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Toyota Prius To Offer Noise & Alert Options

The Toyota Prius is the world's best selling and probably quietest hybrid car. Once the electric engine takes control of the car, it is hard to hear it drive by. This has become an issue in some areas, especially those with high foot and bike traffic.

Accidents over the years involving a collision between hybrid cars and those walking or biking has raised concerns that the Toyota Pius is too quiet. Toyota is hard at work on a solution to this issue.

The auto maker will start selling a $148 speaker system in Japan, which will play sounds under…

Toyota Prius, Champion of the Obama Administration


The hybrid car race is on going - but at the finish line there is no checkered flag. The winner will make the longest lasting, most fuel efficient and affordable gas-electric cars for the roads of The United States of America.

Toyota has risen to be the most well known hybrid car maker with the decade old Prius sedan. But even with so many driving off in a new or pre-owned Prius, there are still many heading towards regular, internal combustion engine vehicles.

Toyota, along with other hybrid car manufacturers, have plans to make "green cars" more available. The Obama administration…
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