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Toyota: It won't be easy to scale down lithium, plug-in costs 
Hybrid Cars | by noreply@blogger.com (Dahcredyns) | Thu, Sep 24
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Is Toyota a lithium and plug-in vehicle laggard? Does Toyota have the wrong lithium technology? Is Toyota too vested to NiMH? Or, is Toyota simply being honest about the realities of lithium and the plug-in revolution?
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