But Toyota, the leader in hybrid-electric vehicles, still isn't convinced there's a large market for electric vehicles.
The growing smorgasbord in new car showrooms includes 43 hybrid-electric vehicles, four plug-in hybrids and 12 pure electric cars.
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Today's advances in hybrid-electric drives provide ability to move stealthily in combat and with minimal disruption in crowded marketplaces.
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The contract will fund development of a lower-cost lithium-ion phosphate battery technology with enhanced power, lifetime and durability for hybrid-electric vehicle applications.
They are introducing the fashionable idea of hybrid-electric drive into helicopters.
And I have to admit to a smug feeling of superiority when we passed a hybrid-electric Toyota Motor (nyse: TM - news - people ) Prius.
The Karma is so close to being right, absolutely close enough for hand grenades, but the legacy of the car is marred by two things: First, the range-extended hybrid-electric powertrain a daring engineering enterprise never fully made the case for itself in terms of efficiency and emotion.
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Other projects being funded this year include an effort to develop a smaller, less costly and more durable fuel cell power system that will enable commercialization of U.S. fuel cell buses, and an effort to develop and demonstrate a lightweight highly efficient bus that incorporates an improved hybrid-electric drive and enhanced bus design.
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To that end, its city hall is covered in solar panels and there are plans to fit cosier insulation to local-government buildings, build four waste-to-energy plants and buy 500 hybrid diesel-electric buses by 2010.
The double-decker buses have climate control, free wi-fi and hybrid electric-diesel engines to save fuel.
Carmakers, such as General Motors and Nissan, already have been selling plug-in hybrid or all-electric cars.
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The report also highlighted the sales of all-electric and gasoline-electric hybrid cars.
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The company is hosting the EV Experience Tour to help other businesses and key stakeholders understand technical and business approaches for deploying pure electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.
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The company has created hundreds of American automotive jobs and its first model, the Roadster sports car, lit a fire under Detroit to begin producing electric and plug-in hybrid electric cars but with less success.
In Australia, where he was overseeing a Better Place initiative, the company provides GM customers with a fixed-charging network and home chargers for the plug-in electric-hybrid Volt.
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One prototype truck, which GM will soon deliver to the Army, is a diesel-electric hybrid that is 20% more fuel-efficient than the best diesel engines.
Chevy's Volt could be different--there aren't too many other plug-in hybrid electric cars to compete with at the moment--and the Vincentric data is just a prediction of future worth.
While hybrid, plug-in hybrid and full electric cars largely remain niche vehicles, representing less than three percent of all vehicles sold nationally, 15 U.S. cities combine to account for nearly 30 percent of all hybrids and 41 percent of all electric vehicles on the road according to R.
The Karma Sedan is a series Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) powered by a lithium-ion battery and an efficient 2.0-liter range-extending gasoline engine.
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On his directive, the greening of the federal fleet, does he want to see his limousines made hybrid or all-electric vehicles?
An expert on urban transportation technology, Sperling says the most obvious change consumers can expect in future transportation is increased prevalence of hybrid and pure-electric vehicles.
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Fisker's Karma series-hybrid electric vehicle hasn't exactly been receiving a lot of great press lately, but the company didn't let the process of swapping out 640 battery packs dampen the launch of that car's smaller sibling, the Atlantic.
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Sales data shows that consumers have been showing more interest in plug-in hybrid and hybrid vehicles, over all-electric cars which have a limited driving range.
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Those looking to minimize their carbon footprints are able to choose among a growing number of part- and full-time electric vehicles like the new Toyota Prius plug-in hybrid and the Ford Focus Electric and Mitsubishi i.
How this happens remains to be seen, but there are four distinct options on the table: hybrid cars, plug-in hybrid cars, battery electric cars, and fuel cell cars.
For one thing, the Mahoney-McCann team should be able to figure out a way to drive home the huge advantage that Volt, as a plug-in hybrid, enjoys over the all-electric wanna-bes.
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The C-Max Energi has an EV mode button on the center stack that lets the driver choose between three modes: electric-only driving, normal hybrid mode (which blends electric and gasoline engine power as appropriate) or EV-later mode, which reserves the battery pack power for later use.
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Fisker Automotive, which makes plug-in hybrid electric cars, is reportedly undergoing major layoffs, reported GigaOm.
He became chief engineer for the Prius, the world's first mass-produced petrol-electric hybrid car, in 1996.
In other words, the latest hybrid vehicles and all-electric cars are already here.
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