Shannon is the newest member of the "Dead 12V Club." Even a 2024 Prius isn't immune to battery blues, leaving owners carrying ...

The political polarization of battery-powered cars may have started when Toyota released its first hybrid model 25 years ago. By Lawrence Ulrich Lawrence Ulrich is a Detroit native and a contributing ...

The Toyota Prius is famous for going hundreds of thousands of miles on little more than oil changes. So when a driver says she dropped $4,000 on a new hybrid battery, only to fear her engine is now ...

There’s something admirable about Toyota’s consistency. In an era where most automakers leap from trend to trend chasing headlines, Toyota hones in, tightens the bolts, and engineers quietly toward ...

The Toyota badge benefits from its impressive reliability standards, but eventually you are going to need to have the supplementary hybrid battery pack replaced. Unfortunately, this is an inevitable ...

This fall marks the 25th anniversary of the US launch of the first-gen Toyota Prius — a car that, arguably, has done more to more to shift the market away from fossil fuels than any other single ...

Among them is independent designer Vishnu Suresh, better known as Zephyr Designz, who has pushed the Prius makeover into a realm of radical imagination, proving that even the humblest hybrid isn’t ...

Like we've said, the Prius has continually benefitted from good long-term reliability ratings, and this also includes how long the HEV system's battery pack lasts, even with regular usage. At some ...

It hasn’t been an easy ride for Toyota and Subaru’s first major foray into the EV market. The Toyota bZ4X and Subaru Solterra stand out for their unconventional styling, but unfortunately, not for ...

I bought a 2006 Toyota Prius a few months back and let me just say, I love it. I’ve always owned old trucks that guzzle down fuel like it’s going out of style, so driving past gas stations in an ...

If you’re new here, there’s something you should know about me: I love trucks. I’ve owned old trucks, new trucks, red trucks and… actually, I’ve never owned a blue truck before. But I just bought a ...

Big news today for Georgetown: Toyota is announcing a $1.3 billion expansion to its Central Kentucky plant for a new battery-powered SUV assembly line. It’s more than double the original size of the ...