Toyota, with almost five million cars sold in the first half of 2012 the largest manufacturer in the world, in the electrification of the model range in the medium term, especially on the plug-in hybrids. That told me the vice president of Toyota Europe, Alain Uyttenhoven. Besides the new Prius plug-in will also soon be featured on the new Auris hybrid be a plug-in version, probably from 2014. Additional plug-in models in the coming years are likely.
"A pure electric range of 25 to 30 kilometers is what a normal daily driver needs," said the manager in charge of Toyota's product planning. The plug-in shown in January-NS-4 study could therefore come from 2015. "A pure electric car with 150 km range is not the right solution," said Uyttenhoven. Nevertheless, the Japanese take their small car iQ end of the year, battery-electric on the market. A small series will go in Germany. The iQ EV but will probably be relatively expensive, so the Toyota man. This would amount ed out into the price of a Smart: about 20,000 Euro.
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| The Toyota iQ compact car comes as a pure electric version on the market - albeit at a relatively high price levels. |
The selling in the USA in small batches RAV4 EV (with drivetrain by Tesla) for Toyota in America is especially important because the policy requires there by manufacturers zero-emission models. From 2015/16 Toyota will offer first electric cars with fuel cells. For this was recently extended its cooperation with BMW. She has shown in Tokyo last winter study of FCV-R so some opportunities to be built. However, such a car would be "not very favorable," said Uyttenhoven. Less than 100,000 euros, price will be but probably are.
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