Peugeot Citroen to sell diesel hybrids in 2010. diesel hybrids. PSA has long stayed out of the race to bring gasoline hybrids - combining a combustion engine and an electrical motor - to the market because it thinks clean diesel engines alone can provide performance on fuel consumption and emissions that is comparable to gasoline-hybrid engines....

Hybrid HD DVD / Blu-ray players appear unlikely after LG backs off. hddvd blu ray hybrids unlikely after lg. Last week, LG seemed to all but shut the last door on prospects for a hybrid player.. TWICE and others took this news as a clear signal that the hybrid player would not be produced at all. Samsung has considered the possibility of producing its own hybrid player, as If the company as a whole ever was considering a "universal player," the fact that it apparently is not doing so now may be an indication of the combined weakness in sales for the first high-def players for both formats in North America, which could bode for a very weak niche market, potentially, in hybrids....

Fuel-cells and Hybrids steal the spotlight at the Los Angeles Auto Show. laautoshow2006 fuelcell hybrid. Companies are showing off fuel cell concept cars along with their old hybrid vehicles. General Motors even announced the first ever plug-in hybrid vehicle.. General Motors also announced a new hybrid vehicle. According to Wagoner, the hybrid Vue would have double the fuel-efficiency of current SUVs....

Other than the hybrid vehicles today, the ReCharge uses the electric motor as the main engine and a combustion engine as support. Other than the hybrid vehicles today, the ReCharge uses the electric motor as the main engine and a combustion engine as support – resulting in a gas consumption rating that should easily exceed 100 mpg in everyday use. The ReCharge concept puts a different spin on the hybrids we are used to today and promises to boost the C30’s gas consumption further up – much further up. And besides making you more independent from gas consumption, there is an environmental factor in there as well : "This plug-in hybrid car, when used as intended, should have about 66% lower emissions of carbon dioxide compared with the best hybrid cars available on the market today....

Mercedes to use Li-ion batteries in hybrid S-class sedan. Mercedes-Benz today announced its two first hybrid vehicles, both of which will be using conventional lithium-ion batteries, as opposed to nickel-metal versions that are used for example in the Toyota Prius or the upcoming Porsche Cayenne Hybrid.. Stuttgart (Germany) – Mercedes-Benz today announced its two first hybrid vehicles, both of which will be using conventional lithium-ion batteries, as opposed to nickel-metal versions that are used for example in the Toyota Prius or the upcoming Porsche Cayenne Hybrid. Following the S400 will be the S300 Bluetec Hybrid, a diesel that is combined with the new lithium-ion battery. The company also claims that the lithium-ion battery is much smaller than other battery systems currently on the market, indicating that there the weight penalty may not be as serious and buyers of won’t have to give up quite as much trunk space as in other hybrids....

Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid Coming In 2010. The Toyota Prius plug-in hybrid is expected to become the first affordable and mass-produced plug-in hybrid vehicle that will let you recharge the electric engine through a power plug at home and drive completely gasoline-independent for at least a few dozen miles. The plug-in hybrid is finally confirmed and has received a production date. Don’t get your hopes up yet, as the first plug-in hybrids are reserved to become fleet vehicles only. It is pretty much certain that we are at least five or six years away until electric cars may be affordable for the general public and your choices to reduce fuel consumption may be limited to current hybrids and small cars....

Hybrid Vehicles Still More Expensive To Own Than Other Gas-sipping Vehicles. car hybrid gas. Yes, Japanese cars are dominating the ranking and there is not a single hybrid among the top ten. Edmunds.com said that Honda Civic Hybrid is currently the cheapest hybrid car on a per-mile basis with a cost of 47.6 cents per mile at $4.06 per gallon, 49.9 cents at $5 and 52.4 cents at $6 per gallon. The Civic Hybrid is currently ranked at #14 overall. The high sticker price keeps other hybrids from being "cheap" vehicles to operate, if you look at the overall cost over five years....

Dell's Studio Hybrid Reignites The Passion For The Desktop PC. Dell Studio Hybrid. But the new Studio Hybrids has a much broader range of models and pricing, which could make the product much more successful than the unusual designs of the past. Dell’s configuration pages for the Studio Hybrid read like the options list for a German car : Add a 45 nm processor, a 320 GB hard drive, 4 GB of memory, a Blu-ray drive, Wi-Fi and a 24" screen and you will end up with a system that easily will burn through the $2000 barrier. As many new PCs today, Dell pitches the Studio Hybrid as a green PCs as well....

Nissan Unveils Hybrid Vehicle, Promises All-electric Car By 2010. Nissan has become the third Japanese manufacturer to announce hybrid and/or electric cars. Nissan has become the third Japanese manufacturer to announce hybrid and/or electric cars. Nissan said that the technology is being develo6ped as a "high-performance rear-wheel drive hybrid system and parallel-powertrain hybrid system" that where one motor is directly connected to an engine and transmission via two separate clutches. As in other hybrids, the energy from braking is conserved and re-routed back to regenerate the battery....

University of Wisconsin creates diesel-hybrid SUV. hybrid diesel suv. What is special about this Equinox is that it is a hybrid vehicle, which combines an electrical engine to power the rear wheels and a diesel engine powering the front wheels. Hybrids aren’t new, but the concept of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has a few unique approaches. First, instead of a regular gasoline engine that is used, for example, in the Ford Escape Hybrid or Lexus RX400h Hybrid it uses a diesel engine that provides not only more torque but are also more fuel efficient at higher speeds - a discipline where today’s available hybrid cars still disappoint. Second, while electric engines in today’s hybrids are often used to just start the car (a concept shown by Audi), to boost torque and to be active mainly a slower speeds, the electric motor Challenge X concept’s Equinox runs all the time....