Will launch with next gen Sonata
Hyundai’s first hybrid vehicles for the US market will be lithium powered, using next gen lithium polymer batteries. Expect the first BlueDrive hybrids with the launch of the next gen Sonata.
Coming late Spring ‘09
Toyota debuted the 2nd generation 450h Lexus hybrid at the LA Auto Show today, which promises to offer significant improvements in both performance and fuel efficiency.
Many of these new Lexus hybrid improvements will also find their way into the first dedicated Lexus hybrid, the HS250h, when it debuts in Detroit in January.
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Hyundai is using “blue” to describe green. The blue tag will be added to the most efficient version of each model. (Photo: Photo by MSVG/flickr.)
Better looking than the Fusion
Ford really pumped the fuel economy of the Fusion and Mercury Milan hybrids today, trying desperately to one-up Toyota.
In terms of design and styling, I still prefer the Camry hybrid. Nonetheless, I definitely prefer the Milan styling over that of the Fusion.
Regardless, until Ford is willing to build more than 25,000 of these hybrid cars per year, I still can’t get too excited.
I’ve seen the future and I like it
Check out Honda’s new sport fuel cell vehicle. Based on the same fuel cell technology in the Clarity fuel cell vehicle, the FCSPORT is about to make me beg for the hydrogen highway Now!
The CNG Camry Hybrid. Click to enlarge. Toyota Motor Sales (TMS) USA showed a compressed natural gas (CNG) Camry Hybrid concept vehicle at the 2008 Los Angeles Auto Show. (Earlier post.) The CNG Camry Hybrid concept was designed by the…