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Toyota CEO confirms lithium batteries for next-gen Prius

Click on the photo for a gallery of high-res images of the Hybrid-X Concept Toyota CEO Katsuaki Watanabe spoke to BusinessWeek recently and confirmed that the next-generation Prius will definitely have a lithium ion battery when it comes out later in 2008. Watanabe also said that Toyota was focusing on improving both the performance and efficiency of their third-generation hybrid system. The target is to cut both the size and the cost of the next-generation hybrid system by half. Watanabe acknowledged that they had concerns with the ... Read more →

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