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What Drives Us Podcast - #163 Pre-Death Systems - What Drives Us

This week we tackle the really big themes… VW offer owners a band-aid for arterial bleeding http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1100852_vw-gives-owners-of-2009-2015-2-0-liter-diesel-cars-debit-cards-roadside-assistance Audi says yes to H2 http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/audi/a7/93409/audi-on-the-brink-of-showing-a-fuel-cell-vehicle Chasing the will o’wisp that is Faraday Future http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1100860_more-faraday-info-chinese-billionaire-backer-ex-tesla-staff-for-electric-car-startup Luxury Toyotas recalled for “auto braking” http://www.thecarconnection.com/news/1100862_2013-2015-toyota-avalon-avalon-hybrid-lexus-es300h-es350-recalled-to-fix-auto-braking-problem

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Ashlem

All hydrogen fuel cell cars are compliance cars, for now

All Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Cars Are Compliance Cars, For Now

When the first Honda Insight and Toyota Prius hybrids launched in 1999 and 2000, expectations for their sales were low.

And hybrids indeed logged annual sales in the low thousands until the second-generation Prius came along for 2004.

But the sales numbers for the earliest hybrids look stratospheric compared to the projections for sales of hydrogen fuel-cell cars in their first few years.

Toyota has said it plans to make 700 of its Mirai fuel-cell model for the 2016 model year--for all markets--and boost that number to 2,000 next year and 3,000 the year after.

The car's chief engineer, Yoshikazu Tanaka, told industry trade journal Automotive News in April that3,000 is the...
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Ashlem

Toyota sees even split between Prius batteries

Toyota Sees Even Split Between Prius Batteries | Asia Pacific content from WardsAuto

Toyota reveals more details of its new Prius, the automaker’s first hybrid to be powered by a lithium-ion battery as well as the nickel-metal-hydride battery nearly exclusive to the car’s three previous generations.

Chief engineer Kouji Toyoshima tells WardsAuto on the sidelines of the Tokyo auto show that production will be divided evenly between Li-ion and NiMH batteries. Sales of cars with the two battery types will be further split 50-50 in North America and Japan, while Toyota will offer only NiMH-equipped Priuses in Europe. China and Southeast Asia still are being decided.
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