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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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By 2020, [Masatami Takimoto, executive vice president in charge of powertrain development] said he expected hybrids to become the standard drivetrain and account for "100 percent" of Toyotas vehicles.He Auto-week ) 5/10/07 "Toyota Motor Corp. For that reason, he says Toyota isnt working on a plug-in hybrid.

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