Toyota sticks with nickel after 3-year lithium Prius test

• Source: Gasgoo.com
• [15:21 September 14 2009]
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The company also plans to sell a small electric car for urban commuters, powered solely by lithium packs, by 2012.

Nissan Motor Co. will begin selling battery-electric Leaf compact cars next year, which the Yokohama-based company says will travel 100 miles on a fully charged lithium pack. Mitsubishi Motors Corp. is selling the i-MiEV, a 4.6 million yen ($51,000) electric minicar that also goes as far as 100 miles using only lithium-ion batteries, in Japan.

US sales operations for Toyota are based in Torrance, California.

(Bloomberg)