pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/hybrids/" rel="tag"Hybrid/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/toyota/" rel="tag"Toyota/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/uk/" rel="tag"UK/a/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/gallery/yaris-jolt-and-carmine/low/#7"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/07/non_hybrid-yaris_630.jpg" alt="" //abr /div align="center"emstrongsmall2009 Toyota Yaris - Click above for a high-res image gallery/small/strong/em/divbr /A Toyota insider is countering yesterday's report that a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/07/28/report-toyota-to-build-yaris-based-hybrid-in-france-go-on-sale/"the automaker is planning a Yaris-based hybrid/a to be built in France. Such a vehicle would be unnecessary, according to the unnamed source.br /br /Today's a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/06/07/in-the-autoblog-garage-2008-toyota-yaris-liftback/"Toyota Yaris/a is already a fuel miser. The European variant is currently quipped with a 1.33-liter dual VVT-i engine with start-stop technology allowing the compact runabout to earn an impressive 55.4 mpg (European) combined fuel economy (in the States, we get a 1.5-liter Yaris that is rated at 29/36 in EPA testing). While dropping a hybrid powerplant into a larger vehicle pays back significantly, the gains realized by building a hybrid Yaris would be negligible.br /br /Down the road, it may be a different story as battery technology (one limiting factor) is improving quickly. The advent of lithium ion batteries will boost the case for compact and subcompact hybrid vehicles as the bantam-weight cars benefit from the lighter and more compact power sources. br /br /br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/yaris-jolt-and-carmine/low/"2009 Toyota Yaris/a/strong/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/yaris-jolt-and-carmine/low/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/08/00_09yaris_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/yaris-jolt-and-carmine/low/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/08/01_09yaris_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/yaris-jolt-and-carmine/low/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/08/02_09yaris_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/yaris-jolt-and-carmine/low/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/08/03_09yaris_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/yaris-jolt-and-carmine/low/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/08/04_09yaris_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/divbr /[Source: a href="http://www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsArticle.ASpx?AR=241935"Autocar/a]br /p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/07/29/follow-up-toyota-may-not-produce-hybrid-yaris-after-all/"Follow-up: Toyota may not produce hybrid Yaris after all/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:58:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/07/29/follow-up-toyota-may-not-produce-hybrid-yaris-after-all/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/19113172/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/07/29/follow-up-toyota-may-not-produce-hybrid-yaris-after-all/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/apa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bOxCGZ26YVznCcAA6HE9dbIuZ88/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bOxCGZ26YVznCcAA6HE9dbIuZ88/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bOxCGZ26YVznCcAA6HE9dbIuZ88/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bOxCGZ26YVznCcAA6HE9dbIuZ88/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=DGrswV5kyOU:_T21O4cNPF0:wF9xT3WuBAs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=DGrswV5kyOU:_T21O4cNPF0:wF9xT3WuBAs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=DGrswV5kyOU:_T21O4cNPF0:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=DGrswV5kyOU:_T21O4cNPF0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/DGrswV5kyOU" height="1" width="1"/

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