Toyota To Display Prius Plug-In Concept At 2009 Frankfurt Show
Published: 10-Sep-2009
Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) is planning to display the prius plug-in hybrid concept at the 2009 Frankfurt International Motor Show (IAA) (Frankfurt Show) to be held from September 15 to 27, 2009. The prius plug-in hybrid concept is a concept vehicle that combines the benefits of CO2 emissions-reducing electrical-outlet battery charging and gasoline-electric hybrid vehicles. This concept is based on the third-generation gasoline-electric prius and is equipped with a lithium-ion battery.
A plug-in hybrid vehicle basically operates as an electric vehicle on short trips and as a conventional hybrid vehicle on longer ones. Its electric vehicle attributes mean it has a longer total cruising distance and better overall fuel efficiency than a conventional hybrid; this means lower fossil fuel consumption and, thus, reduced CO2 emissions and atmospheric pollution. But because it is a hybrid vehicle, it can run regardless of battery charge and is not completely dependent on a battery-charging infrastructure.
Toyota is developing a plug-in hybrid vehicle that can be charged using external power sources (such as household electricity), based on its hybrid technology, which it has positioned as a core technology for environmentally considerate vehicles. The concept model Toyota will display at the Frankfurt Show has a targeted electric-vehicle cruising range of about 20 kilometers on a full charge, and its targeted CO2 emissions level is below 60 grams per kilometer.
Toyota believes plug-in hybrid vehicles represent an environmentally considerate solution that can be widely applied to respond to the diversification of energy sources. As such, Toyota intends to introduce about 500 plug-in hybrid vehicles globally, about: 200 in Japan, 150 in the US, 150 in Europe (including France, the UK and Germany); primarily to fleet customers, to encourage market acceptance and promote understanding.
Toyota will continue its efforts to achieve sustainable mobility by using its hybrid technologies to develop plug-in hybrid vehicles, electric vehicles and fuel-cell hybrid vehicles, which are expected to help reduce fossil fuel consumption, lower CO2 emissions and respond to the diversification of energy sources.
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