Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Nissan, USA 2011 Nissan Leaf – Click above for high-res image gallery With 4,000-plus Nissan Leafs roaming the streets in the U.S., demographic data is starting to slowly trickle in. On Monday, Brendan Jones, Nissan’s director of electric vehicle marketing and sales strategy, revealed these facts: Only one in four of Leaf [...]
Filed under: Etc., Transportation Alternatives, Toyota What if the Toyota Prius were a bicycle? For Prius Project No. 011, Toyota called on one of the most respected names in cycling, Parlee Cycles, to answer that question. Ten weeks later, the Prius-inspired bicycle (pictured above) emerged. Countless hours went into designing, developing and perfecting the monocoque [...]
Filed under: Hybrid, Toyota, USA 2011 Toyota Prius – Click above for high-res image gallery In a rare twist of events, Automotive News (sub. req.) reports that one of the world’s leading newswire services mistakenly let slip (i.e., issued a press release) that boatloads (75,000 to be exact) of Toyota Prius hybrids will ship out [...]
Auto show press conferences sometimes resemble mosh pits, but savvy photographers know how to get the best angles while protecting vulnerable body parts. Photographer Joe Nuxoll got most of these shots from the event where Toyota launched its 2012 Prius V multi-purpose vehicle (or, for those of us who are more old-school, station wagon). [...]
