When you are dealing with the Chevy Volt – it is a very unique and different car and that is what I like about it.  Hybrid and electric cars are becoming more and more popular nowadays and this is just one step in the hybrid world that Chevy is taking.  Although, I am not exactly sure if this car is going to be a good step for them, the Chevy Volt is actually one car that people might not like simply due to the fact that on one single charge – this car can only go about 40 miles.

While that sounds great … I live about 20 miles from my job one way … I’d have to charge this thing every single night!  Although the Chevy Volt is going to have a gas engine inside of it – doesn’t that almost defeat the entire propose of it?  In my mind it does, but that is just me.

Although, the Chevy Volt is one of the coolest looking cars though – simply because of the overall appeal of it – so it might be one hot car on the market, we’ll see though!

This incredible hybrid is going have a price tag of about $100,000 but it is absolutely going to be worth it.  The driving experience alone is absolutely incredible and to be honest, this car is just competing with the other luxury hybrids like the Fisker Karma and the Lexus LS 600h L and by far, this is the cheapest of the bunch!

So check out the Mercedes Benz S400 Hybrid this August – you will absolutely love it!

As a major step in their collaboration in road-trials in France, EDF and Toyota had declared that it will involve Plug-in Hybrid vehicles (PHV) and an enhanced charging mechanism and will be rented by selected partners and companies in Strasbourg, France. About hundred units of the lithium ion batteried PHV’s will be released to the said renters.

The renting will start from the end of 2009 and it will last for three years. This project is made also possible by the financial aid of the Research Fund that is supervised by the French Environment and Energy Management Agency or ADEME. This joint program is a part of the global Toyota venture that will also be done in Japan and in the United States from the end of the year 2009.

Toyota has this main goal to probe more on the performance and technology of Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles (like the Plug-in Hybrid Prius) while the EDF is aiming to assess the varied operational methods for the powering or charging mechanisms. The collaboration, meanwhile, is to widen the knowledge and recognition of the consumers, as a preliminary step for the future commercialization.

In the context of the collaboration, the vehicles will make use of an enhanced charging system that is engineered for secured charging. The PHV’s made use of Toyota’s hybrid enhancements but with the added advantage that the batteries will be recharged using the typical electric plugs.

The car manufacturer is anticipating to give rise to an unsurpassed fuel economy and will make a hit on low emissions.