Re: Toyota want to sell 100% hybrids...

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Because when people figure out what it will cost to replace all the batterys at once they will get a little panicky!
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From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
Reply-To: mail-From-mprice-westco.net@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date:  Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:34:23 -0700 (PDT)

>Why do I never hear about battery issues?
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>Toyota Says It Plans Eventually to Offer an All-Hybrid Fleet
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>By BLOOMBERG NEWS
>Published: September 14, 2005
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>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.
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>"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.
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>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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