Archive for the ‘hybrid SUV’ Category

• What is it? A luxury SUV that returns a fuel economy of 21 mpg/24 mpg (city/highway) • The basics: Two electric motors and a 3.5-liter V-6 • On sale: November 16, 2009 • Price: Only available on lease, from $549 per month

First seen at the 2009 New York Auto Show back in April, the highly-efficient 2010 Mercedes-Benz ML450 Hybrid is finally ready for launch.

Official fuel economy numbers for the big SUV are 21 mpg around town and 24 mpg on the highway, which are very impressive considering the similarly sized (but V-8 powered) 2010 BMW X6 ActiveHybrid only returns an EPA-rated 17 mpg in the city and 19 mpg on the...

With Roger Penske's PAG (Penske Automotive Group) taking control of General Motors' Saturn division, the question among product geeks was what vehicles will make up the new Saturn's line?

According to AutoblogGreen and other sources, the Penske deal apparently includes a continued supply of some current Saturn products on an interim basis until Penske lines up one or more suppliers for new vehicles.

For TheCarConnection, one of 2010's most anticipated new Saturn vehicles was to be the new two-mode Vue Hybrid. We were invited to -- even had a plane ticket -- to a press event where we were drive this vehicle last December, but then the...

Toyota has set itself the nifty goal of bringing ten new hybrid models to market by 2012, and producing hybrid versions of all its vehicles by the year 2020.  Next in line for a green makeover? The popular Toyota RAV4.

We don't yet know exactly when a hybrid RAV4 will hit the lots, but we do know for sure that it's in the works. That's been confirmed by Koei Saga, the managing officer of hybrid system development at Toyota. Saga also said that the company wants to launch the RAV4 hybrid in China "as soon as possible", which sounds pretty soon to us. Is their morning coffee stronger than ours?

[source: egmCarTech]