Toyota Motor will manufacture the Prius hybrid and its key parts in China in a bid to boost sales in the world's largest car market, a company spokeswoman said Sunday.
This will mark the first time the Japanese automaker has produced key components such as motors and batteries for the petrol-electric hybrid in a facility outside Japan.
Toyota manufactured the second model of the Prius in China, with key components exported from Japan, but stopped the operation in 2009.
Chana Auto CD101 Spyshot on 31st August, 2011.
2011 is the year in which Chinese mobile phone brands fight against the bad name - Copycat. From Meizu M9 to OPPO Find X903, Chinese people put more attention in a record level on their own cell phone brands. Chinese cell phone brands (Huawei, ZTE, Coolpad and Lenovo) are more and more popular in their domestic market.
Last month Mi Corp. (http://www.xiaomi.com/) release its first cell phone - Mi one which shocked the entire smartphone industry and market with its hardwares: 1.5GHz CPU, Adreno 220 GPU, 1 GB RAM, 4 GB ROM, 4 Inch Sharp screen, 800 M Camera and 1999 RMB Price.
Robots dance during the opening ceremony of the 2011 China Robot Competition in Lanzhou, capital of Northwest China's Gansu province, Aug 23, 2011.
FAW's new energy cars, namely Besturn plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) and Besturn EV, debut in Changchun, capital of northeast China's Jilin Province, Aug. 22, 2011. The two types of new energy vehicles were self-designed by FAW, China's leading carmaker, since 2009.
Major Chinese automaker First Automobile Works (FAW) on Monday launched the first batch of its independently-developed new energy vehicles.
The first 20 new-energy vehicles include the company's Besturn plug-in hybrids (PHEV) and pure electric vehicles (EV).
Xu Jianyi, FAW chairman, said FAW will stick to the strategy of developing both hybrid and electric-fueled vehicles in the future.
Read more: China's FAW rolls out first batch of new energy vehicles
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