Toyota admits lithium ion battery technology is still too hazardous to use in its production cars despite GM announcing earlier this year that it expects to have a plug-in hybrid vehicle with lithium batteries by the end of the decade. The Japanese giant doesn’t want to rush out products with lithium batteries and then see them fail once they’ve left the showroom floor.
The biggest factor holding it back is safety fears, revealed Toyota’s executive vice president for R&D Kazuo Okamoto. Let's hope GM can pull through.
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