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Toyota gets 20,000 orders for the 2010 Prius, expects 40,000 before launch

Posted: Apr 15, 2009

Filed under: 2010 Releases, Hybrids, Green News, Toyota

According to local newspapers in Japan, Toyota has received more than 20,000 orders for the 2010 Toyota Prius, which goes on sale in Japan in mid-May. Chunichi and Nikkei both cited an unnamed Toyota official saying that the company expects that number to reach 40,000 before the cars launch – a pace that could allow [...]

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Fukui: Honda Insight will not enter price-war with Prius, new hybrid system for larger cars coming

Posted: Apr 04, 2009

Filed under: Honda, Hybrids, Green News, Industry News, Toyota

Just two days ago, it was reported that Toyota will lower the price of the 2010 Prius in Japan to make the hybrid more competitive with the 2010 Honda Insight. Today, Honda’s CEO Takeo Fukui said that he will not lower the price on Insight anymore.
“I don’t think that would be meaningful to do so,” [...]

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2010 Toyota Prius to be priced competitively with the 2010 Honda Insight

Posted: Apr 02, 2009

Filed under: 2010 Releases, Honda, Hybrids, Green News, Toyota

Toyota has notified its Japanese dealers that it will price the new 2010 Toyota price at 2.05 million yen ($20,750 USD) which is right on par with the new 2010 Honda Insight. The move is Toyota’s latest response in the hybrid war between the Prius and Honda Insight.
Still, that might not be enough to entice treehuggers [...]

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Toyota to sell 2010 Prius alongside current model in Japan

Posted: Mar 26, 2009

Filed under: Hybrids, Green News, Toyota

Toyota’s president Katsuaki Watanabe said today that the company will keep selling the current Prius model alongside the 2010 model year that arrive in Japan in May.
“They will have different engine sizes — 1.5 liters and 1.8 liters — and we figure there will be demand for the two to co-exist,” Katsuaki told reporters at [...]

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Toyota planning a cheap Yaris gasoline-electric hybrid

Posted: Mar 25, 2009

Filed under: Hybrids, Green News, Toyota

Toyota has been pretty worried about the 2010 Honda Insight hybrid that is priced lower than the current Toyota Prius and will definitely be priced lower than the 2010 Prius. With competition heating up, Toyota has decided it will produce a new small hybrid vehicle that will be priced lower than the Insight.
According to Akihiko [...]

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EPA officially rates 2010 Toyota Prius at a combined 50 mpg

Posted: Mar 02, 2009

Filed under: 2010 Releases, Hybrids, Green News, Industry News, Toyota

Toyota today dropped a very detailed press release for the 2010 Toyota Prius that told us everything about the “eco-icon” other than the pricing details. Toyota says that the EPA has officially rated the 2010 Prius at a combined fuel-economy of 50 mpg.
The Japanese automaker said that its third-generation Prius offers better mileage, more performance, [...]

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Toyota to sell current Prius and 2010 Prius side-by-side in Japan

Posted: Jan 22, 2009

Filed under: Hybrids, Green News, Industry News, Toyota

Japan’s Nikkei claims that Toyota will continue to sell the current Prius in Japan when the new third-generation Prius launches later this summer. The business paper said that Toyota plans to keep selling the outgoing Prius with a lower price tag in order to stay competitive with the new 2010 Honda Insight.
According to Nikkei, Toyota [...]

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Toyota launches certified used hybrid program

Posted: Jan 21, 2009

Filed under: Hybrids, Green News, Industry News, Toyota

How do you let everyone know that you’re the hybrid king? By kicking off 2009 with the third-generation version of the most popular hybrid to ever drive planet Earth and by launching a certified used hybrid program. Toyota announced today that it will offer a new Toyota Certified Used Hybrid (TCUH) program that will provide [...]

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Poll: What would you buy? 2010 Toyota Prius or 2010 Honda Insight

Posted: Jan 13, 2009

Filed under: 2010 Releases, Honda, Hybrids, Green News, Polls, Toyota

The two largest Japanese automakers, Toyota and Honda, came to Detroit this past weekend with two new hybrid vehicles. The 2010 Toyota Prius and the 2010 Honda Insight hybrid vehicles will hit dealerships in April going head-to-head with each other. If you’re currently in the market for a hybrid – we want to know which one you [...]

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Toyota to launch 10 new hybrid models by 2010, 500 plug-in Priuses to be leased late 2009

Posted: Jan 12, 2009

Filed under: Auto Shows, Hybrids, Green News, Industry News, Toyota

During the unveiling of the 2010 Prius at the 2009 Detroit Auto Show, Toyota said that although BEVs and small-vehicles like the iQ will be a key component to the company’s sustainable mobility strategy, the conventional gas-electric hybrid will be Toyota’s long-term core powertrain technology focus. Toyota plans on selling more than one-million gas-electric hybrids [...]