Consumer Center

Here you'll find a number of key consumer resources to find out how hybrid vehicles might fit into your lifestyle, detailed comparisons of hybrid technologies, reviews, and comments from current hybrid owners around the nation.

Buyer's Guide

Answer a series of questions about your driving habits and our guide will not only tell you how a hybrid vehicle fits into your lifestyle, but also offer key facts about each hybrid model. More than that, you'll get great tips you can take with you to the showroom to make sure you get the hybrid you want when you want it. 
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Comparison Chart

Are you interested in seeing how hybrid vehicles stack up against each other and against typical conventional vehicles in their class? This comprehensive chart gives you everything from gas mileage and environmental performance to cargo space, retail price, and even state-by-state incentives. All the information is customized to provide you with the most thorough and accurate picture of hybrid vehicles on the market today.
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Who's Got Hybrids?

Your very own online test drive, courtesy of drivers just like you. This feature is a slide show complete with photographs and personal experiences of hybrid owners all over the country. They tell their stories, good and bad, giving you a real-world snapshot of hybrids on the road today. Are you a hybrid owner with a story to tell? 
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Reviews

UCS vehicle engineers recommend the most comprehensive hybrid vehicle road-test reviews currently available on the Web.
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State-by-State Hybrid Incentives

A complete listing of both state and federal incentives for buyers of hybrid vehicles. We have included incentives both enacted and under consideration to give you the most comprehensive look at the hybrid incentive landscape. Know of an incentive we didn't include? Please email us and let us know about it.
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Hybrid Timeline

Want to know the history of hybrid passenger vehicles, and what models may be coming down the road?  The Hybrid Timeline gives you a full account of mass-produced models, key events, concept cars, and an important caveat for present and future "hollow hybrids."
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Best of the Blog

The most pertinent and useful consumer, policy, and technical information from our sister site, HybridBlog.org put together in an easy-to-search format.
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You can find more hybrid consumer items by going to our Hybrid News and Hybrid Watchdog pages.

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