hybrid cars

Hybrid cars are good for the environment. But scientists say that they might be bad for pedestrians.

It has since built a reputation for technological leadership as well, most notably with the Prius and other hybrid cars.

China supplies about 95 per cent of the global market for rare earths, used to produce everything from hybrid cars to iPod music players.

Hyundai Motor plans to roll out hybrid cars as part of an overall global push into the increasingly lucrative green auto market.

But the popularity of hybrid cars like the Toyota Prius is helping to increase interest in hybrid trains.

To work the problem out, take a look back at when hybrid cars first came to market.

Yokohama is aiming its tyres at hybrid cars and efficient city cars like the Mini Cooper.

China is moving to impose fuel efficiency standards tougher than those in the United States while developing hybrid cars.

For years, BMW resisted building hybrid cars, believing that more efficient gasoline or diesel models were a smarter bet.

The world's largest carmaker is reported to be developing a neodymium-free electric motor for its expanding range of hybrid cars.

Honda, Toyota and offer hybrid cars achieving fuel efficiencies of up to 65 miles per gallon.

Power system parameter optimization is to improve the power of hybrid cars, fuel economy the key.

But the Tokachi race proved that ultracapacitors could be more widely used in conjunction with smaller batteries to power hybrid cars.

"Oh, just like one of those new eco-friendly hybrid cars, " you may think.

It would take thousands of hybrid cars to save as many gallons of gas (750, 000) as Boon expects his buses to save Seattle each year.

Most motors used in electric and hybrid cars today use a different type of motor that relies on permanent magnets.

A much-watched mineral now is neodymium, an ingredient in permanent magnets that are used in wind turbines and hybrid cars.

Rare earths are also essential to a host of green machines, including hybrid cars and wind turbines.

As in typical hybrid cars, during braking the motor acts as a generator and recharges the battery.

The problem of hybrid trains, however, is the same as that of hybrid cars: the batteries add weight.

Lithium-ion batteries, the first of which should appear in hybrid cars in 2009, could make up as much as half of that, he predicts.

Now, the two hopeful solutions are set to merge as the government institutes a new set of subsidies for hybrid cars and buses.

From cell phones and computers to hybrid cars and deep-water oil platforms, advances in engineering are profoundly changing our lives.

We've got a very aggressive plan for promoting electric cars and hybrid cars.

Toyota likewise had to tackle early perceptions that the Prius had less power than non-hybrid cars.

A decade ago, gas-electric hybrid cars were exotic rarities on the U. S. road.

There is an impeding shortage of many rare materials used in the manufacture of hybrid cars [24].

The elements are critical to the manufacture of wind turbines, hybrid cars and smart munitions but expensive to extract from the earth.

It manufactures batteries, electric and hybrid cars and buses, and many highly innovative green products.

Handouts for hybrid cars and for coal plants with low emissions are also popular.

This rebate covers electric cars, hybrid cars, as well as compressed natural gas cars.

The minerals are so-called rare earths, which are used in products like wind turbines and hybrid cars.

The solution, many now believe, is to fit electric and hybrid cars with external sound systems.

From hybrid cars to solar panels, environmentally friendly alternatives can cost more.

Over the past decade, Toyota has sold more than a million Prius gas-electric hybrid cars worldwide.

It includes electric cars, hybrid cars, as well as biofuel-powered cars.

We've had commercially available hybrid cars now for more than a decade, but they still use fossil fuels.

This gives BYD a unique selling point: The ability to produce electric and hybrid cars at lower cost than in the West.

If hybrid cars are any indication, many consumers will baulk at electric cars' high initial price.

As the market for new hybrid cars continues to increase, so will the used market.

The world's largest carmaker is developing a neodymium-free electric motor for its expanding range of hybrid cars.

Rare earths are used for high-technology products such as precision-guided weapons and hybrid cars.

This is no mean feat, especially for firms dealing with new, costly technologies, like hybrid cars.

This illustrated history chronicles electric and hybrid cars from the late 19th century to today's fuel cell and plug-in automobiles.

BYD, the Chinese carmaker, plans to begin selling electric and hybrid cars in Europe next year, its chairman and founder said.

Some of them have chosen to invest instead in plug-in electric hybrid cars.

Electric and hybrid cars not only help you save money on gas, they also pollute less, making them better for the environment.

Al Bedwell : Hybrid cars typically offer about the same fuel efficiency as diesel cars or a good modern diesel car but they cost more.

So are hybrid cars more susceptible to damage than conventional models?

This week, Toyota bowed to the inevitable and recalled 440, 000 hybrid cars around the world.

A decade ago the Toyota Prius took hybrid cars into the mainstream.

They're traveling here in hybrid cars; not using corporate jets like last time.

Toyota said in 2004 it would assemble hybrid cars outside Japan for the first time, with local China partner FAW Group.

Hybrid cars will help us conserve gas and protect the environment.

for the past 5 years or so, hybrid cars have been leading the pack of fuel-efficient vehicles. . .

Hybrid cars are one application for these characteristics.

The shift to hybrid cars will remove a further chunk of demand.

Some 40 of its legislators drive hybrid cars.

The metal is needed for use in hybrid cars' batteries.

Another technology that we see all around us out here is hybrid cars.

The price for lanthanum oxide, used in the batteries of hybrid cars, fell 4. 4% to $24. 77 a kilogram.

Which is why the electric or hybrid cars of the future may sound so, well, futuristic.

The company will continue to produce its premium magnets, used in hybrid cars, in Japan.

Remember in the campaign, one million hybrid cars by 2015. That is 0. 5 percent of the U. S. oil consumption.

Today we can already see hybrid cars and hydrogen-fuelled buses on our roads.

PG&E has a large vehicle fleet, for example, and it needs mechanics who can work on hybrid cars as well as the traditional sort.

Honda Motor Co. (HMC) said Friday it plans to start producing gasoline-electric hybrid cars in China in the future.

Hybrid cars that can not plug in to charge are still tied to the gasoline pump, still require oil changes, smog checks and tune ups.

In addition, the wealthy have more money to spend on products that improve energy efficiency, such as insulation and hybrid cars.

Early hybrid cars, for example, had less power than non-hybrid cars.

Toyota, for example, has led the world in developing hybrid cars, such as the Prius.

Mr Dunne pointed out that only 899 Prius hybrid cars were sold in China last year.

He points out that only 899 Prius hybrid cars were sold in China last year.

Toyota, for example, produces in Japan the bulk of its Prius hybrid cars and Lexus luxury range.

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