Once more, with feeling, from Geneva: all Toyotas will get hybrid option
Filed under: Hybrid, Toyota, Geneva Motor Show
The Asia-only Toyota Crown model (pictured) is the latest Toyota to get a hybrid powertrain option but it certainly won't be the last. Toyota president Katsuaki Watanabe told Automotive News (subs req'd) in Geneva today that sometime in the 2020s, every Toyota will be available with a hybrid engine. If you think you might have read this before somewhere, you're right. Back in January, Watanabe said the same thing and even that wasn't the first time. Toyota's "all-hybrid" message is repeated at pretty much every major auto show. We're not against a line-up like this, we just hope these hybrid powertrains - when they arrive - will actually save fuel, instead of adding questionable value to vehicles like the Lexus LS 600h. [Source: Luca Ciferri / Automotive News Europe]
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3-04-2008 @ 8:50PM
eliot said...
Did they back off their all hybrid pledge. I believe that the first time they mentioned this they said all models would be available with hybrid drives by 2015.
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