Everyone wants a car that gets great gas mileage now. Gas prices are going up and there’s no sign of them coming back down. Gas prices are truly crazy right now, and it doesn’t seem as if they’re going to improve any time soon. Between continuing instability in the Middle East Read More

In recent years there have been two popular kinds of hybrid drive that have been developed by various car manufacturers. The first kind are known as ‘Series hybrids’ and they use an old fashion combustion engine which will in turn generate electricity to power the electric motor and thereby providing the vehicle with Read More

Honda Cars is planning to build a new plant in western Japan to increase its capacity to produce key components for honda hybrid vehicles. The plant is expected to start operations in 2008. The plant, once fully operational, will allow the car manufacturer giant to quadruple its current honda hybrid vehicles production Read More

Buying hybrid cars can be a little bit more complicated than what you might think. The complication though, is not on the “buying hybrid car” part, but how to go about the myriad of hybrid cars to choose from. But just like in any other activities, there are some basics needed to be understood.

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In the 1990s, the U.S. Department of Energy collaborated with GM, Ford, Chrysler, to challenge the dominance of their Japanese and European counterparts in the development of hybrid cars. Millions of dollars were put into the huge project of developing American hybrid cars.

Ten years after, Ford came up with one Read More