As far as car manufacturing is concerned, a lot of them are mapping out plans today on how to provide the new wave of transportation vehicles and gas relying ones are surely not it. Hybrid cars which feast on electricity are the new demand today and for Japan manufacturer Toyota, these hybrid cars will be complete for distribution to the US and Europe.

For now, the groundwork is being laid down. The new technology needed will certainly excite most Toyota patrons, especially the ones who have used their cars for some years now.

Toyota is introducing a plug-in hybrid with next-generation lithium-ion batteries in Japan, the U.S. and Europe by 2010, under a widespread strategy to be green outlined Wednesday.

The ecological gas-electric vehicles, which can be recharged from a home electrical outlet, will target leasing customers, Toyota Motor Corp. said. Such plug-in hybrids can run longer as an electric vehicle than regular hybrids, and are cleaner.

Lithium-ion batteries, now common in laptops, produce more power and are smaller than nickel-metal hydride batteries used in hybrids now.

(Source) Yahoo Green