Toyota Wants Autonomous 'Guardian Angel' To Help Drivers

The all-new 2017 Prius Prime is coming to a showroom near you this fall 2016. Fortunately, you don't have to wait until then to get a little preview at what's to come.
The Lamar Buffalo Ranch is an off-grid ranch located inside Yellowstone National Park. In an attempt to conserve resources and maintain one of the few pristine pieces of nature in the United States, Toyota gave the ranch 208 reused Toyota Camry Hybrid batteries to store energy collected by solar panels. The solar panels generate renewable energy, which is then stored inside the Camry Hybrid battery packs, which were recovered from Toyota dealers nationwide. Check out the video below to learn even more.
Given the recent launch of an all-new Toyota Prius, this one built on an entirely new platform, the followup of a plug-in version should come as no surprise. Yet the 2017 Toyota Prius Prime, launched at the New York Auto Show, doubles the electric range of its predecessor, and claims an efficiency figure of 120 miles-per-gallon -equivalent (MPGe).
For power, Toyota augments the new Prius Prime's 1.8-liter gasoline engine with an electric drive…