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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 ...

GM having problems with Cobasys batteries in mild hybrids Jeremy Korzeniewski

Click the Saturn Vue Hybrid for a high res gallery It's no secret that General Motors' hybrid sales are nothing to brag about, especially when compared to cross-town rival Ford and, especially, ...

Honda and Toyota to lower hybrid battery replacement costs Jeremy Korzeniewski

Rendering of the Chevy Volt battery pack As hybrid models such as the original Toyota Prius and Honda Insight get older, consumers are beginning to wonder how much it will cost them if the battery ...

Has there been a battery "breakthrough" in South Africa? 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

OK, doubters, get your comments ready. South Africa's Cape Times is reporting on an hybrid battery "breakthrough". This is hybrid as in a battery that can charge and discharge simultaneously, not hybrid as in vehicles (the article can be read here). The new battery was developed over seven years by ...

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