
At the center of this green vehicle plan, of course, is a spin-off of the Toyota Prius. The FT-CH concept highlighted ...


Visitors to the recent Los Angeles Auto Show were treated to the North American debut of Toyota’s 2010 Prius Plug-in Hybrid. The 2010 Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid is built on the same platform as the third-generation Prius but features a first-generation lithium-ion battery. Toyota noted that the plug-in version of its popular hybrid was possible due to one million miles and three years of testing on this new battery. The Prius Plug-in Hybrid will start road testing throughout the world at ...

The Idaho National Laboratory and the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois conduct PHEV testing as part of the Department of Energy’s Advanced Vehicle Testing Activity (AVTA). Both laboratories and their public and private partners recently celebrated 1 million miles of PHEV road testing. This testing involves 204 PHEVs charging more than 26,000 times throughout North America. The AVTA program spans from 59 test PHEVs in California ...


Toyota is using its Lexus HS 250h as the basis for a compact luxury hybrid called the Sai. The Toyota Sai will make its debut in Japanese showrooms on December 7, 2009 with a limited rollout in the first quarter of 2010. Toyota states that it has an initial sales goal of 3,000 units per month before an expanded rollout will be considered. The Sai may be focused on the luxury market in Japan but Toyota’s use of efficient drive components can be replicated in other market niches.
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