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10-08-2016, 10:04 AM
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Toyota has long been ambivalent about plug-in electric vehicles. The company’s efficiency strategy has mostly focused on conventional no-plug hybrids. That approach has defied industry expectations. After being dismissed as a gimmick, hybrids now sell in the millions and proliferate throughout the car market. Toyota itself now sells 13 hybrid models. The company has also heavily invested in hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles, a strategy that it acknowledges will take decades to fully materialize.
Meanwhile, Toyota’s forays into pure battery-electric cars have been and remain very tentative, while the plug-in version of the Prius—since its release in 2012 and until last year when it was discontinued—was not competitive in terms of all-electric range, the key metric. Yet, with the introduction of the 2017 Toyota Prius Prime, due in dealerships next month, Toyota’s hesitation with plug-in hybrids appears to be a thing of the past.
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Toyota has long been ambivalent about plug-in electric vehicles. The company’s efficiency strategy has mostly focused on conventional no-plug hybrids. That approach has defied industry expectations. After being dismissed as a gimmick, hybrids now sell in the millions and proliferate throughout the car market. Toyota itself now sells 13 hybrid models. The company has also heavily invested in hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles, a strategy that it acknowledges will take decades to fully materialize.
Meanwhile, Toyota’s forays into pure battery-electric cars have been and remain very tentative, while the plug-in version of the Prius—since its release in 2012 and until last year when it was discontinued—was not competitive in terms of all-electric range, the key metric. Yet, with the introduction of the 2017 Toyota Prius Prime, due in dealerships next month, Toyota’s hesitation with plug-in hybrids appears to be a thing of the past.
read more (http://www.plugincars.com/prius-prime-makes-toyota-legitimate-plug-hybrid-player-132239.html)
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