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Researching - USA - TOYOTA Lets Drivers Keep Leasing Electrics
LOS ANGELES,CAL,USA -The Stamford Advocate/Associated Press/By TIM MOLLOY -Sept 1, 2005: -- Without fanfare, Toyota has agreed to let customers continue driving about 1,000 discontinued electric vehicles that were a precursor to the popular Prius gas-electric hybrid... The company's decision is a victory for electric car drivers, who say automakers never gave the cars a chance to succeed in the mass market. Supporters say electric cars reduce the country's reliance on polluting gasoline, whose price has surged in the wake of Hurricane Katrina... But after persuading judges to whittle away the regulations, automakers that had leased the vehicles to consumers began reclaiming and destroying them, saying it wasn't feasible to continue servicing vehicles that never caught on with consumers... The need to plug in the vehicles every 100 miles or so warded off many buyers, but dedicated drivers pleaded to keep their electric cars, saying automakers had made no real effort to promote the technology...
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