Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

The Panasonic Group will supply the lithium-ion batteries for Toyota Motor Corporation’s Prius Plug-in Hybrid. This will be the first time for the Panasonic Group to supply its lithium-ion batteries for a mass production plug-in hybrid vehicle. Li-ion cell for Prius PHV. Earlier post.) Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Toyota Motor Europe (TME) reported that sales of hybrids have increased 45% so far this year compared with the same period in 2015—which was already a record year. The company is tracking to sell close to 300,000 hybrids this year, said Karl Schlicht, Executive Vice President of TME. —Karl Schlicht. To date, 1.5

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 28, 2020

What started with the Prius has now hit 15 million. Hyundai hybrids tackle battery downsizing with a novel approach. Chicago has made a move that requires more charge points to be installed in large-scale residential and commercial development. And Chicago is requiring more EV charge points. It might seem.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2011

The new Toyota Prius α hybrid vehicle features automotive interiors made of DuPont Sorona EP polymer, a high-performance, renewably sourced thermoplastic resin. Toyota launched the Prius α in Japan in May 2011. and Howa Plastics Co.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2011

Annual Toyota hybrid sales. Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announced global cumulative sales of its hybrid vehicles have topped the 3-million mark, with more than 3.03 In Japan, TMC launched the Coaster Hybrid EV in August 1997 and the Prius in December. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Toyota has been continuously evolving nickel-metal hydride batteries and lithium-ion batteries for hybrids by taking advantage of their respective characteristics. Toyota also aims to commercialize all-solid-state batteries. We feel that having identified an issue has brought us one step closer to commercialization.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

The Toyota Prius may be the most popular hybrid model of the many Toyota sells. But the company''s largest hybrid vehicle weighs more than six new 2014 Prius Liftbacks when it''s fully loaded. Its gross.'

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) and the Chinese government-affiliated China Automotive Technology and Research Center (CATARC) have agreed agreement to conduct joint verification tests of the Prius Plug-in Hybrid"in Tianjin. The vehicle is scheduled for commercial launch at the start of 2012.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2009

plans to begin commercial production in 2012 of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). PEVE provides the NiMH packs for current Toyota hybrids. The report suggests that the 2012 plug-in hybrids will have an all-electric range of 20-30km (12-18 miles). The Nikkei reports that Toyota Motor Corp. Panasonic EV Energy Co.

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AUGUST 5, 2010

Annual sales of TMC hybrids in Japan and globally. Cumulative sales in Japan of its Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) hybrid vehicles have topped the 1-million mark, while more than 2.68 The Prius has been the top-seller in Japan for the last fourteen months ( earlier post ). Tags: Hybrids Sales. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Annual global sales of TMC hybrids. Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) has cumulatively sold more than 2 million hybrid vehicles since the launch in 1997 in Japan of the Coaster Hybrid EV in August and the Prius in December. On May 31, 2007, the global cumulative sales of TMC’s hybrid vehicles had topped 1 million.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2010

Powertrain components of the Prius PHV. Toyota, French energy provider EDF, and the City and the Urban Community of Strasbourg launched a large-scale, 3-year Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle demonstration in Strasbourg. Tags: Europe Hybrids Plug-ins Trials. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2021

In the second phase, SwRI will work to build on those technologies and expand its predictive eco-routing, eco-driving and hybrid power control strategies. E advisors, to expand and accelerate commercialization efforts underway from NEXTCAR I. —Sankar Rengarajan, manager of SwRI’s Powertrain Controls Section.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2011

turbocharged direct injection diesels or hybrids—retain more value than a paired conventional vehicle—i.e., Regardless of the mechanism, they concluded, the higher resale prices justify the higher capital cost for the diesel and hybrid passenger cars and for larger diesel trucks on a total cost of ownership basis.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2009

The 2015 date for fuel cell vehicles reinforced remarks made in June by vice president Masatami Takimoto about commercialization prospects.( He noted that it took seven years even for “successful” hybrid electric vehicles to reach annual sales of 100,000 units globally. Earlier post.). Why fuel-cell vehicles?

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Toyota’s Prius C is back in other world markets—sort of. DHL is going light with electric commercial vehicles. Electric long-haul trucks like the upcoming Tesla Semi might not have operating-cost advantages over diesel, a new analysis suggests. And 800V systems might be closer to the mass market than previously suggested.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Toyota’s electrified vehicle strategy centers on a significant acceleration in the development and launch plans of hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), battery-electric vehicles (BEVs), and fuel-cell electric vehicles (FCEVs). By around 2030, Toyota aims to have annual sales of more than 5.5

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Wolfspeed, A Cree Company, a leading global supplier of silicon carbide (SiC) power products, won a 2016 R&D 100 Award for its high-temperature, wide-bandgap (WBG) underhood inverter for hybrid and electric vehicles. The product operates by taking a two-level high and low input DC voltage (i.e.,

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DECEMBER 6, 2016

In Japan, Toyota Motor Corporation unveiled new advanced engines and transmissions and further evolved hybrid systems based on the Toyota New Global Architecture (TNGA). Powertrain evolution targeted by TNGA, based on improving and maximizing the efficiency of powertrain systems (engines, transmissions and hybrid systems).

