Toyota Prius in India Updates

Toyota to add solar panels to some Prius hybrids


Tokyo, 07 July 2008: Toyota Motor Corp plans to install solar panels on some Prius hybrids in its next remodelling, responding to growing demand for "green" cars amid....

Toyota would boost next generation Prius manufacturingJapanese automaker Toyota would boost the manufacturing capacity of their next generation Prius which should be out in the market next year.The company aims to boost the capacity of their plants to manufacture 480,000 units annually.This was revealed in a news article in the Nikkan Kogyo.Currently, most of the [...]

Toyota would boost next generation Prius manufacturing

Toyota Prius coming to India for sure Toyota has confirmed that they are going to launch their Prius model in the Indian market in the coming years. Toyota Prius is the most well known hybrid car in the world and it is also one of the best selling in this segment. Toyota Kirloskar Motor Ltd vice-chairman Vikram [...]

Toyota Prius coming to India for sure

Hah... it will flop here.

And I have always been suspicious of how eco-friendly it is. Today I found this:

Hummer vs. Prius
Some environmentalists call the nickel mine in Sudburry, Ontario, one of the world’s worst environmental messes, saying it is the largest single point source for acid raid-causing chemicals in North America.

It is also the place where Toyota gets the nickel for the batteries that run its hybrid vehicles.

The nickel is smelted, removed from the rock and then it is shipped by container ship to Wales for refining. Its trip takes it to China where it is turned into nickel foam, then on to Japan to Toyota’s battery plant.

The trip, start to finish, is more than 10,000 miles, mostly on heavy polluting container ships.

And of course, no one is going to buy the Honda Civic Hybrid at Rs. 21.5 lakhs (about 9 lakhs more than the highest variant of the petrol Civic!!!!) The reason they got that car to India apparently is so that they can glorify themselves and advertise to death how "eco-friendly" they are.

well they need it just for the sake of having it in competition to honda civic hybrid... it's more of an ego thing for the two japanese companies. 🙂and prius is expected to be a big hit amongst the celebrities in india who would boast of it on page 3...

Toyota Prius launch in India faces infrastructure problemsToyota Kirloskar Motor has said that they want to bring their hybrid car Prius in the Indian market but the infrastructure problems are delaying the possibility.A company representative said: â??Itâ??s easy for Toyota to import a limited number of Prius as CBUs into the country and sell it. [...]

Toyota Prius launch in India faces infrastructure problems