If the 2011 and 2012 automotive industry is going to be remembered for any kind of milestone, it's no doubt that the birth of the electric vehicle.  In fact, maybe that's wrong - the RAV4 EV, the topic of today's blog, was available in short supply in the mid-1990s, while Handy Toyota's sister store Handy Chevrolet could locate electric vehicle or EV variants of the then-popular Chevrolet S10 truck as early as?

With the 2012 Prius Plug-in getting named Forbes Magazine's Most Anticipated Car of 2012 as per readers' votes, it dawned on me that our information was not only stale but outdated.  That being the case I took the initiative and update all the Prius PHV information on our website resulting in not only a Prius Plug-in information page but a new read more

As you very well know, the Prius IV (4th generation) is now on sale and doing as well as ever, and the new Prius v, a Prius hybrid with 58% more cargo room and still up to 44 mpg, has sold nicely and been received by owners of the vehicle with a fervent love.  And soon the Prius c, the world's first hybrid subcompact car, will be released along side the Prius Plug-in.  Knowing all of this, we at Handy Toyota of St. Albans, VT, Vermont's first Toyota dealership and America's first Cow Powered green dealer are…

With the release of the 2012 Prius IV (the 4th generation Prius hybrid), the 58% larger Prius v, and the pricing release of the subcompact Prius c, does it really surprise you that the Prius Plug-in - basically a current edition Prius hybrid with the added benefit of better technology and up to 15 miles of electric, emissions free driving on a single 1.5 hour charge (as well as an estimated $4 bump to the electricity bill at two charges per day) - that Forbes Magazine just released the Most Anticipated Cars of 2012 with the Prius PHV topping the list…

Will the 2012 Prius Plug-in make waves in the same regard as the original Prius?  If pre-orders and fan hype are any indication, Toyota Motors USA's Bob Carter, group vice president of sales, says absolutely.  And with a current EPA estimated 95 miles per gallon combined (gasoline plus a fully charged battery) and a final fuel economy score coming in weeks, Prius Plug-in fanfare is at an all…

Though we have discussed interesting upcoming vehicles such as the Toyota 86, the 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, the RAV4 EV, or even the compact Prius c compact hybrid vehicle, that doesn't mean Toyota Motors and Toyota Motors USA were even close to being finished unveiling new and exciting vehicles at the 2012 North American International Auto Show in our country's automotive capital Detroit, MI this past week.

So allow us at Handy Toyota of St. Albans, Vermont properly introduce a concept vehicle with a four-year completion window (and likely shorter says Toyota Motors USA president…

Headlining the news in the world of hybrid cars, the Prius, diesel engines and - believe it or not - Bavarian luxury vehicles, Toyota Motors and BMW have formed an alliance for the ages in the hopes of expanding upon each company's dominance in the eco-friendly fight against gas guzzlers and high gasoline prices alike.

On the heels of President Obama's recently proposed law that calls for fleetwide fuel economy ratings of no less than 54.5 in the next few years, BMW hopes to use Toyota's excellent Hybrid Synergy Drive technologies - the lithium-ion batteries that have propelled the…

Never content with having achieved victory, Toyota Motors released news over 2011 that a full, four-car family of Prius hybrids, or Prii as you remember, were in the works.  Among these new cars sits the world renowned Prius hybrid, the first, original, and for lack of a more subtle term trendsetting hybrid, which was recently followed by the 2012 Toyota Prius v, a Prius with up to 44 miles per gallon and well over 55?

For nearly a decade and a half the phrase "eco-friendly" has been synonymous with that of Prius.  By the middle point of this decade, Toyota will have a four-car Prius family, dubbed by the Facebook fans of the world Prii.  So it should come as little shock that the 2012 Toyota Prius has been dubbed the Best Green Car to Buy by GreenCarReports.com.

"The Prius is more than just one car this year," points…

The lucky citizens of Japan, Toyota's birthplace of course, recently got word that Toyota's Prius Plug-in Priority Registration period is over and phase two, the actual ordering stage, is no open.  Along with the official opening of the order phase, Toyota announced that the Prius Plug-in will retail for around 3.2 million yen with over 270,000 yen worth of Japanese government incentives for purchasing eco-friendly hybrid vehicles.

Additionally, Toyota announced the mileage has now grown to almost 17 miles per charge, the Prius Plug-in charges in only 90 minutes from the Japanese 200-volt outlet with an…