By the end of 2006 there were about 15 hybrid vehicles from various car makers available in the U.S.
[Pernick, R. and Wilder, C. (2007). ]The Clean Tech Revolution
''The Clean Tech Revolution: The Next Big Growth and Investment Opportunity'' is a 2007 book by Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder, who say that commercializing clean technologies is a profitable enterprise that is moving steadily into mainstream bus ...
, p. 4. By May 2007 Toyota sold its first million hybrids and had sold a total of two million hybrids at the end of August 2009.
Comparisons
Below is a comparison of the Toyota hybrid models.
* Note: Miles per gallon estimates are those provided by the
United States Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent executive agency of the United States federal government tasked with environmental protection matters. President Richard Nixon proposed the establishment of EPA on July 9, 1970; it ...
(EPA) and are the 2008 revision of the original numbers.
* Hybrid access to US HOV lanes varies by US state. Factors can include total/average
miles per gallon
The fuel economy of an automobile relates distance traveled by a vehicle and the amount of fuel consumed. Consumption can be expressed in terms of volume of fuel to travel a distance, or the distance traveled per unit volume of fuel consumed. S ...
rating from the EPA, type of technology used, and/or date of vehicle registration with the relevant state authorities. (Several states have begun restricting HOV lane access by hybrid and clean-fuel vehicles due to crowding.)
* Traction battery power is the amount of power available from the electric portion of the
powertrain
A drivetrain (also frequently spelled as drive train or sometimes drive-train) is the group of components that deliver mechanical power from the prime mover to the driven components. In automotive engineering, the drivetrain is the components o ...
without the aid of the
internal combustion engine
An internal combustion engine (ICE or IC engine) is a heat engine in which the combustion of a fuel occurs with an oxidizer (usually air) in a combustion chamber that is an integral part of the working fluid flow circuit. In an internal co ...
(ICE). This is generally limited by the
traction battery rather than the electric motor(s).
See also
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Hybrid Synergy Drive
Hybrid Synergy Drive (HSD), also known as Toyota Hybrid System II, is the brand name of Toyota Motor Corporation for the hybrid car drive train technology used in vehicles with the Toyota and Lexus marques. First introduced on the Toyota Prius, ...
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Hybrid electric vehicles in the United States
The fleet of hybrid electric vehicles in the United States, with 5.8 million units sold through December 2020, is the second largest in the world after Japan (7.51 million by March 2018). American sales of hybrid electric vehicles rep ...
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List of hybrid vehicles
This is a list of hybrid vehicles, including both regular hybrid electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids in chronological order of first production:
Automobiles
Overview by decade
Early designs: 1899-1917
*1899: Carmaker Pieper of Belg ...
Notes
References
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External links
about.com hybrid comparisonHybrid Synergy Drive movie from ToyotaUnited States Environmental Protection Agency Fuel Economy Site2016 Toyota Prius Specifications Revealed"Evaluation of the 2007 Toyota Camry Hybrid Synergy Drive system"
from Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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has an extensive comparison between the 2004 Prius and 2007 Camry Hybrid systems
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Toyota
is a Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in Toyota City, Aichi, Japan. It was founded by Kiichiro Toyoda and incorporated on . Toyota is one of the largest automobile manufacturers in the world, producing about 10 ...