Toyota has announced a new way to improve fuel use by 10 percent for its hybrid vehicles. Instead of some sort of new powertrain or transmission, however, the high-tech solution has more to do with electronics than horsepower or fuel injectors. You might know that hybrids get their big fuel savings by relying on a […]
Well, goodbye to all that. Toyota will not renew its partnership with Tesla, an electric-vehicle maker, this year. Many people were surprised when Toyota began the partnership just four years ago. Toyota had successfully developed the gas-electric Prius on its own, so enlisting help for an all-electric vehicle was unexpected. Tesla agreed to buy a […]
What’s the range of your car? Multiplying the capacity of your gas tank by your highest miles per gallon estimate is a good place to start, and if you happen to own a Camry, that number might be a lot higher than you realize. In fact, of the Camry’s nine trim lines, four have a […]
California has always been a fascinating section of the U.S., perhaps even as a microcosm of the nation, if something so large can ever really be thought of as micro. Its coastline is longer, its problems larger, its cities denser, and in many ways it shares the challenges that North Carolina has been gradually wading […]
Well, that’s impressive. Wireless mobile phone charging has been a nice dream mainly relegated to airplane magazines for the past couple years for reasons that no one really knows. Even though our phones are more advanced computers than NASA had when they went to the moon, everyone still has to ask that fundamental question every […]
