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Toyota brings a small electric city car concept vehicle at the Detroit Auto Show, where in addition to the new Prius hybrid.

Nobody says a lot about the car also confirmed that it is completely electric, and less than the Prius. "It is a concept which shows that on the site to confirm our interest in electric vehicles," says spokeswoman Jana Hartline, according to the Detroit Free Press.

The Japanese automaker, which expects that after the first operating loss in 70 years, speed up R & D batteries and can EFD already in 2010 - at which point is also planning to introduce the Prius is the first plug-in hybrids as part of its campaign to have the oil.

Toyota is not a big thing in the world premiere of the EV-concept, which stretches along the pedestrian zone and Camrys corollas on the first floor, and do not have a press conference prior to the public. This is unusual, also known concept car with a major automobile manufacturer fanfare.

However, there is little doubt Toyota full electrification of the automobile. The company has set itself the ambitious "low carbon" agenda for cranking million annually hybrids in the first half of next decade and to accelerate the development of small electric vehicles for mass production. "We are of the view that the peak production of oil in the near future. We have the power (and) for alternative energy sources," company president Katsuaki Watanabe told reporters as he announced on the agenda in October.