Re: Honda Announces Pricing of 2006 Civic Hybrid
Toyota announced a while back that it was working on reducing the costs of hybridship by ramping up in-house production of the electric motors and power electronics (they kicked out production of an SUV to make room for motor production) and other routes, such as the recent buy-out of their battery supplier, the joint venture with Panasonic, now most of the components are in-house so they should drop in price. If that translates into increased profit margins or reduced prices has yet to be seen...
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