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...electric. "I see the mountains from my office window for a third of the year," he says. "The other two-thirds of the year, they vanish behind the smog." Last June he thought of the $75 a month in gas he could save by trading his 15-m.p.g. Toyota 4Runner for an EV1. "While I was debating," he recalls, "I looked out my window and the mountains were gone." Likewise, actors Mary Steenburgen and Ted Danson, president of the American Oceans Campaign, replaced their Ford Explorer out of concern for coastal oil pollution. Now, after six months of driving...
...electric hybrid in January. For automakers wary of as radical a break from the ICE-age as all-electric cars, hybrids offer a compromise. They don't need an extensive public-charger network to overcome a limited range because the batteries are supplemented by a small gasoline engine. Toyota has thrown down the gauntlet by pricing its hybrid, the Prius, at $16,500 in Japan--about a quarter below production cost. The car, which gets 66 m.p.g., could be available in the U.S. within a year. Global warming will force "a slow phase-off of the internal-combustion engine...
...automobile is on the way. Several major auto manufacturers are designing hybrid electric cars that have twice the fuel economy and half the carbon-dioxide emissions of today's vehicles. The sticker price is admittedly a few thousand dollars higher but is largely offset by lower fuel bills. Toyota plans to bring the first such car to the market in Japan this week, and other carmakers will soon follow suit (see following story...
...mind. His date for the night lived in a Philadelphia neighborhood known for its crime and poverty, and Colbert couldn't find her house. Then he got lucky--or so he thought. A police wagon was idling down the block, and Colbert got out of his dark blue 1985 Toyota Camry to ask directions. Inside the police van were two uniformed cops, a lean, square-jawed officer with longish yellow hair--known and feared on the streets as Blondie--and a short, dark-haired officer named Tommy Ryan. As Colbert recalls it today, "I was in the wrong place...
Several auto manufacturers have expressed interest in using the Arthur D. Little reformer in their cars, said Derby. "We're having discussions with Honda and Toyota, and also with Chrysler," he said...