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By Huw Evans Following setbacks from a natural disaster and increasing valuation of the yen, Toyota has been fighting back with an aggressive growth strategy to increase sales and profitability. Reinforcing that plan is an emphasis on selling more hybrids and lower priced cars both at home and abroad. Having regained its place as world’s [...]

By Huw Evans Heather Peters, who filed a small claims suit against Honda in California saying her 2006 Civic Hybrid could not achieve the 50 miles per gallon as advertised by the manufacturer, has had her initial apparent victory overturned by a state judge. This past week, Superior Court Judge Dudley W. Gray II ruled [...]

By Huw Evans After it ran out of money last year, California based EV startup Aptera Motors closed its doors, with videos being leaked of company assets being systematically destroyed. However, it now appears that the company may have a future after all; thanks to a newly formed consortium, backed by a Chinese investor. read [...]

By Jeff Cobb With stringent taxes penalizing big internal combustion luxury sedans in the country of Holland, Fisker Automotive’s extended-range electric Karma has managed a second-place sales spot in that segment for the first quarter of this year. How many cars did it take to edge out the BMW 7-series, Mercedes S-class and Audi A8 [...]

By Jeff Cobb Today in Gaimersheim near Ingolstadt, Germany, Audi AG announced the opening of its high-voltage battery project house with the goal of “setting new standards” for lithium-ion batteries intended for its pending Audi e-tron line. Working with battery cell supplier Panasonic and other companies, Audi has hired around 100 electronics experts, and will [...]