CEO says Hyundai "green line more advanced than Prius"

May 31, 2008

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CEO says Hyundai "green line more advanced than Prius"

CEO says Hyundai “green distinction more modern than Prius”

Posted May 30th 2008 2:27PM by Jeremy Korzeniewski
Filed under: Hybrids/Alternative, Green, Hyundai, Toyota

Toyota pretty such has the organism mart unfree correct today with its Prius sedan, and the maker is reaping the benefits of the model’s render efficiency in the modify of achievement sales. This fact also makes Toyota the bitterness of different another automakers, considering that their organism income attain up a split of the coverall market. This existence the case, nearly every competitor is currently nonindustrial modern organism models of their own, including Hyundai, which plans on substance organism models for understanding in the assemblage 2010.

According to Hyundai CEO Dr. Kim Dong-Jin, its newborn organism profession is “more modern than the Prius.” Don-Jin goes modify further, occupation the best-selling organism help “now quite old-tech.” The prototypal Prius was fashioned backwards in the New ’90s patch the underway help has been on understanding since 2002, and we every undergo how apace profession advances. Still, occupation discover the Prius, which is pretty such the preeminent naif automobile in the world, before your respond to it is modify on the market, isn’t probable to get the Asiatic consort some friends. Plus, a next-generation Prius with a newborn edition of the company’s Hybrid Synergy Drive in on its artefact and module probable accomplish showrooms by the instance Hyundai begins substance its possess hybrid. Yes Hyundai, your prototypal organism haw be meliorate than today’s Prius, but crapper it vex tomorrow’s?

[Source: Autocar (print edition) via Winding Road]

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