Prius plant coming to Mississippi
Made in the USA?The Toyota Prius will join the Camry hybrid as the only two Toyota hybrid cars built in the US. By late 2010 Toyota will begin building the Prius at a new plant being built in Blue Springs, Miss. Interestingly, the Prius was not the vehicle intended for this already planned auto plant, however, high demand for the Prius amidst ever-increasing gasoline prices forced Toyota's hand. (AP via Yahoo)
Labels: Hybrid Vehicles, toyota prius
posted by Dahcredyns at
7:50 AM
4 Comments:
Did you forget about the Nissan Altima Hybrid? It is built in Smyrna TN.
Well, I said the "only two Toyota hybrid cars built in the US".
If you're calling the Altima hybrid a Toyota hybrid because it uses Toyota technology, then you'd have to add in Ford's hybrids as well, but I was focusing specifically on Toyota branded hybrids.
Not only will the Prius be built here in the USA, that plant in Mississippi will be building the newly-redesigned 3rd-generation Prius. (It's scheduled to go online in 2010).
Considering that the plant was originally planned to make SUVs, One has to hand it to Toyota for killing two birds with one stone.
I'll probably wait a year or two for them to iron out the bugs with the 3rd-gen Prius, and by then I would have owned my '07 for 5 years. Perfect timing for me to u pgrade to a LiON-powered plug-in Prius maybe with a solar panel. :-)
armchair-
why do you think there will be bugs in the 3rd gen Prius? If anything the 2nd gen. Prius wiped out the bugs of the 1st gen Prius. Now that at least the first production run or two of the third gen Prius will continue to use lithium, I don't anticipate anything but further Prius reliability.
I think Toyota is taking lithium very slowly so that once they do switch over, there will be no bugs.
You're right, however, that it's pretty impressive, for such a large automaker, how nimble and reactionary Toyota can be. I guess its all in the kaizen.
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