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Challenging Toyota’s Hybrid Hegemony
By MB-BigB | April 30, 2006
By Lindsay Brooke The New York Times
SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 2006
“…Yet the domination of Toyota’s Hybrid Synergy Drive is coming under assault from some of the auto industry’s top engineers. For more than a year, in nondescript buildings in Troy, Michigan, north of Detroit, a German-American consortium of BMW, DaimlerChrysler and General Motors has been working quietly to develop a distinctly different type of hybrid powertrain.”
Interesting article on BMW, DaimlerChrysler, and GM’s development of the “two-mode hybrid”, which is supposed to be much more efficient at highway driving
Full article here
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