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With electric cars acceptable more consumer-friendly, it was alone a amount of time afore Toyota and Honda got into the game. There is one problem, however. The electric cars the two companies showed at the 2010 Los Angeles Auto Appearance aren’t absolutely ready.

Toyota’s teased electric Rav4, which was co-developed with Tesla Motors, was “introduced as a ‘demonstration vehicle,’ of which 35 will be congenital for testing purposes in 2011,” writes KickingTires.

But, Toyota admiral are hinting that electric cars will not be its alone alms to blooming buyers. The Wall Street Journal letters that “Toyota admiral played down the angle that electric cars are the ascendant beachcomber of the approaching for automotive technology. Instead, they depicted it as one of several technologies aggressive in the environmentally-friendly, high-fuel-efficiency alcove of the market.” Sounds like Toyota is still action on the success of its amalgam lineup.

Meanwhile, the adventure at Honda is not abundant different. Although it apparent the Fit EV, there is still plan to be done. As it stands now, Honda says the Fit EV can sustain an electric allegation for up to 100 miles.

Though that sounds on par with the Nissan Leaf, Autoblog writes the Fit EV is still in the abstraction stage, admitting “Honda affairs to advertise a assembly adaptation of the Fit EV ancient in 2012, and agile testing of the electric bear will arise in the advancing months.”

If you’ve been arcade electric cars and haven’t been too afflicted with the Chevrolet Volt or Nissan Leaf, it is acceptable that those two will be your alone options in the abreast term. From what Toyota and Honda showed at the 2010 LA Auto Show, it doesn’t attending like any electric car should be accepted from either architect until at atomic 2012.

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