Teslarati

JUNE 15, 2023

Toyota will apply its bipolar nickel-metal hydride batteries used by Aqua and Crown hybrid vehicles to its battery electric vehicles (BEV). Toyota has steep BEV goals for the next few years as it adapts to an ever-changing auto industry. The Japanese automaker plans to sell 1.5 million BEV units by 2026.

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Toyota Nickel Metal Hydride Miles Range 86

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2013

This is sorely needed, and no one else in the auto industry has anything like it. In the span of 15 years, the industry has gone from lead-acid to nickel-metal-hydride to the lithium-ion batteries used in Ford C-MAX and Ford Fusion hybrids on the road today.

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Michigan Universal Ford Nickel Metal Hydride 312

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Toyotas Nickel-Metal Hydride batteries are considered "non-hazardous waste" [See "high voltage electrical systems" ]. Objections have come from those who say that this name puts advocates on the defensive to auto industry views that plugging in is bad (Ads for hybrids emphasize that "you dont have to plug it in.").

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PHEV Nickel Metal Hydride Prius EPRI 37

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

This is key." ( Wall Street Journal ) 1/17/08 The handful in demonstration service now use nickel-metal hydride batteries and will shift to lithium as Toyota begins putting 400 plug-in Priuses into demonstration service worldwide beginning late next year or early 2010. (

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Plug-in Plug Hybrid PHEV 45

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Today we could be using lead-acid EVs, lead-carbon-acid EVs, or nickel metal hydride or lithium-ion hybrids. Did you really expect the domestic auto industry to maintain marketshare when we opened our market to free trade without first getting commitments from those other countries to open theirs?

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Manufacturer Electric Cars Cars i-MiEV 34