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• Dear Jim Letters: The Electric-Car Future

  BNET - 2009-06-22

  The two Jims have been friends for 20 years, but that doesn’t mean they agree on everything: Jim Motavalli thinks that environmental factors loom large and the EV revolution is right around the corner; Jim Henry thinks the inherent conservatism of American consumers will keep it a niche market for...

  Tags: Battery, Toyota Motor Corp., Fossil Fuel, Toyota Prius, EV, Engineering, BNET Auto

• Unlike Toyota, Ford is Bullish on Plug-In Hybrids

  BNET - 2009-06-17

  Ford, the only one of the Big Three not to declare bankruptcy, is nonetheless still in a fairly big hole. For all of 2008, Ford’s sales were down 21 percent. There’s a slight hint of a turnaround in the reports from May: although sales were still way down (24.2 percent)...

  Tags: Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle, Car, Battery, Plug-in, Ford Motor Co., Toyota Motor Corp., Engineering, Jim Motavalli

• A 170-mpg Prius Conversion? Don't Bet on It, Says Toyota

  BNET - 2009-06-11

  There are a range of plug-in hybrid conversion kits on the market, all making extravagant claims of 100 miles per gallon equivalent, seamless operation and zero impact on the warranty of the Toyota Prius donor car. Well, forget 100 mpg. Plug-In Conversions Corporation PICC, founded in 2007, claims 170+ mpg,...

  Tags: Battery, Plug-in, Toyota Motor Corp., Toyota Prius, PICC, Engineering, Jim Motavalli

• Toyota's Problem With Plug-in Hybrids

  BNET - 2009-06-02

  NEW YORK CITYâ€"The “Meeting of the Minds,” an international city planning conference held in the most urban of settings (the 60th floor of a JP Morgan Chase office tower) was perhaps an unlikely setting for a tutorial on the inherent problems of plug-in hybrid PHEV cars, but Toyota was the...

  Tags: Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle, Battery, Plug-in, Toyota Motor Corp., Engineering, Jim Motavalli

• Needed: A Really Cheap Hybrid (Listening, Honda?)

  BNET - 2009-05-10

  The path to profitability with hybrid and battery electric cars may not be at the top of the marketâ€"as Fisker and Tesla are assumingâ€"but at the bottom. Take a look at the price wars developing between Honda and Toyota over, respectively, the Insight and Prius. And that’s only the beginning....

  Tags: Honda Motor Co., Hybrid, Toyota Motor Corp., Toyota Prius, Insight, Pricing, Engineering, Marketing Research, Marketing, Jim Motavalli

• For the 2010 Lexus 450h, Price Counts

  BNET - 2009-02-23

  Toyota’s Lexus division is launching an all-new 2010 version of its luxury SUV, the V-6-powered RX350, in the teeth of a deep recession. But the suddenly vulnerable company says it is confident it can sell more than the 65,000 that moved out of showrooms last year. It's a new model, they said...

  Tags: Emission, Hybrid, Toyota Motor Corp., 450h, Sales Strategy, Engineering, Sales Force Management, Sales, Jim Motavalli

• Detroit Auto Show: Toyota Cautious on Battery Cars

  BNET - 2009-01-13

  Bill Reinert, Toyota's grizzled national alternative-fuel vehicles manager, isn't afraid to describe himself both as "an old hippie" and as an ardent environmentalist. And yet he's inherently cautious when asked at the North American International Auto Show about the company's volume plans for a production battery car similar to the...

  Tags: Car, Battery, Toyota Motor Corp., Engineering, Jim Motavalli

• Toyota says to produce new hybrid battery next year

  - 2008-06-11

  TOKYO AFP — Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday that it plans to start producing lithium-ion batteries next year as it races against rivals to develop new high-mileage hybrid vehicles. Toyota, seeking to keep its lead in the growing hybrid market amid rising petrol prices, said its joint venture with...

  Tags: battery, Engineering, hybrid, lithium-ion, Toyota Motor Corp.

• Exide Technologies Supplying Batteries for Next-Generation Toyota Corolla and Matrix Vehicles

  - 2008-03-18

  ALPHARETTA, Ga. -- Exide Technologies (NASDAQ: XIDE) (www.exide.com), a global leader in stored electrical-energy solutions, announces a new supply agreement with Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America. The Company has begun shipping lead-acid starting batteries for the next generation of Toyota Corolla and Matrix passenger vehicles assembled at Toyota...

  Tags: battery, Company, Engineering, Exide Technologies, Toyota Motor Corp.

• Prius plug-in displays battery of good points

  - 2008-01-18

  DETROIT -- Seventy-one miles per gallon. That's what the trip computer read after a 4-mile loop through downtown and a short freeway blast in a prototype of the Toyota Prius plug-in hybrid. Skip the freeway run, go lighter on the throttle downtown...

  Tags: battery, car, Engineering, hybrid, motor, plug-in, Toyota Motor Corp.