{"id":867,"date":"2008-01-14T06:32:33","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T14:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/14\/phev-prius-in-2010\/"},"modified":"2008-01-14T06:32:33","modified_gmt":"2008-01-14T14:32:33","slug":"phev-prius-in-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/14\/phev-prius-in-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"PHEV Prius in 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin: 10px;\"><center>PHEV Prius outside Buck&#8217;s in Woodside<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/pix\/PHEV-prius.jpg\" alt=\"PHEV Prius\" \/><br \/><small>Photo Credit: Business 2.0<\/small><\/center><\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/media.cleantech.com\/2289\/toyota-plug-in-hybrids-coming-in-2010\" target=\"_blank\" >Cleantech.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nTokyo-based Toyota Motor (NYSE: TM) said it plans to start selling plug-in hybrid vehicles by 2010.<\/p>\n<p>That would put the new cars in direct competition with the Chevy Volt from Detroit&#8217;s General Motors (NYSE: GM), another plug-in hybrid expected to be released that year.<\/p>\n<p>Toyota said the first sales of its lithium-ion battery-equipped plug-in hybrid vehicles would be to fleet customers in the U.S. and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.cleantech.com\/2289\/toyota-plug-in-hybrids-coming-in-2010\" target=\"_blank\" >Read more&#8230;<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the first of many of these sorts of announcements we should expect, the PHEV is a sensible next step in the evolution toward all electric transportation. As can be seen from the troubles with Tesla, it&#8217;s very difficult to simply jump from combustion technology to all electric (though we&#8217;re still wondering why an electric vehicle needs a transmission per se&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHEV Prius outside Buck&#8217;s in WoodsidePhoto Credit: Business 2.0 Via Cleantech.com: Tokyo-based Toyota Motor (NYSE: TM) said it plans to start selling plug-in hybrid vehicles by 2010. That would put the new cars in direct competition with the Chevy Volt from Detroit&#8217;s General Motors (NYSE: GM), another plug-in hybrid expected to be released that year. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}