Toyota-GM hybrid partnership rumors stir again
Posted on 29. Jun, 2009 by admin in GM, Toyota
Just ten days ago, General Motors denied a story that it was planning to license Toyota’s hybrid Synergy Drive system, but today a new report has broken claiming Toyota could offer GM the Prius hybrid, to be re-branded as a GM product.
Aside from being completely off the wall, the report doesn’t really sit well with the direction GM has taken on its own two-mode hybrid products and development of the Volt.
On the other hand, with today’s announcement that GM will be withdrawing from the New United Motor Manufacturing Incorporated (NUMMI) joint venture with Toyota in California, perhaps a re-branded Prius makes sense.
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