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The design of the Toyota Hybrid System / Hybrid Synergy Drive has now had five generations since the original 1997 Japanese-market Toyota Prius. The power train has the same basic features, but there have been a number of significant refinements.
In 2009, Toyota tested lithium batteries as a potential replacement for the nickel metal hydride batteries used in its Prius model gasoline-electric hybrid. The company said that it would continue to use NiMH batteries in the Prius, but would introduce an all-electric vehicle based on lithium technology.
The Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid (often abbreviated as the Prius PHV and known as the Prius Prime in North America, South Korea, and New Zealand from 2016 to 2024) is a plug-in hybrid liftback manufactured by Toyota. The first-generation model was produced from 2012 to 2016.
The Prius Plug-in Hybrid, meanwhile, comes in SE, XSE, and XSE Premium trims and sticks with the same 13.6-kWh battery that returns up to 44 miles of electric driving range on the base SE trim level.
Toyota Prius plug-in hybrid prototype exhibited at the Automotive Engineering Exposition 2008, Yokohama City, Japan From 2006 to 2009, Toyota tested 126 Prius models in the U.S., Japan and Europe that had the NiMH battery replaced with a lithium-ion battery pack.
Toyota’s global hybrid sales now total almost 3 million units for the year thus far, a 19.8% year-on-year increase. This story was originally featured on Fortune.com Show comments