Originally Posted by ag4ever

There are a number of hurdles to be overcome to get a plug-in.

Battery placement and type. You do want to go farther than 2 miles on battery alone right? Current battery is too small for such a drive. Also enough NiHD battery would eat almost all the trunk, but LiIon or such would reduce the size considerable.

Transmission lubrication. If you do go further than 2 miles, the transmission needs an external source of pumping fluid to keep the gears lubricated.

SOC issues. To keep the battery level low when you are returning home, you have to fool the stock computers into not recharging the batteries by use of the ICE.

Hymotion does have kits for the Prius, but they are very expensive. So far all their efforts have been focused on the Prius since that is where the big market will be first. I imagine the Camry should not be that much different, but there is enough difference to make it less enticing to go after that market before they are fully sucessfull with the prius and HiHy.

I predict there will be a plug-in Camry one day, just not tomorrow.