Partly because of high gas prices, consumers are taking a second look at hybrid cars.
Wasn't the wave of hybrid cars and higher mileage standards supposed to do more than that?
REEs are essential raw materials for the fabrication of high-performance magnets in hybrid cars and wind-turbines.
Perhaps right now hybrid cars and electric cars only the playthings of the wealthy.
On September 21st Ford announced that it could increase production of hybrid cars tenfold by 2010.
Rare-earth minerals are crucial for products like hybrid cars, wind turbines and guided missiles.
It's a future in which renewable electricity is fueling plug-in hybrid cars and energy-efficient homes and businesses.
Toyota Motors recently announced that unit sales of its hybrid cars surpassed 1 million units in 2012.
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This includes promoting electric and hybrid cars as an alternative to gas-guzzling cars idling on clogged city roads.
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Americans are rapidly making moves to conserve energy, buying more hybrid cars and swapping out old-fashioned light bulbs.
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Politics, like hybrid cars, can work for us if we work for us.
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So it is trying to create another niche, in pollution-saving electric or hybrid cars, through government support and tax incentives.
President Bush yesterday announced some small steps like suspending purchases for the strategic reserve and encouraging the purchase of hybrid cars.
Electrical drive trains are displacing mechanical ones in factories, ships, hybrid cars and all the other heavy-lifting sectors of the economy.
While solar energy isn't viable in rainy Seattle, Microsoft employees also enjoy free access to mass transit and company-subsidized hybrid cars.
If gas prices spike and suddenly auto buyers want more electric or hybrid cars, just ramp up production of those models.
As with gasoline-fueled and hybrid cars, how you drive affects real-world mileage.
A123 makes batteries for electric and hybrid cars, and the electric grid.
The report also highlighted the sales of all-electric and gasoline-electric hybrid cars.
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Japan's marquee automakers have jumped into hybrids, electrics and hydrogen cars, following Toyota 's success with the Prius and its other hybrid cars.
To take just one example, the United States used to make less than 2 percent of the world's advanced batteries for hybrid cars.
The catbird seat in the state high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes, because standard hybrid cars like the Prius are now banned from them.
Cars with the lowest levels of carbon emissions, such as hybrid cars registered in or after March 2001, are exempt from paying the duty.
In the next two years, there will be 20 different either electric or hybrid or gas -- or plug-in hybrid cars hitting the road.
For now, the auto industry appears to distinctly favor hybrid cars.
Business Daily said Thursday the electronic and industrial giant planned to raise production capacity of lithium-ion batteries for hybrid cars seventyfold to 700, 000 units by 2015.
But he also drew cheers for a promise to seek energy independence through more oil drilling, nuclear power, clean coal, renewables, and flex fuel and hybrid cars.
Academy Award broadcasts stop for environmental speeches, hybrid cars are status items and even online publications are now being branded as "eco-friendly" because they don't waste paper.
Sorry, these are the companies based in Britain that are developing their electric cars or proposing to develop their hybrid cars in Britain as a base for Europe.
We're on track to create 700, 000 jobs across America building advanced batteries for hybrid cars, and modernizing our electric grid, and doubling our capacity to generate clean energy.
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