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Toyota Hybrid Breakthrough! One-mile EV Range Highlander Hybrid!

Plugs and Cars

AutoBlogGreen has the details on the '08 Highlander, and it includes an EV mode! Mistakenly blaming the battery type (NiMH) for the meager all-electric performance, AutoBlogGreen remains as confused as most auto journalists about plugs and cars, plug-in hybrids, electric cars, and batteries. Theoretically, yes.

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Hybrid Fans to Toyota: The Next Step is Plug-in Hybrids

Plugs and Cars

This year Toyota makes its SUVs and trucks even larger. Toyota increasingly devotes precious energy contained in hybrid batteries charged with expensive gasoline to higher power output rather than efficiency. Toyota's own "Question of the Month" in the Hybrid Synergy View Newsletter , asked. What do people actually want?

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Soot and Spin: Two Plug-in Paradoxes

Plugs and Cars

Required reading: Bill Moore's EVWorld review and Martin Zimmerman's LA Times piece about their test drives of the Toyota Plug-in Prius and the hydrogen fuel cell Highlander FCHV. And these advocates have successfully prodded Toyota to dangle a concept PHEV before our eyes. To take one example, batteries.

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Reports: Ferrari working on a hybrid car

Green Cars News

Currently the Toyota Highlander Hybrid boasts a similar system that puts petrol power down at the front wheels and electric power at the rear wheels. Tags: Green cars Hybrid cars Latest news Ferrari Ferrari hybrid car Ferrari hybrid patent. seconds per lap delivering an 82hp boost for passing other cars.

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Toyota Concerned About Market Viability of Plug-ins, Sees Clear Path to Commercialization of Fuel Cell Technology in 2015

Green Car Congress

As Toyota learned with the introduction of the Prius and its efforts on the 2002 RAV4 EV, O’Brien said, it is difficult to force technology adoption by consumers. We believe at Toyota that hybrids have successfully passed the threshold into the early mass market, perhaps the first advanced [vehicle] technology to achieve that goal.

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Toyota questions viability of plug-in technology

Green Cars News

Japanese car manufacturer Toyota may be seen as the hybrid car king, but it has openly called into question the viability of plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles. According to Michael O’Brien, the company’s US corporate manager, Toyota has key questions regarding market acceptance for the technology and who the target buyers might be.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. Batteries not ready. Hyundai Partnering with Korean battery companies for hybrids. 2010 Prius designed to be manufactured with NiMH or Lithium batteries.

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