Upcoming hybrid vehicles

Hybrid vehicles are becoming a hot topic in the automotive world. With so many people now having an eye to the environment car buyers are looking for affordable, well designed cars that will also help them cut their CO2 emissions whilst saving on fuel costs.

The success and popularity of two of the flagship hybrid technology cars, the Toyota Prius and Lexus Hybrid Drive range, has more and more car manufacturers seeing the benefits of moving into this, more energy conscious, market.

It's not surprising, with governments around the world starting to set tougher restrictions on such things as carbon dioxide emissions, restrictions that will hit both the car manufacturers and the customers where it hurts - in the pocket, for any that don't adhere to the rules.

So for those reasons we should be seeing a dramatic increase in the amount of hybrid vehicles available to the car buying public. A number of these cars are very eagerly anticipated.

So who are releasing hybrid cars? Lets take a look at the US and UK releases scheduled for 2009

  • toyota IQToyota - IQ
  • RX450 hybridLexus - RX 450h
  • cayenne hybridPorsche - Cayenne Hybrid
  • tribute hybridMazda - Tribute Hybrid
  • yukon hybridGMC - Yukon Hybrid
  • milan hybridMercury - Milan Hybrid
  • mkz hybridLincoln - MKZ Hybrid
  • q7 hybridAudi - Q7 Hybrid
  • malibuChevy - Malibu
  • tahoeChevy - Tahoe
  • fusion hybridFord - Fusion Hybrid
  • expedition hybridFord - Expedition Hybrid
  • mercedes hybridMercedes - Hybrid
  • audi a1Audi - A1
  • s40 driveVolvo - S40 DRIVe
  • hyundai i20Hyundai - i20

As you can see a large number of the top names are following the already huge brands of Toyota and Lexus into the hybrid technologies market. As the world grows more conscious of its fuel expenditure and the damage it is causing to the environment it can be expected that we will be seeing an ever increasing number of automotive manufacturers producing cars that will help alleviate people's worries about the damage their driving is doing to the world around them.

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