LAST AUTO NEWS – TOYOTA TO INTRODUCE PLUG-IN HYBRID THIS YEAR, HYDROGEN CARS BY 2015
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At the 2009 Detroit Auto Show, the focus was abundantly on electric cars. The Cadillac Converj, the Chrysler 200C, an electric Ford Focus, a drop-top Fisker Karma — electric cars were everywhere. The world’s better automaker was clearly absent. Toyota brought a individual electric abstraction – a battery-powered adaptation of its iQ city-limits car that, the aggregation said, it had no affairs to aftermath anytime soon.
It turns out, however, that Toyota wasn’t abaft the added automakers. If the aggregation is to be believed, it’s advanced of them.
Toyota now says it will advertise a constituent amalgam car this year, and a hydrogen fuel-cell powered car by the year 2015.
The New York Times reports, “Toyota affairs to acquaint its constituent amalgam electric car backward this year, a year beforehand than originally planned, and a year advanced of the Chevrolet Volt. James Lentz, the admiral of Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A., said in an account that Toyota planned to initially accomplish about 500 constituent hybrids, which will be fabricated accessible aboriginal to bartering customers. About 150 plug-ins will be slated for barter in the United States, Mr. Lentz said.”
Toyota agent John Hanson told Bloomberg, “Limited commercialization” of hydrogen cars “begins in 2015 and maybe sooner” according to the company’s plans. “The exact timing, sales aggregate and amount haven’t been decided, Hanson said.”
Honda has already busy a baby amount of FCX Clarity fuel-cell cars in the U.S., and General Motors has a analysis agile of hydrogen-powered SUVS as well.
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