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Toyota Outlines Technology Strategy for Alternative Powertrains: Right Vehicle, Right Place, Right Time

Posted on July 01, 2008

Toyota says it is pursuing all of these energy and powertrain pathways. The brick walls in the diagram represent barriers to be overcome. Click to enlarge.In a presentation at the recent Toyota Environmental Forum held in June in Japan, Masatami Takimoto, Executive Vice President, outlined the company's technology strategy for meeting the needs of a sustainable mobility society . (Earlier post.)Hybrid and plug-in hybrid technology is core to Toyota's plans, but Takimoto described a range of efforts across conventional powertrain development, alternative fuels, biofuels, electricity, a...

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