Toyota to Introduce Plug-in Hybrid This Year, Hydrogen Cars by 2015

Posted: Jan. 16, 2009 10:01:07 a.m.

At the 2009 Detroit Auto Show, the focus was largely on electric cars. The Cadillac Converj, the Chrysler 200C, an electric Ford Focus, a drop-top Fisker Karma -- electric cars were everywhere. The world's largest automaker was conspicuously absent. Toyota brought a single electric concept - a battery-powered version of its iQ city car that, the company said, it had no plans to produce anytime soon.

It turns out, however, that Toyota wasn't behind the other automakers. If the company ...