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Toyota to Move to All Hybrid Vehicles By 2012

Posted by michael on from the no-flying-cars dept.

ftumph writes "Toyota has announced that all their vehicles will be gas-electric hybrids by 2012. The plan is to eliminate the current $3,000 per vehicle additional cost for hybrid engines through mass production."

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  1. Re:This is good news, but costs far outweigh benef by jelle · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Wow I wish Sony used those batteries on the Vaio laptop instead of the onse that broke in mine after less than 50 cycles, of which not more than two dozen deep cycles.

    Similar experience with everything else that I owned that had a rechargeable battery (UPS, cell phone, etc).

    Batteries ususally are just not that good yet. I have big hopes for bidirectional fuel cells. Warranty can fix a lot of my worries though, if it explicitly includes the battery.

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