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Today, Toyota added a new technology to the pool of its hybrid technologies.
The company has developed the first plug-in hybrid vehicle that has been certified for use on public roads in Japan.
The Toyota Plug-in HV uses, like earlier Toyota hybrid vehicles, both a gasoline-powered internal combustion engine and an electric motor. The vehicle uses two nickel-metal hydride secondary batteries; the current Prius hybrid vehicle uses one such battery.
Increased battery capacity gives the vehicle a longer electric-motor-only cruising range, and a battery-charging device allows users to replenish the batteries using household electricity, enabling the vehicle to run more often in gasoline-free, electric-only mode, on short trips in city driving.
Toyota claims that the new vehicle has a cruising range of 13km and a maximum vehicle speed of 100km/h in electric mode.
Toyota considers plug-in hybrid vehicles as a promising technology for using electricity as a viable power source for automobiles.
The company will conduct public-road tests in Japan using eight Plug-in HV vehicles this fall. It also plans to conduct public-road tests in the US and Europe.
Toyota has yet to announce when to commercialize the Plug-in HV.

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  • I want plug up the ...

    I want plug up the ass hybrid car

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  • Flowers? This is ...

    Flowers? This is why i cant yet own a hybrid.

    By bluebike10 [Affiliate User] 1215477452 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • If you live in a ...

    If you live in a condo and your parking spot is far from the condo or if you have to park on the street, where would you plug the car in to recharge it?

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  • Toyota better ...

    Toyota better change that plug to a regular 110Volt plug for the American Market. GM with their EV1 had that crazy plug that you need that special charger for. so long as It comes with both plugs will be ok. so mr toyota, how long are you going to make us wait for this kick ass car here in America. We need one NOW!!!

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  • Fuel cells have a ...

    Fuel cells have a life span of 3 to 4 years.
    Ni-Mh batteries can last for ten years.

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  • HAL11000 Of ...

    HAL11000

    Of course hydrogen is only a carrier of energy, everyone older than 12 knows that. But the point is that it is a MUCH more efficiënt carrier of energy than batteries are, and it doesn't wear out like the latter do.

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  • how much are those!

    how much are those!

    By JohnyRockets123 [Affiliate User] 1194658507 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Yeah, but the range ...

    Yeah, but the range is kinda wimpy for a plugin hybrid. Only about 25 mile range.

    And it uses NiMH instead of Li-Ion, or Li-Polymer.

    _

    And yes, Hydrogen unless it's merely an elaborate method of of burning natural gas, it's going to produce more CO2 than gasoline.

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  • About time! ...

    About time! Everyone should write to Toyota and tell them to mass-produce this car.

    By jdoniach [Affiliate User] 1185877919 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Plug-ins are AWSOME ...

    Plug-ins are AWSOME! But hydrogen SUCKS! The H-car mabe 'clean its self' But the trouble is that making hydrogen requires more energy than the hydrogen so produced can provide. Hydrogen, therefore, is not a source of energy. It simply is a carrier of energy.

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  • I can't believe ...

    I can't believe Toyota is finnaly doing this!

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