Electric Car Blogging

“It’s the sports car of the future, the way BMW imagines it.” That’s how Adrian van Hooydonk, director of BMW’s group design, describes the “BMW Vision [...] [...]

Soon to face a rare metal shortage?
By next year, the Prius hybrid car could help Toyota sell 1 million hybrid cars per year, if there are enough rare metals available for such an output.
According to reports, the supplies of rare metals needed for the electric motors and batteries of hybrids is beginning to tighten. And, [...] [...]

How have you dealt with your hybrid problems?
Most hybrid owners are pretty happy with their hybrid vehicles. 90-some percent of Toyota Prius owners, for instance, would buy another Prius.
Still, there are consumers that are unhappy with the performance, usually fuel economy, of their hybrids. Sometimes these hybrid problems are bugs. Sometimes these hybrid problems are [...] [...]

If only the F150 were a hybrid
Provide a lot of incentives for consumers to buy small and efficient cars and some will take advantage. Interest also rises with gas prices. No duh, right?
Nonetheless, Americans don’t really want these vehicles according to BusinessWeek.
Instead, they want vehicles like the Ford F150, a vehicle that saw its first [...] [...]

The “fluff” remains after the Tesla Roadster’s lithium batteries are processed for recycling.
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Mark ups on the Prius, again?
There are some minor reports of a few Toyota dealers adding markups to the Toyota Prius. Fortunately, the markups are nothing like last year when dealers would as much as ,000 or more to the price of the Prius simply because they could.
Earlier this year, several Toyota dealers told me [...] [...]