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JULY 12, 2009

For the test drive, the company modified a Toyota Prius using commercially available components. cells compared with the chemistries of selected commercial batteries. Commercial ETVM. Tags: Hybrids Plug-ins. The company had closed a $12M Series A round in April. Earlier post.). cell; and LMNS/LiTiO to form a 3.2V

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 27, 2011

Modern hybrid-electric vehicles were first commercialized by Toyota, with its 1997 Prius (sold in the U.S. But many concepts, development vehicles, one-offs, and other technology experiments preceded that first Prius. starting in 2000).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Through activities such as launching the Prius, the world’s first mass production hybrid vehicle (HV), in 1997, and the Mirai fuel cell vehicle (FCV) in 2014, Toyota has a record of taking on difficult challenges with varying degrees of success in its effort to realize a sustainable mobility society.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Ford’s rollout of electrified vehicles began in December 2010 with the 2011 Ford Transit Connect Electric—a small commercial van built in collaboration with Azure Dynamics. The C-MAX Hybrid and C-MAX Energi use the company’s next-generation powersplit hybrid technology in combination with a lighter, smaller lithium-ion battery system.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Within the fleet, they considered only vehicles of similar size and acceleration performance to the Toyota Prius. Prior studies compare and select among a small set of fixed vehicle configurations based on selected commercially available vehicles or a small set of simulated vehicle alternatives.

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Plug-in Plug Hybrid Electric Vehicles 210

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2011

Toyota also will bring to market in 2012 the Prius Plug-in Hybrid vehicle, which combines an extended all-electric range for shorter commutes with a conventional hybrid synergy drive for longer trips. Leviton’s support includes program management of a certified installation team and an extensive customer service center.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Currently, the trials are monitoring 51 commercial charge points, 720 publicly-accessible charging points and 31 residential charge points, which will increase over the coming months. UK Power Networks already has 75 Toyota Prius hybrid electric cars, plus about 1,100 mainly diesel vehicles.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Ovshinsky, credited with developing the first commercially successful hybrid battery technology, as used in Toyota’s Prius, has died aged 89.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Additionally, an energy management system that combines solar power generation with storage batteries made by recycling used batteries from Prius hybrid vehicles has been put into operation. This project represents the first operational start within a commercial environment. kW have been installed.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Toyota Motor Corporation will carry out verification tests in Aichi Prefecture, Japan from November 15, 2013 to March 15, 2014 to assess the practicality of the widespread deployment of chargers for plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHVs) and electric vehicles (EVs). Additional coin-operated chargers (¥100 / US$1.02

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 13, 2021

Ignoring the briefly popular commercial electrics around at the turn of the last century, EVs have been experimental concepts or limited edition runs until relatively recently. Battery-gasoline hybrids go back more than 20 years to the first Toyota Prius, but real mainstream battery-only electric EVs are only in their second decade.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2009

The third phase of a SDG&E multi-year in-use study on plug-in hybrid electric vehicles showed that plug-in hybrids offer significant improvements in gas mileage and reductions in emissions when compared with standard hybrid-electric and gasoline internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. One of SDG&E’s converted PHEVs.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2014

Toyota Motor continues to lay the foundation for the introduction of its production fuel cell hybrid vehicle in 2015; the company began work on fuel cell technology in 1992. From March 2006 he was engaged in Plug-in Hybrid vehicle planning and development, and, in 2007, became planning and development leader for the Prius Plug-in project.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

EnergyCS had earlier developed one of the first commercial plug-in hybrid conversion kits for the Prius. EnergyCS has succeeded in the goal of developing the most advanced battery management system that ensures the safety, performance and reliability of battery systems for electric and hybrid vehicles. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Costs of light-duty plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) are high—largely due to their lithium-ion batteries—and unlikely to drastically decrease in the near future, according to a new report from the National Research Council (NRC). At this point, however, it is not clear what sorts of breakthroughs might become commercially viable.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2009

billion) for fiscal 2010 (ending 31 March 2010), Toyota Motor Corporation said it will try to recover through a more selective deployment of its resources, with a focus on hybrids, compacts and cost-reduction. All totaled, we plan to launch four hybrid models in Japan and three models overseas within this fiscal year.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2009

Toyota Motor Europe (TME) will lease more than 150 units of its experimental Plug-in Hybrid Vehicle (PHV) to selected fleet customers across Europe as a next step towards commercialization. In the future, the PHV will be the perfect complement to Prius. Tags: Europe Hybrids Plug-ins.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 19, 2009

Car club company, Streetcar is to be the first in the UK to begin hiring out a plug-in Prius. The modified version of the hybrid car, provided by lithium battery experts, Amberjac Projects, features a lithium ion phosphate battery that can be charged from the mains, allowing the car to travel up to 30 miles without using a drop of fuel.

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