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Toyota Motor Manufacturing Turkey to become Toyota’s first European plant to produce plug-in-hybrid vehicles and batteries

Green Car Congress

Available in hybrid and plug-in hybrid versions, the new Toyota C-HR will also be the first plug-in hybrid passenger car to be produced in Turkey. In addition, TMMT will be Toyota’s first European plant to start producing plug-in hybrid vehicles, and the first to be equipped with a battery production line.

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The anti-EV brigade are pushing plug-in hybrids. But electric is still the future

The Driven EV News

US media is desperately pushing plug in hybrids, even though they cannot deliver the same climate benefits, or savings to consumers. The post The anti-EV brigade are pushing plug-in hybrids. But electric is still the future appeared first on The Driven.

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Are Plug-In Hybrids the Future?

The Truth About Cars

On today's podcast, we ponder if plug-in hybrids are the future, talk Tesla and Ram, and ruminate on our first races attended as fans. It's just Chris and I this go 'round, though Matthew Guy does drop by to chat car-wash soaps.

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Next-gen batteries may benefit plug-in hybrids as much as EVs

Green Car Reports

Plug-in hybrids with twice as much range are about to become the hot new thing. In interviews at the 2024 New York auto show, two executives familiar with their brands’ future products independently told Green.

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First drive: Honda says its CR-V e:FCEV plug-in fuel cell hybrid is the future. Is it?

Electrek

Honda invited us out to its US R&D Center in Torrance, California to drive the new fuel cell plug-in hybrid version of the CR-V, which gets released later this year. Is this first-ever hybrid between a battery EV and fuel cell EV the future of electric cars?

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Mercedes-Maybach launches its first plug-in hybrid model, initially in China

Green Car Congress

Mercedes‑Maybach has launched its first plug-in hybrid: the Mercedes‑Maybach S 580. With our first plug-in hybrid model, we are combining the luxury experience typical of Maybach with emission-free local driving when in electric driving mode. We will present our first fully electric model as early as 2023.

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Future Toyota Prime plug-in hybrids: How much range and performance?

Green Car Reports

There will be future Prime plug-in hybrids from Toyota. Just don’t necessarily expect them to raise the bar for the genre quite like the RAV4 Prime.

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