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Lexus prices new three-row RX 450hL hybrid starting at $50,620

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Lexus introduced the first luxury hybrid—the 2006 RX 400h—and now holds 40% of the US luxury hybrid market. Lexus designed the third row of the RXL models to offer the same comfort and luxury as in the middle row. The RX 450hL is set to go on sale at dealers in April.

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CalCars and PHEVs Frequently Asked Questions

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Nickel-metal hydride batteries, proven for many years in hybrids to be safe, could go into PHEVs today -- they would be designed more like the ones Toyota put in its 2002 RAV4 EV compact all-electric SUV than like current hybrid batteries. Please see the related Hybridcars.com article Are Hybrid Batteries Toxic?

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