Toyota has taken a step further in the efficiency of its ultimate hybrid, the Toyota Prius, to provide it with a new lithium ion battery rechargeable in the home network of 220 volts, which assures an electric-only range of 23 kilometers and a speed of 100 km / h. For longer distances, moves combined with the way gas / electric, as in the conventional Prius.

Toyota Prius Plug-inToyota Prius is the answer to future challenges, cars will be electric powered. Their ecological and propulsion qualities begin to chart a new technological development, but for now, are in the range provided by batteries and recharge zero public infrastructure, two problems today, making it difficult to monetize their good intentions.

Until that time, Toyota has over 10 years leading hybrid technology with the global standard Prius car as an alternative, which allows a realistic way to reconcile the advantages of conventional cars and electric cars. A new impetus has been proposed by the new Toyota Prius Plug-in, he wants to be a little electric car and a little less conventional car.

Toyota has taken this step forward under a study more than 80 percent of commuting by car are less than 25 miles and take place in congested cities. The objective of Toyota Prius Plug-in was clear: to make an electric car for the short distance, and hybrid in the medium and long displacement.

To be an urban electric car from Monday to Friday, the plug-in receives a new Li-ion battery that is recharged quickly, in 1 hour and 20 minutes in the home network. Since that time, the Toyota Prius Plug-in is developed by the city with the magic of all electric car, powered by a 80 hp engine, smooth, quiet and powerful, to a speed of 100 km / h (45 Prius conventional) and about 23 miles of range (2 Prius). If you live in the suburbs, the Toyota Prius Plug-in can operate in hybrid mode first, combining petrol engine with 98 hp electric and book the brunt of the battery to reach the city, to get higher returns in this environment to its electrical nature.

Its electric range allows you to consume on average only 2.2 liters of fuel per 100 km per battery charge and certify a record number of exhaust emissions of only 49 g / km. Ecology takes every corner, with graphics that encourage us to lead effectively, to use logic and air conditioning with soft intentionally slow advance, to recover energy kinematics, which in his case serves to increase the autonomy purely electric.

600 units of prototype Toyota Prius Plug-in have been rolling in the hands of potential customers, to put it up and bring their technical characteristics to the actual use of the car. After 200.00 miles traveled around the world, the Prius Plug-in is ready to hit dealerships in 2012.

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