New Toyota Prius is a top hybrid that engages in whole new way

So, we’ve had all this hybrid stuff for over 20 years now — cars powered jointly by a mix of internal combustion engines and batteries — but has it intrinsically changed the world we live in?

Or has it changed the bad habits we have developed and which, we are told, will render our planet unfit for habitation before you can say hybrid synergy drive?

Probably not is the answer, but the facts of the hybrid matter are that Toyota has had the jump on everyone in the hybrid motoring stakes for a long time now and while every other manufacturer worth its salt has followed suit with subtle variants of the Toyota model or, in some few cases, ingenious inventions of their own, the whole saving-the-planet ideal behind the movement still remains a niche thing to the majority of the motoring public worldwide.