Dodge announced the RAM1500
Dodge announced the RAM1500 Hybrid - which improves fuel mileage by about 3 mpg over the non-hybrid version. Yes, you read that correctly - a 3 mpg improvement. This is what happens when you take an existing pickup design and drop a mild hybrid power plant into it and call it a day. And it underscores why Toyota shouldn't take the existing Tacoma and put a hybrid drive system into it. They need a ground up redesign in order to launch a hybrid truck that would be worth buying. I think they would need to go to a unibody design, incorporate a CVT, dramatically lighten the vehicle wherever possible and design a body profile that would be substantially more aerodynamic. In other words, instead of adapting a Tacoma, they probably should consider launching a new truck model that was designed from beginning to end to be a hybrid pickup. Without a single doubt, I would buy it.