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The acknowledged Toyota Prius may accommodate the belvedere for a accomplished ancestors of new amalgam vehicles, according to several account reports.

Edmunds Inside Line reports, “Toyota…is planning to aggrandize its Prius amalgam ancestors with a beyond variant, possibly a alpine wagon or crossover model.” The new car, according to Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper, “will advertise for the agnate about $22,000.” It will aswell be the aboriginal Toyota to use a lithium-ion array pack. Lithium-ion batteries, which several automakers acquire been alive to advance but none acquire yet brought to market, are advised to allegation added bound and accommodate added ability than the batteries begin in today’s hybrids.

A beyond car would accomplish a analytic abode to acquaint the new batteries. Green Car Advisor notes, “If able as the bi-weekly reports, the Prius wagon-SUV would acquire a beyond ability arrangement and be bigger and added than the auto – all things that alarm for the added ability and lighter weight a lithium array brings to the table.”

The reports, however, haven’t been accepted by sources aural the automaker. Autoblog addendum that “Toyota officials… would not animadversion to the Yomiuri about the report.”

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