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Toyota Dealers Prefer Selling Hybrids over EVs

Benji Jerew — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 18:38:22 +0000

Electric vehicles [EV] have a lot going for them, most notably minimal fuel costs and minimal carbon-dioxide emissions. Unfortunately, they don’t seem to hitting the mainstream for apprehensions regarding range, recharge time, and up-front expenses. The last place we would expect to find apprehension is the dealership, but unlike EV-only dealers, it seems that conventional […]

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Toyota Not Believing in Their EV Program Anymore

Benji Jerew — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 07:42:18 +0000

Who killed the electric car this time? Apparently Toyota doesn’t see the markets as currently supporting an extensive electric vehicle [EV] fleet. The 2012 Toyota RAV4 EV was only recently released to the buying public, and announcements had just been made regarding a subcompact EV based off the Scion iQ [Scion iQ EV / Toyota […]

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RAV4 EV Revived by Toyota and Tesla Motors Venture

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:12:47 +0000

Because Tesla and Toyota made an agreement this spring to build an electric car, everybody thought that the joint venture between them will result in a small car being built, like we've been used to - the Prius, the Roadster, the Yaris etc.

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Toyota Planning to Release a Full Electric Car

Florin — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:09:12 +0000

I was wondering what else is Toyota doing for a complete environmentally friendly car. And there was the FT-EV concept.

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