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Tata Motors urges govt to keep hybrid tax, Toyota lobbies for cut

Baua Electric

Several automakers like Toyota, who have been selling hybrid cars in India have been lobbying for a tax cut on the hybrid vehicles in India. Hybrid cars see higher tax incidence in India compared to their pure petrol counterparts, despite emitting lower pollutants into the environment.

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Toyota RAV4 hybrid SUV spotted testing in Delhi. Launch soon?

Baua Electric

According to reports, Toyota plans to introduce more hybrid vehicles in India after the success of its models like Innova HyCross MPV and Urban Cruiser HyRyder SUV. ARAI is Pune-based Automotive Research Association of India which is responsible to test and evaluate new electric and hybrid vehicles for upcoming launches in India.

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Mazda electric car, VW e-Golf prices, India vs China, green-car deals: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Today, we've got new details on Mazda's 2020 electric car, a deal for Prius owners on a Hyundai hybrid, a longer list of green-car deals for the month, and a significant new report on why smaller turbocharged engines don't deliver what they promise. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Prius smashes Indian sales target

Green Cars News

The Toyota Prius is receiving unexpected levels of interest from potential owners in India just three month after its launch there, one of the country’s websites reports. Tags: Toyota hybrid Indian prius Sales success. According to BSMotoring.com, the hybrid model is exceeding its monthly sales target by more than double.

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Toyota highlights gas engine project as ‘practical’ path to carbon neutrality

Teslarati

Toyota has had a fairly long history of vouching for a gradual transition to battery electric tech, and generally holding off on an “EV-only” approach to electrification—despite being the hybrid pioneer that developed the Prius. the European Union, the United Kingdom, Japan, India, and Australia, among others still.

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Toyota aims for sales of more than 5.5M electrified vehicles including 1M ZEVS per year by 2030; no models developed without electrified version

Green Car Congress

Toyota will accelerate the popularization of BEVs with more than 10 BEV models to be available worldwide by the early 2020s, starting in China, before entering other markets with a gradual introduction to Japan, India, United States and Europe. The FCEV line-up will be expanded for both passenger and commercial vehicles in the 2020s.

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Roskill: automotive batteries and stainless steel to drive nickel demand

Green Car Congress

Mills in these countries rely heavily on primary sources to obtain the nickel units they require, unlike producers in regions such as the EU, or the USA and India, where the use of scrap dominates. Hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) such as the Toyota Prius have been an important market for nickel metal hydride (NiMH) batteries.

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