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From this recent article from investor relations company S&P Global -

"Meanwhile, Japanese carmaker Toyota is planning a late foray into the battery-electric vehicle market, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence. Despite having pioneered emissions-reducing technology in its first-generation Prius more than 20 years ago in 1997, the company doesn’t plan to produce any battery-electric vehicles within the next five years. Instead, Toyota is planning to produce 1 million battery-electric and hydrogen fuel cell car sales by 2035.

"Toyota is betting on seeing a quantum leap in its EV development and EV success from 2025 on, when its solid-state battery will arrive, and be ready for a more aggressive approach by then," Julie Boote, an analyst at Pelham Smithers, said in a research note, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence.

"One risk would be consumers in developed markets don't think of them as a [battery-electric vehicle] BEV firm but Toyota has plenty of marketing...

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Key Points:

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Electric vehicle sales slump as supply challenges leave dealerships with shortages
The COVID-19 pandemic has pummelled Canada's automobile industry but it's the lack of supply that's helping to short-circuit electric vehicle adoption across the country.

Electric vehicle sales slump as supply challenges leave dealerships with shortages | CTV News | Autos

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They will also be offered to other manufacturers. One site compared this to being the EV version of the small block V8.
GM Debuts New Ultium Drive Electric Motors | GM Authority

I see on the Toyota site that the 2021 Prius is now available.

It’s always very frustrating that they don’t specify what changes and improvements have been included with new models.

Sometimes details are available via a press release. I, however, could not find one.

Does anyone know what’s new for Prius in 2021?

And I suppose this is likely the last model year of Gen 4?

2021 Toyota Prius Hybrid Electric Liftback | Find Your Element

Daimler Trucks unveiled a liquid Hydrogen fuel cell semi with a 600 mile range is expected to start testing in 2023.

https://www.daimler-truck.com/innovation-sustainability/efficient-emission-free/mercedes-benz-genh2-fuel-cell-truck.html

Daimler Shows Off Long-Range Hydrogen Semi, New Battery Truck Amid Nikola Uproar

... depending on how you drive:

Plug-in hybrids are a 'wolf in sheep's clothing' - BBC News

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Will reduce wiring up to 90%.
GM says industry-first wireless battery management will help it scale Ultium EV tech

From "New Graphene-Based SuperBattery To Charge In 15 Seconds":

"The SuperBattery will utilize Skeleton’s patented Curved Graphene carbon material to achieve a charging time of just 15 seconds (240C) and charging cycles counted in hundreds of thousands.

As in the case of other ultracapacitors, also this one is not energy-dense enough to replace the lithium-ion batteries, although it beats lead-acid and NiMH, reaching some 60 Wh/kg."

• GM to engineer, validate, homologate and build the Nikola Badger for both the battery electric vehicle and fuel cell electric vehicle variants as part of the in-kind services.
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"The announcement builds on the agreement signed between the companies in April to jointly develop two all-new electric vehicles for Honda based on GM’s highly flexible global EV platform powered by Ultium batteries. The GM-Honda relationship, which began more than two decades ago, includes recent collaboration between the companies on fuel cells, batteries and the Cruise Origin shared autonomous vehicle."
GM and Honda propose establishing alliance extending well beyond EV and fuel-cell tech

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Demo model only has about a four minute range, but those four minutes are awesome:

Sky Drive Inc. conducted the public demonstration on August 25, the company said in a news release, at the Toyota Test Field, one of the largest in Japan and home to the car company's development base. It was the first public demonstration for a flying car in Japanese history.

SkyDrive Conducts First Public Manned Flight in Japan – SD-03 manned model makes its world debut- | SkyDrive Inc. -Flying car-

Video of it operating in ground effect:

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I have an 06 Prius hybrid I fixed the hybrid battery and car runs good for a few miles and then charging meter shows nothing in the car powered down you have to pull over and restart it and it’ll goLess than a mile in the red light and the beep comes back on. After the car sits for a while and back to normal when you start it.

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