If you’re considering the purchase of a new car, you may wonder about the differences between a conventional vehicle and a hybrid design. Most hybrids on the road today have a conventional counterpart. The Toyota Prius is one exception. Toyota also plans to make a Lexus HS250h, which will have no conventional equivalent. For the [...]

The combination of California and hybrid cars is a natural. California’s ocean-side location, combined with the surrounding mountains mean that a lot of smog gets trapped over the California coast. For years, the state has been at the forefront of the push for lower emission standards and improved fuel economy. Sitting in LA traffic for [...]

A plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) is a specially designed hybrid vehicle that uses both batteries and an internal combustion engine (ICE) to power the drive train. Typically, a PHEV can operate in all-electric mode until its batteries are exhausted. Once the battery pack has been drained, the ICE engages. Normally, the ICE does not [...]