Mercedes has made provisions for the time when the purchase of a plug-in hybrid will no longer be generously subsidised by tax. In other words, for a time when this drive system will have to assert ...

The Toyota Prius is great and all, but try carrying sheets of plywood or a soccer team around in it. Oy. Kraig Higginson, Chairman of Raser Technologies, believes there should also be hybrids that can ...

GM may have the flashy Chevy Volt concept, but it seems Ford has taken the first step to test plug-in hybrids in the wild. Ford has teamed with electric utility California Edison to test its new ...

Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday it has developed a plug-in hybrid vehicle for public road tests in Japan and plans tests for the U.S. and Europe. Plug-in hybrids, whose batteries can be recharged ...

Plug-in hybrids don’t get much respect, and frankly, that reputation is partly earned. Too many early plug-in hybrid electric vehicles had electric ranges that barely justified the engineering ...

Plug-in hybrids have been a lifeline for the company car driver in recent years as benefit-in-kind (BIK) tax rates soared and the availability of suitable battery electric cars failed to keep pace.

We’ve always had a soft spot for the Toyota Prius at Consumer Reports. This hybrid model has never been flashy or sporty, but for the past two decades each generation came with two promises: Practical ...