Electric Car Blogging

In June, Toyota sold 22,292 Priuses in Japan, while selling only 12,998 units of the Toyota Prius in the US.
Sales of the Prius in Japan, when combined with Honda’s 8,782 sales of the new Honda Insight, were enough for Japan to become the biggest market for gas-electric hybrid cars in the world. June sales [...] [...]

The McDonald’s restaurant in Cary, NC, will become the first location in the fast food restaurant chain in more than a decade to offer electric car recharging. The deployment of a ChargePoint charging station for plug-in vehicles is part of the Cary restaurant’s efforts to go green. Ric Richards, the independent owner of [...] [...]

Better put your order in now?
According to unconfirmed reports, Toyota is planning to produce 30,000 plug-in Prius hybrids per year beginning in 2012. These hybrids will achieve an electric range of 15 miles and offer up to 100 mpg.
Regardless of the veracity of these reports, Toyota is set to begin leasing a small amount of [...] [...]

Too quiet in EV mode?
The Japanese government has launched a panel to determine whether a sound making device should be added to hybrid cars that run almost silent in EV mode.
Is this a good idea? Isn’t the quietness of hybrids and EVs, overall, a good thing?
Nonetheless, what kind of sound should be used so as [...] [...]