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Toyota: if you need them, Prius replacement batteries are "no big deal"

As the first batch of Priuses sold in the United States reach their get ready to turn eight in 2009, the battery replacement issue is going to pop up more and more. We noted back in September that Toyota had dropped the price of a new pack a few hundred dollars to $2,299 for model years 2001-2003 and $2,588 for model years 2004-2008. On the Toyota Open Road blog, editor Jon Thompson has written a post on the strength of the Prius batteries after all these years, with at least one example reaching over 400,000 miles of service. Green Car ... Read more →

ABG speaks with PowerGenix about NiZn batteries Jeremy Korzeniewski

Click above to enlarge We recently got on the phone with Dan Squiller from PowerGenix, a company which hopes to "revolutionize the battery industry" with its new nickel-zinc batteries. The firm's ...

Toyota wonders what comes after lithium? Jeremy Korzeniewski

Even before its first production vehicle ships with a lithium ion battery, Toyota is already making plans for the next wave of energy storage technology. We expect to see Toyota and Lexus products ...

Toyota plans 3 battery plants for hybrid vehicles Jeremy Korzeniewski

Nissan isn't the only Japanese auto manufacturer with big plans for batteries. Toyota will open two new battery plants in Japan and expand a third for the production of nickel metal hydride and ...

GM Awards two lithium-ion battery contracts for PHEV Saturn Vue Sam Abuelsamid

General Motors is moving forward on their plans for a plug-in hybrid version of the Saturn Vue that chairman Rick Wagoner announced at the Los Angeles Auto Show. Today they are awarding development ...

Toyota: if you need them, Prius replacement batteries are "no big deal" 10 months ago on Autoblog Green

As the first batch of Priuses sold in the United States reach their get ready to turn eight in 2009, the battery replacement issue is going to pop up more and more. We noted back in September that Toyota had dropped the price of a new pack a few hundred dollars to $2,299 for model years ...

ABG speaks with PowerGenix about NiZn batteries 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click above to enlarge We recently got on the phone with Dan Squiller from PowerGenix, a company which hopes to "revolutionize the battery industry" with its new nickel-zinc batteries. The firm's batteries will soon make an appearance in power tools and in lawn and garden machinery, with ebikes, ...

Toyota wonders what comes after lithium? 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Even before its first production vehicle ships with a lithium ion battery, Toyota is already making plans for the next wave of energy storage technology. We expect to see Toyota and Lexus products with lithium ion packs sometime around 2010, and Toyota is said to believe that the technology will ...

Toyota plans 3 battery plants for hybrid vehicles 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Nissan isn't the only Japanese auto manufacturer with big plans for batteries. Toyota will open two new battery plants in Japan and expand a third for the production of nickel metal hydride and lithium ion batteries. All of Toyota's current hybrid vehicles use the older nickel-based battery ...

GM Awards two lithium-ion battery contracts for PHEV Saturn Vue 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

General Motors is moving forward on their plans for a plug-in hybrid version of the Saturn Vue that chairman Rick Wagoner announced at the Los Angeles Auto Show. Today they are awarding development contracts to Cobasys and Johnson Controls-Saft to create and test lithium-ion batteries. The ...


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