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Officially, official: Toyota will lease 150 plug-in Priuses in Europe starting in late 2009

We heard in March that Toyota would bring 100 plug-in Priuses to Strasbourg, France. The company has now spelled out more of its European PHEV Prius roll-out plans, and the highlight is a total of 500 new-generation plug-in Priuses in operation in Europe, Japan and the US by 2010. In Europe, the new-generation PHEV Priuses will come to Strasbourg first, and communities in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands are among the potential test areas that will get the next wave by mid-2010. Unlike the first-generation Chevy Volts, Toyota will be ... Read more →

Toyota wants hybrids across the board, remains dubious of plug-ins Sam Abuelsamid

Speaking at this week's Management Briefing Seminars in Traverse City, MI, Toyota advanced powertrain program manager Justin Ward reiterated the company's plans to offer hybrid drive systems in every ...

First International Plug-In Hybrid Convention Shannon Arvizu

"Plug-In 2008: A Short Drive to Tomorrow" is the world's first convention dedicated exclusively to plug-in hybrid technology. The event tales place next week, July 21-24, in San Jose, CA. See the ...

Converted Plug-In Prius destroyed by fire! Sam Abuelsamid

The first known instance of a plug-in hybrid car going up in flames occurred on June 7 in Columbia, South Carolina to a 2008 Prius that had been converted to plug-in capability for the Central ...

95 years for a PHEV conversion to pay for itself in gas savings? Sam Abuelsamid

Last year, Google made some waves when they announced the RechargeIT project to convert a fleet of Toyota Priuses and Ford Escape hybrids to plug-in capability. The company has just issued their ...

Toyota PHEV test program to expand to Europe 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Earlier this summer Toyota announced plans to start testing some plug-in versions of the Prius in Japan. That announcement was quickly followed by two of the PHEV Priuses coming to California and now the program is hopping another ocean. Following up on the rumors circulating over the weekend, ...

Specs of the plug-in Prius Toyota is testing in Japan 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

I'm just going to assume you've heard that Toyota is testing a plug-in Prius on public roads in Japan. If this has slipped by you, check out the links below. Otherwise, you know that the PHEV uses the standard nickel metal hydride batteries, not new and fancy lithium ion batteries. So, what does the ...


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