Toyota Parts Blog » Future hybrid http://www.toyotapartsblog.com Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:00:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Yaris Hybrid? http://www.toyotapartsblog.com/being-green/334/ http://www.toyotapartsblog.com/being-green/334/#comments Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:12:22 +0000 admin http://www.toyotapartsblog.com/?p=334 Toyota announced that it currently has no plans to make a Yaris hybrid, stating that the hybrid system would be difficult to place in smaller cars and that since

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]]> Toyota announced that it currently has no plans to make a Yaris hybrid, stating that the hybrid system would be difficult to place in smaller cars and that since Yaris is already fuel-efficient, any gain would be indifferent.

This statement has initial reports that the Yaris hybrid would begin production in France and in Japan and would go on sale within two years. Toyota clarifies that it plans to have a hybrid option available in every model by 2020, but the efficiency of small engines means a full Prius-style hybrid system is unlikely to feature in small cars like the Yaris anytime soon. While Toyota is on course to sell one million hybrids worldwide within the next few years, Yaris, along with other small cars, wouldn’t get its hybrid version any time soon. It will probably be when when battery efficiency increases. Stop-start technology is already available in the Yaris. Toyota confirmed earlier this month that the Auris hybrid will be built in the UK, with production starting in 2010.

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