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

["Robert Sliko" <robert.sliko@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Toyota claims that individual batteries can be replaced,  not likely to need 
an entire replacement at once.......

I think everyone on this list and all car people everywhere should encourage 
everyone they know to buy a hybrid..........that will cause the price of gas 
to drop and increase supply so we can drive our AMCs even more!!!!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Jennings" <tomj@xxxxxxx>
To: "AMC List" <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 1:34 PM
Subject: Toyota want to sell 100% hybrids...


> 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.
>
> ...