Toyota Motor Corp Company, which regularly argues with the Volkswagen Group for the title of world's largest automaker, in the direction of rampant electrification of vehicles, was literally dragged by force, as in the newly created division for the development of electric cars with a decent reserve employs only four people, and the whole initiative was developed only because of the intentions of the US and European powers to compel auto manufacturers to selling a certain proportion of electric vehicles for
the foreseeable future. Toyota is afraid to lose large markets, and therefore forced to create electric cars, although own conviction, said hybrids and cars on hydrogen fuel cells more promising means of transportation. However, this view is mainly due to large investments in the creation of such vehicles, not a clear sense of market conditions.
As noted Reuters, at the opening of a rechargeable version of Toyota Prius PHV second generation for the Japanese market, the "chairman of the board of Takeshi Uchiyamada expressed the hope that this model will disperse a circulation of 1 million. Copies in less than ten years. Hybrid Toyota Prius first generation took ten years to cross this threshold. Produced since 2012 rechargeable version of the first generation Prius was sold in the amount of 75 000 copies, and the blame for this can
be a modest cruising range on pure electric - only 26.4 km away. The second generation of the car, this figure reaches 68.2 on Japanese method of counting, and about 40 km on American. Toyota expects to sell annually worldwide 60,000 copies Prius PHV fresh generation.
Since 1997, when was presented a hybrid model Prius the first generation, Toyota has sold more than 10 million. Hybrids of different models, their range has 40 pieces. In the US, a rechargeable Prius Prime sold last year in Europe, it will be presented in March, and the Japanese debut yesterday. By the way, about half of the machines Prius PHV model will be sold in the Japanese market it. This generation of hybrids is expanding the use of lithium-ion batteries, which are still
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