Toyota want to sell 100% hybrids...

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

Why do I never hear about battery issues?



from NY Times:

Toyota Says It Plans Eventually to Offer an All-Hybrid Fleet

By BLOOMBERG NEWS
Published: September 14, 2005

FRANKFURT, Sept. 13 (Bloomberg News) - The Toyota Motor
Corporation said this week that all its vehicles would eventually
be run by hybrid gasoline-electric motors, as record fuel prices
curb demand for conventional automobiles.

"In the future, the cars you see from Toyota will be 100 percent
hybrid," Kazuo Okamoto, executive vice president, told reporters
in Frankfurt Monday, without giving a specific timetable.

Toyota, Japan's biggest carmaker and second to General Motors
worldwide, is aiming to make as many as 400,000 gasoline-electric
vehicles in 2006, including Prius cars, Camry sedans, Highlander
sport utility vehicles and Coaster buses, Katsuaki Watanabe,
president of Toyota, said at an investor conference in New York
Monday. That would be 60 percent more than 2005's objective, he
added.

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