Soaring demand for Volkswagen’s clean diesel Jetta Sportwagen TDI has left VW dealerships unable to keep up with demand. Waiting lists for the $24,000 vehicle—with MPG ratings [...] [...]
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Built with the patents of others? For years now Toyota’s relative success with hybrid cars has been met with little challenge from other automakers. Toyota is simply the king of hybrids. However, the hybrid king has been challenged a number of times in court over the years for violating patents used in elements of the Hybrid Synergy [...] [...] Only with a legitimate Prius contender? From August to September, sales of hybrid cars dropped a whopping 48.4 percent according to GreenCarCongress. Of course, car and truck sales declined by more than 40 percent, so a huge chunk of this decline is relative. Moreover, in September, the Toyota Prius was still the 11th best selling vehicle [...] [...] > Subscribe to the HybridCars.com Market Dashboard Analysis of September 2009 Sales Numbers "Top 5 global hybrid markets" based on vehicle registrations CYTD July 2009. "Top 5 US hybrid markets" based on vehicle registrations CYTD July 2009. The hybrid market disproportionally benefited from the Cash For Clunkers program in July and August, and therefore disproportionally fell in September. [...] [...] Paice LLC, a small Florida-based hybrid car technology company that won a patent infringement case against Toyota in 2005, has now brought a related case to the International Trade Commission, which has the power to ban all Toyota hybrids from the United States. What’s at stake for Toyota if its hybrids were banned from the [...] [...] |
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