It’s pretty obvious that electricity is the future for our cars. But as any EV owner now can tell you, it has some limitations. Range and charging times are their biggest limitations, but the Toyota ...

Toyota has showcased a new internal combustion engine design specifically for use in range-extended electric vehicles. Called the Free Piston Engine Linear Generator (FPEG), the main purpose of this ...

It all started with Gran Turismo. From those early PlayStation days, Sean was drawn to anything with four wheels. Prior to joining the Roadshow team, he was a freelance contributor for Motor Authority ...

Antony Ingram April 30, 2014 Comment Now! The concept of range-extended vehicles--electric cars with a gasoline generator to extend their range--is an intriguing way of combining the benefits of both ...

Technically, the combustion engine in any hybrid vehicle is a range extender, but the term commonly refers to gasoline-fueled generators that are used to charge an electric vehicle’s battery pack but ...

Toyota has electrified its Land Cruiser 4x4 with the shift to a new 48V hybrid model. On sale now and priced at £80,740, the ...

Toyota uses hydrogen fuel cells to power everything from ordinary passenger cars to lunar rovers, but it’s not stopping there. The Japanese automaker is testing the use of fuel cells to power one of ...

Toyota Motor North America is working with the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory to install a fuel cell power generator at the NREL's campus in Arvada, Colorado.

Toyota executives have removed the equivalent of 294 cars from the roads. A new hydrogen-run generator at the Japanese car company’s Torrance campus started operating on Wednesday, with the promise to ...