Although prevention has been the mantra in occupational hearing conservation programs over the years, the hoped-for results have not been realized. Despite years of regulation, hours of training, and ...

ONE of the biggest barriers to effective use of hearing protection devices (HPDs) as the last line of defense against noise in the workplace is that there has never been a good way to test performance ...

Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday it has developed a plug-in hybrid vehicle for public road tests in Japan and plans tests for the U.S. and Europe. Plug-in hybrids, whose batteries can be recharged ...

Toyota Motor Corp., the leading seller of gasoline-electric hybrid vehicles in the U.S., said today that it would partner with two California universities to test so-called plug-in versions of its ...

The U.S. Department of Energy is testing plug-in hybrid cars across the country. Some results are in, and they're not nearly as good as expected. While federal lab tests showed the cars can get more ...

It’s not often we hear about Toyota following GM and Ford in the hybrid race, but today the company announced it would test eight plug-in hybrids on public roads in Japan. The company showed off a ...

When General Motors shut down Saturn late last year, it lost more than a quarter of its sales of hybrid vehicles. Saturn, with no V-8 models, full-size SUVs or pickups, was GM’s most fuel-efficient ...