The Toyota Prius is more than a global household name; it's an icon that set the template for mass-market hybrid vehicles. The original Prius launched in 1997 as the world's first mass-market hybrid ...

The groundbreaking 2001 Prius kicked off an era of gas-electric hybrids and built Toyota's reputation as the global leader in green cars. In a different world, an electric vehicle would be just ...

The political polarization of battery-powered cars may have started when Toyota released its first hybrid model 25 years ago. By Lawrence Ulrich Lawrence Ulrich is a Detroit native and a contributing ...

The Toyota Prius is famous for going hundreds of thousands of miles on little more than oil changes. So when a driver says she dropped $4,000 on a new hybrid battery, only to fear her engine is now ...

Having lived in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 2000s - when the oddly-shaped yet super trendy Prius was all the rage - I can't tell you how happy I was to see its incredible transformation decades ...

In 1997, Toyota released the Prius — the world's first mass-produced hybrid car — in Japan, with a U.S. version following in 2000. There have been five generations of the compact car since, but one of ...

Toyota on Wednesday said it has started production at a new $13.9 billion battery plant in North Carolina. The Japanese automaker also confirmed plans to invest up to $10 billion more than previously ...

Some capacity at the site could be redirected to vehicle or component production. Credit: Mark Roger Bailey/Shutterstock.com. Toyota Motor has deferred its planned electric vehicle (EV) battery ...

The Toyota badge benefits from its impressive reliability standards, but eventually you are going to need to have the supplementary hybrid battery pack replaced. Unfortunately, this is an inevitable ...

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The Nightshade Edition trim is Toyota’s way of bringing more sinister style to its customers by offering unique color schemes the obligatory set of black-painted wheels and body trim common to these, ...

It hasn’t been an easy ride for Toyota and Subaru’s first major foray into the EV market. The Toyota bZ4X and Subaru Solterra stand out for their unconventional styling, but unfortunately, not for ...