{"id":156,"date":"2014-07-09T11:43:11","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T11:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineprices.co.uk\/blog\/?p=156"},"modified":"2019-04-02T04:59:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T04:59:51","slug":"obsessed-toyota-prius-plug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineprices.co.uk\/blog\/obsessed-toyota-prius-plug\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are We Obsessed with the Toyota Prius Plug-In"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Our Love with the Toyota Prius-Plug In<\/h1>\n<p>The 2014 <a title=\"Toyota Prius Plug In\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engineprices.co.uk\/pr-model.asp?pmake=toyota&amp;pmodel=prius&amp;mo_id=984\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Prius Plug-in Hybrid<\/strong><\/a> is the smallest range plug-in in the market today with all-electric range of 6 miles from full to empty, and a \u2018blended\u2019 petrol + electric range of 11 miles from a full charge. Yet U.S. sales of Toyota\u2019s first mass-produced plug-in hybrid are on the rise. The Toyota Prius plug-in Hybrid still leads Chevrolet\u2019s range-extended Volt EV on year-to-date sales.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"Ford Fusion Energi\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ford.com\/cars\/fusion\/trim\/seenergi\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ford Fusion Energi<\/strong> <\/a>Plug-in Hybrid are also experiencing a massive boost in sales, showing a clear move towards plug-in technology among the car-buying public. But why are cars like the Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid and Ford Fusion Energi Plug-in Hybrid selling so well? What can be learnt from their success?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The major reason why <a title=\"Toyota's Prius Plug-In\" href=\"http:\/\/www.toyota.co.uk\/new-cars\/prius-plug-in\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Toyota\u2019s Plug-in Prius<\/strong> <\/a>and Ford\u2019s Fusion Energi plug-in hybrid are selling so well is deeply rooted brand loyalty among its customers. With more Hybrid car sales than any other automaker, Toyota Prius has become a symbol of fuel economy, frugality and environmentally friendly motoring.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Prius is at the end of its third generation and the trend is that customers tend to exchange the Prius for a Prius. As people tend to buy more Hybrids they are more worried about its range hence Toyota has been offering petrol engines as a reassuring back up.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Both the Ford Energi plug-in hybrid and the Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid look no different to their non-plug-in siblings. Unlike the Chevrolet Volt, Nissan LEAF, Mitsubishi i-Miev and BMW i3, the plug-in Prius and the Fusion Energi look like normal, petrol-guzzling cars. The Toyota Prius has green credentials as well as the ability to blend in with the crowd as they can be driven on both petrol and electricity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Love with the Toyota Prius-Plug In The 2014 Prius Plug-in Hybrid is the smallest range plug-in in the market today with all-electric range of 6 miles from full to empty, and a \u2018blended\u2019 petrol + electric range of 11 miles from a full charge. Yet U.S. sales of Toyota\u2019s first mass-produced plug-in hybrid are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[142,84,83,148],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineprices.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineprices.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineprices.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineprices.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineprices.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineprices.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":974,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineprices.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineprices.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineprices.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineprices.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineprices.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}