Its current two-mode hybrid system is limited to large trucks and SUVs, like the Chevy Tahoe and Cadillac Escalade.
The first GM-designed and built electric motors are scheduled to debut in 2013 in its next-generation, rear-wheel-drive, two-mode hybrid technology.
C-MAX Energi operates just like a traditional hybrid with two key differences - owners must plug in the vehicle using its charge port and C-MAX Energi has a larger battery pack.
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Stadler drove out onto the stage at the Las Vegas Hilton in an Audi e-tron Spyder concept car, a hybrid vehicle with two electric motors and a twin-turbo V6 engine, capable of zooming from 0 to 60 in just 4.7 seconds.
Yesterday, AUDI AG chairman Rupert Stadler gave his own keynote address at CES, driving out onto the stage at the Las Vegas Hilton in an Audi e-tron Spyder concept car, a hybrid vehicle with two electric motors and a twin-turbo V6 engine, capable of zooming from 0 to 60 in just 4.7 seconds.
Take a 20 kilometers-per-liter hybrid, which is a small car with two engines--one gasoline, one electric--that work in collaboration.
Porsche is introducing its first plug-in hybrid and two new extended wheelbase variants with the second generation of the Panamera.
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Lin was deliberately vague in his descriptions of the device, declining to specify whether it will be a smartphone or a tablet or some type of never-before-seen hybrid of the two.
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Unlike two-way, three-way, four-way or so-called "hybrid" armature driver (hearing aid type) earphones, there are no electronic or comb filtering artifacts, no phase issues, and no crossover dropouts.
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Floating-rate funds come in three varieties: open-end, closed-end and a hybrid of the two.
Superstorm Sandy, a hybrid of a hurricane and two cold-weather systems, struck six months ago on Oct. 29, concentrating most of its fury on New Jersey, New York and Connecticut and becoming one of the most expensive storms in history.
The device has been such a success, in fact, that the company is expanding the x2 series to make room for two follow-on products: the Split x2 (a Windows 8 hybrid) and the SlateBook x2 (an Android tablet).
According to a comprehensive report just released by Democrats on Congress' Joint Economic Committee, 1.8 million hybrid adjustable-rate mortgages will reset within the next two years.
If Japan had regained its internal energy--say, through remarkable technologies in resource recovery and efficiency, beyond the celebrated hybrid auto engines--the world's number two economy could be zigging while so many others are zagging.
In the next two years, there will be 20 different either electric or hybrid or gas -- or plug-in hybrid cars hitting the road.
By comparison, many of the hybrid and plug-in models making the Greenest Car list this year are practical enough to be everyday drivers, including two family friendly station wagons, the Toyota Prius v and Ford C-Max Hybrid.
The Nomura-Lehman hybrid may be able to hold together for a year or two, but ultimately it's doomed, says Edwin Merner, manager of Atlantis Japan Growth Fund, who has spent more than two decades in Japan.
These two models will be the first series-produced vehicles specially built with electric engine and electric hybrid drive train.
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The hybrid disc works by making the Blu-ray layer act like a two way mirror, reflecting enough light for Blu-ray playback, but letting enough light through for HD DVD operation.
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Over a two-year period at the Rothamsted Research site in North Devon, the team found that the hybrid grass reduced run-off by up to 51% compared with perennial ryegrass and by 43% compared with meadow fescue.
Of the five teams running in Portugal, only Toyota installed Kers over the first two days - although even the company whose Prius car leads the road-car market place in "hybrid" cars employing similar systems cannot guarantee they will run it in the season opener in Australia on 29 March.
At the 2012 Paris Motor Show, which opened last weekend, Audi unveiled its brand-new Crosslane Hybrid Coupe concept, which is powered by a 1.5L three-cylinder engine and two electric motors.
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