Toyota amps up its battery plans
Toyota is spending $192 million dollars on a new battery manufacturing plant to produce NiMH batteries for its hybrid vehicles. With a limited number of batteries already limiting Toyota hybrid production and the launch of the third …
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The final level of hybridization extends the electric motor’s capacity to drive the car by recharging the battery from a clean energy grid (ie %26quot;plug in%26quot;). This would allow the hybrid to operate solely as a battery-electric vehicle for …
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Toyota Boosting Hybrid Battery Production
… easier-to-produce plug-in hybrid cars and trucks. Industry analysts at Global Insight said in a subscription-only report that Toyota’s plant-building plan %26quot;confirms%26quot; that Toyota %26quot;has broken through the technical reliability …
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How to Eco-Pimp Your Prius With a Plug
For those of you who already own your own hybrid, and weren’t tempted by these 6 electric cars you can buy right now, we’ve gotta tip for you. Give your old hybrid a plug. While getting 50 miles per gallon in your Toyota Prius surely …
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An Increasing Priority: Fuel-Efficient Automobiles
It may be an ugly duckling without much power, but unlike most other hybrid cars, the Prius’s hatchback design gives it very good cargo capacity. The Toyota Camry Hybrid has a bigger back seat but a pocket-size trunk. …
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Toyota building $192M green-car battery plant
Toyota has said the lithium-ion batteries may be used in plug-in hybrids, which can be recharged from a home electrical outlet. Rebecca Lindland, an industry research director at Global Insight, said hybrids are increasingly attractive …
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Toyota building green-car battery plants
Toyota has said the lithium-ion batteries may be used in plug-in hybrids, which can be recharged from a home electrical outlet. The world’s other major automakers are also working on environmentally friendly cars, and the race is on to …
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Toyota To Offer Own Plug-in Hybrid Car
A Toyota executive said that he is pushing his company’s engineers to develop a plug-in hybrid-vehicle that is powered by a lithium-ion battery before 2010. This statement from Katsuaki Watanabe is sure to push the race between Toyota …
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Honda to roll out cheap new hybrid model in early ‘09
Nissan Motor Co, Japan’s No.3 automaker, is due to launch its own, in-house developed hybrid car in 2010, the same year General Motors Corp plans to launch its plug-in hybrid, the Chevrolet Volt. Honda shares ended down 2 percent in a …
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Will Honda beat Toyota in gas-electric hybrid segment?
In 2006, it pulled the plug on the slow-selling Insight hybrid. Over the past decade, Toyota has sold more than a million Prius gas-electric hybrid cars worldwide. When including other hybrid models, cumulative overall sales of …
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