hybrid.
Several companies are already preparing for such a hybrid world.
"The Ford C-MAX Energi is within financial reach for those who want a hybrid, but is also something customers will want to reach for because of its unique look and amazing value, " said Michael O'Brien, Ford electrified vehicle marketing manager.
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We questioned our sanity for a moment when feeling around for this hybrid's power button.
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These approaches can combine a smaller SSD that stores the operating system and applications and a larger HDD that is used for user data, or a hybrid HDD that has flash memory inside a HDD that is used to store frequently accessed data on the flash with less used data kept available on the HDD.
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Noting that the Prius has become a universal icon for hybrid technology, Toyota said it will begin marketing Prius as a brand.
Anyone eager to buy a hybrid for the promise of 50 mpg will have to look elsewhere.
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It's worse for me to design a hybrid type of structure that is trying to tastefully fit in.
Using an embedded Webkit runtime as a browser for hybrid apps further reduces the difference in UI and functionality across multiple devices.
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Not bad for a first-run hybrid.
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Prius sales led the way for what proved to be a stellar March for Toyota and Lexus hybrid sales.
Depending on the price of gas, it can take quite a while for fuel savings to make up for the extra expense of buying a hybrid as opposed to a standard, gasoline-powered equivalent.
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This year's trends are marked by a hybrid appreciation for fads of other eras.
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For an example, in a hybrid car, a radiator works to cool the combustion engine while a second radiator cools the power electronic system that runs the electric motor.
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HotLink, a Silicon Valley startup that has developed a platform for heterogeneous and hybrid computing infrastructure, has the CIOs of Facebook, Clorox, Citrix Systems, BMC Software, Flextronics, and Electronic Arts on its advisory board.
Prior to taking office Obama tooled around Chicago behind the wheel of an urban-cool Chrysler 300C sedan, which he proceeded to trade in upon throwing his hat into the proverbial ring for a for a more fuel-efficient and politically expeditious Ford Escape Hybrid SUV.
In 2010, a forward-thinking friend of mine took me for a ride in a Ford Fusion, a gas-electric hybrid that gets more miles per gallon than comparable cars with conventional engines.
The Renewable Sustainable Expeditionary Power (RSEP) program seeks to create a transportable renewable hybrid system that can provide Marines with electricity for a 15-day mission without relying on fuel resupply convoys that often become targets for adversaries.
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The New York Times covers a particularly noxious example of a monstrous hybrid: for-profit probation.
Whether it has the gumption, durability and resilience to make a name for itself in the hybrid market is another matter entirely.
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The resignation of co-founder Henrik Fisker was the last of a series of setbacks for the hybrid carmaker that may have sealed its fate.
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