Toyota will focus on hybrid vehicles in order to push for Global sales of 10 million by 2015 as part of a new “global vision”.
The company dropped to a first ever loss in 2008 and was afterwards plagued with technical issues which caused over seven million cars to be recalled worldwide.
Toyota wants ten more hybrid vehicles by 2015.
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This is BMW’s sensational new electric car which offers supercar performance and nearly 90mpg. Tom Cruise will drive the electric/diesel hybrid i8 in new Mission Impossible film The Ghost Protocol.
And it will go on sale in 2013 as part of a radical brand of BMW electric/hybrid cars. The brand, launched this week in Munich, will be called BMWi - with the first models an electric city car, the BMW i3, and the high-performance i8 coupé.
Read more: The Sun
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The London Congestion Charge will change from January 4th 2011 after a review of the current format. More vehicles will be exempt from the charge as cars with CO2 emissions lower than 100g/km will be allowed access without incurring the fee.
Full Story: The Telegraph
Porsche will make widespread use of hybrid technology in its struggle to meet increasingly stringent CO2 and general emissions regulations - and it isn’t afraid to downsize, either.
“In the future, we will have hybrid drive in every model line,” development chief Wolfgang Duerheimer told industry publication Automotive News.
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