Toyota's Bid for a Better Battery

Hybrid anything that sells over 100K units. Hybrid Yaris could approach 100mpg EPA, thereby netting around 75mpg real world.

IS300h please.

But yeah, hybrids w/o the hybrid premium.

— huu76 (View Profile)

Posted on 3/18/2007 5:17:32 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -1   

i wonder how the next gen will be, esp with the li-ion batteries. should be nice.

— sewingmachine (View Profile)

Posted on 3/18/2007 7:00:51 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -1   

Finally Toyota has the answer to MB/BMW's duracell batteries.

— flozel1 (View Profile)

Posted on 3/18/2007 7:01:38 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -3   

Cars powered by cell phone batteries. Go figure!

— Will_ (View Profile)

Posted on 3/18/2007 7:06:39 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -2   

Toyota developed batteries? Or Sanyo?

— Matthew1 (View Profile)

Posted on 3/18/2007 8:55:31 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

Once gas prices go over $5.00/gallon, I'll have to buy a diesel or hybrid.

Out of today's lineup (worldwide) of hybrids and diesels, I'd pick a GS450h as my hybrid or an A8L 4.2TDI as my diesel.

— S4cabriofoxone (View Profile)

Posted on 3/18/2007 9:45:09 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -8   

why dont they just use duracell... duh the worlds most trusted battery....

— AMGC55 (View Profile)

Posted on 3/19/2007 3:40:49 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

MBKing the day ( 5D/gallon ) is not so far away, and is being brought closer still by the Bush administration ( no Kyoto, no restraint on petrol dependance...) but find petrol and fight for it!
fear for the day when there will no longer be any petrol left, which at best is some 50 years away

— nvme (View Profile)

Posted on 3/19/2007 4:36:59 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0   

i think, at the risk of saying what many are thinking, that toyota, and the japanese are to be commanded for their efforts in this domain boyish warfare notwithstanding

— nvme (View Profile)

Posted on 3/19/2007 4:39:08 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0   

nvme,
You should probably know your facts before you start with the blatant (yet always fashionable) anti-US bashing.

Europe and Japan need middle Eastern oil. North America has Canada, and to a lesser extent Venezuela (funny how they don't have any problems selling their low grade oil to America).

If the US didn't protect "your" oil, you would've been subservient to the Russians already (you forget Ukraine and its problem with natural gas?)

80% of oil production in the M.E. is under US control. Europe should consider itself lucky that is isn't China there instead, but gratitude isn't really something I expect Europe to ever export much of.

When gas is $5 a gallon, diesel will be $7 and hybrids will be paying themselves off within a year.

— huu76 (View Profile)

Posted on 3/19/2007 6:56:06 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0