Toyota Prius

Prius remains top seller in Japan Toyota Motor Corp.'s Prius gas-electric hybrid car was Japan's best-selling vehicle in October with sales of 26,918 units, staying in the top slot for the fifth straight month, according to industry data...

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...a falling demand in the key North American market. Demand has also been boosted in Japan for its Prius hybrid, which is tax free because of a government stimulus measure. Toyota now expects to make a smaller loss for the year of...

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11-12) 21:51 PST TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- Toyota is planning a larger version of its popular Prius hybrid, which will be powered by a new kind of battery, a Japanese newspaper reported Friday. The new Prius, either a station wagon or SUV,...

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...still up in the air -- though Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper says that it will retail for about $22,000. But whenever Toyota decides to release the new, larger Prius, we can expect a rapid increase in the number of hybrid-owning soccer moms.

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...to Offset Production Pollution Toyota has gone to some extreme lengths to offset the carbon dioxide emissions produced by its Tsutsumi plant in Toyota City, Japan, where it builds the Prius hybrid. The plant conserves electricity by...

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...comes from the Yomiuri newspaper in Japan (via Green Car Advisor) and says that Toyota is considering building a Prius sport wagon or a Prius SUV about 12 months from now, maybe using lithium-ion batteries (despite Toyota's public...

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Toyota Prius Wins Car of the Year Award in Japan The third-generation Toyota Prius hybrid just squeaked past the Honda Insight to be voted Japan's Car of the Year this week at the Tokyo Motor Show. The Prius, which won the award for the...

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..."hybrid." All this with only the one, hatchback model. So after years of debate, it looks like the Japanese automaker is ready to expand the Prius brand with a new sport wagon. According to Japan's Yomiuri newspaper, Toyota is looking...

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...yen ($3.9bn; GBP2.36bn) from 750bn yen. It comes as the maker of the Prius hybrid revealed quarterly net profits of 21.8bn yen for the three months to October, against 139.8bn yen in 2008. In August, it revealed plans to close a...

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