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Drivers of hybrid cars today don’t necessarily understand how they work under the hood. The good news is, they don’t have to; if the vehicles are properly designed, there’s no reason to give it much thought. But with electric vehicles now neck and neck in sales with hybrids, the two categories are increasingly intertwined. This […]

Ask someone at random to name a hybrid car, and they’ll more likely than not say “Prius.” The Toyota Prius is by far the best-known hybrid-electric vehicle, and over two and a half decades, Toyota has sold roughly 6 million of them—and another 14 million (or so) hybrids of other models as well. But the

From the January 2024 issue of Car and Driver. The Porsche Cayenne Turbo is dead. Long live the Porsche Cayenne Turbo E-Hybrid. As its name implies, the Cayenne Turbo E-Hybrid pairs a retuned version of the outgoing Cayenne Turbo’s twin-turbo 4.0-liter V-8 with an electric drive motor. If this sounds familiar, that’s because it is.

Editor’s Note: We remember the great Cale Yarborough, who died at age 84 at the end of December. To honor his legacy that was cemented in NASCAR history at the 1979 Daytona 500 we are reposting this story that Autoweek originally published in 2019. By a factor of two, it’s generally accepted that the 1979

From the January 2024 issue of Car and Driver. If midcentury soothsayers really had a line on the future, all those Syd Mead illustrations of happy sci-fi suburbanites would have shown them darting around glass-walled skyscrapers in Porsche Macans. Talk about a flying car. The Macan looks like a June bug (especially the GTS in

This article was updated in November 2023 with new products and information. You drove home last night and everything was fine with your vehicle, but this morning, you have a dead battery. You need to get your car going again—of course. But how? You could use a portable jump starter or, worst case, finagle a

The Nissan Leaf was the first mass-market electric car sold in the United States. Yes, there were EVs available before the Leaf (General Motors’ EV1 and Tesla’s Roadster are two well-known examples), but it was Nissan that tried to thread the needle of zero-emission mobility with a cost of entry low enough to sell tens

From the November 2023 issue of Car and Driver. Painted like a bull’s-eye in the back corner of Toyota‘s factory in Motomachi, Japan, is a large turntable redirecting freshly minted GR Corollas (and foreign-market-only GR Yarises) onto an alignment rack, obviating the need to turn their steering wheels. It’s a seemingly simple procedure imposed by