Electric vehicles have moved beyond being seen simply as cars and have become caught in political and cultural debates, especially in the United States. In a different world, an electric vehicle would ...

While Toyota insists its modern engines don't need early maintenance, a growing wave of wary owners, haunted by recent "machining debris" recalls, are reaching into their own pockets to defy the ...

Prime time is over for Toyota. No, seriously — the automaker dropped the Prime designation for its plug-in hybrid (PHEV) models last year, opting for a self-explanatory acronym in its place instead.

The groundbreaking 2001 Prius kicked off an era of gas-electric hybrids and built Toyota's reputation as the global leader in green cars. In a different world, an electric vehicle would be just ...

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 ...