Honda Motor Co.'s brand-new Insight hybrid cars are on display during its unveiling in Tokyo Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009. The price of the five-seater hatchback powered with a combination of a 1.3-liter gasoline engine and an electric motor starts at 1,890,000 yen (US$21,000) in Japanese market. AP Photo logo AP Photo 12 months ago

Honda Motor Co.'s brand-new Insight hybrid cars are on display during its unveiling in Tokyo Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009. The price of the five-seater hatchback powered with a combination of a 1.3-liter gasoline engine and an electric motor starts at 1,890,000 yen (US$21,000) in Japanese market.

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  1. Toyota Motor Corp. Managing Officer Hiroyuki Yokoyama, right, bows after submitting the company's formal recall notice for its 2010 Prius gas-electric hybrid and two other hybrid models to Ryuji Masuno, director general of the Road Transport Bureau of the Transport Ministry, at the ministry in Tokyo, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Toyota is recalling nearly 200,000 of its signature Prius green cars in Japan for braking problems, the latest in a string of embarrassing safety problems at the world's largest automaker.
  2. Toyota Motor Corp. Managing Officer Hiroyuki Yokoyama, right, submits the company's formal recall notice for its 2010 Prius gas-electric hybrid and two other hybrid models to Ryuji Masuno, director general of the Road Transport Bureau of the Transport Ministry, at the ministry in Tokyo, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Toyota is recalling nearly 200,000 of its signature Prius green cars in Japan for braking problems, the latest in a string of embarrassing safety problems at the world's largest automaker.
  3. Members of the media drive electric vehicles during the inauguration of Better Place's new vehicle demonstration center in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv February 7, 2010. At least 45,000 electric cars will be running on Israeli roads within five years, according to Better Place which is building networks of charging stations in Israel, Denmark and Australia.
  4. An electric car is driven by a member of the media during the inauguration of Better Place's new vehicle demonstration center in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv February 7, 2010. At least 45,000 electric cars will be running on Israeli roads within five years, according to Better Place which is building networks of charging stations in Israel, Denmark and Australia.
  5. Shai Agassi (R), Better Place founder and chief executive, throws an ignition card over an electric car during the inauguration of a new vehicle demonstration center in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv February 7, 2010. At least 45,000 electric cars will be running on Israeli roads within five years, according to Better Place which is building networks of charging stations in Israel, Denmark and Australia.
  6. Shai Agassi, Better Place founder and chief executive, walks in front of an electric car during the inauguration of a new vehicle demonstration center in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv February 7, 2010. Better Place's concept is for battery-swapping stations to complement a network of charge spots so electric cars such as partner Renault's planned Zoe can extend its range without the need of an additional back-up engine that burns fossil fuel.
  7. An electric car is seen during a demonstration of the California-based company Better Place in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. The developers of a new electric vehicle say Israel is on schedule to inaugurate a revolutionary electric car grid by next year, with dozens of recharge stations and thousands of cars on the road.
  8. An electric car is seen during a demonstration of the California-based company Better Place in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. The developers of a new electric vehicle say Israel is on schedule to inaugurate a revolutionary electric car grid by next year, with dozens of recharge stations and thousands of cars on the road.
  9. An electric car is connected into power supply at a recharge station during a demonstration of the California-based company Better Place in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. The developers of a new electric vehicle say Israel is on schedule to inaugurate a revolutionary electric car grid by next year, with dozens of recharge stations and thousands of cars on the road.
  10. An electric car is connected into power supply at a recharge station during a demonstration of the California-based company Better Place in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. The developers of a new electric vehicle say Israel is on schedule to inaugurate a revolutionary electric car grid by next year, with dozens of recharge stations and thousands of cars on the road.
  11. In this photo taken on Feb. 2, 2010, Daryl Scott, left, and Ted Rousseau dig out cars at Rousseau's father's auto service center in Ridgeview, S.D., a community on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, while Rousseau's son Kaden, 5, looks on. The cars were buried by an ice storm and blizzard that swept through the region nearly two weeks earlier. Power outages in the Dakotas caused by a late January ice storm followed by a blizzard are down to fewer than 100 rural electric customers.
  12. Toyota Motor's logos are seen at its dealer shop in Tokyo January 18, 2010. Toyota Motor Corp aims to double its global output of gas-electric hybrid cars to 1 million units in 2011, as it fights to stay in the lead in the growing market for low-emission cars, the Nikkei business reported on Monday.
  13. The Commuter Cars Tango electric car is taken for a test drive on the "The EcoXperience" indoor test drive track at the 2010 North American International Auto Show during press days in Detroit, Michigan January 12, 2010.
  14. The Commuter Cars Tango electric car is seen at the 2010 North American International Auto Show during press days in Detroit, Michigan January 12, 2010.
  15. Rick Woodbury, President of Commuter Cars, sits in the Tango electric car at the 2010 North American International Auto Show during press days in Detroit, Michigan January 12, 2010.
  16. The Commuter Cars Tango electric car is seen at the 2010 North American International Auto Show during press days in Detroit, Michigan January 12, 2010.

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