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Toyota announced this weekend will produce vehicles with hybrid systems made in China starting 2015. As quoted by AFP, hybrid vehicles will be produced after completion of Toyota's research center in China.
Central research and development of "Environmentally Sound Technologies" in Changshu, not far from Shanghai was built at a cost of U.S. $ 689 million. Most installations are operational since April and is still in progress until 2013 is a test circuit as well as the administration and the laboratory.
The vehicle is Toyota's joint venture with Guangzhou Automobile Group and FAW Group Corporation. Manufacture and sale will be conducted in China. Typically, critical components of hybrid vehicles imported directly from Japan.
China since 2009 become the largest vehicle market as well as shifting the position of the United States. China's ambitions to become the next country in order to use clean-energy vehicles. The country has invested over 14 billion dollars to their ambitions into a reality from 2020.
