Toyota Sets Date to Mass Produce Plug-ins

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Muhammed El-Hasan
on July 6, 2009 10:55 AM | | Comments (0) |

I'm surprised it took Toyota this long.

Toyota to mass produce plug-in hybrids from 2012: report

TOKYO (Reuters) --Toyota Motor Corp plans to start mass producing plug-in hybrid vehicles in 2012, with a projected first-year output of about 20,000 to 30,000 units, the Nikkei business daily reported on Saturday.

Toyota has said it would start leasing 500 plug-in cars globally by the end of this year, primarily for government and corporate use, but has not said when it would commercialize them.

Plug-ins can be cleaner than regular hybrids as they can run purely on electricity but the need for more batteries makes them expensive.

Read more on Toyota's plug-ins.

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