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Toyota (together with Toyota Industries) announced a new hybrid battery that will have these characteristics: lower cost, more compact, greater longevity and higher performance.

According to Toyota’s Australian VP of sales and marketing Sean Hanley:

“Our parent company decided to develop a new battery for hybrid vehicles due to the need for more compact batteries that can offer greater power and longevity at lower cost than the current options.”

From this article from Australia: “ It was developed jointly with Toyota Industries Corporation, which will produce the new battery at its Kyowa plant in Japan’s Aichi prefecture.”

This seems to say it has already been developed and now is about to be manufactured as the Toyota plant where it will be manufactured is being announced.

My guess is the target is 40 to 50 miles range as that would potentially cover 90% of the daily miles for a majority of drivers as most people drive 50 miles or less most days.

This appears to be a...

I was checking fueleconomy.gov and the 2019 Highlander Hybrid and older Highlanders get 29 city / 27 highway / 28 average. The 2020 Highlander Hybrid gets 35 city / 35 highway / 35 average. What did they do to get such a big jump in economy?

I might end up having to replace the cells in my HV battery in a gen 2 Prius.

I'm curious to know if there are any good, reputable websites that sell cells at an affordable price.

I've looked on eBay and they seem to range from 19.99-30 bucks each.

If you had to replace the cells in your HV battery, where would you go?