An updated version of the
all-electric Toyota RAV4 EV, a vehicle that was available to lease in America
from 1997 to 2003, is to be developed with help from Tesla. Toyota expects to
mass-produce the new car by 2012.
Toyota, a company that has
gained a reputation for favouring hybrid technology such as that used in its
Prius over pure electric vehicles, recently acquired a £35m ($50m) stake in
California electric-sports car maker Tesla.
The move by Toyota to
invest in mass-produced electric cars is in contrast to the position adopted by
its rival, Honda.
Head of research and
development at Honda, Tomohiko Kawanabe, earlier this year told Bloomberg
news:“We are definitely conducting research on electric cars, but I can’t say I
can wholeheartedly recommend them… It’s questionable whether consumers will accept
the annoyances of limited driving range and having to spend time charging
them.”
Jos, the Plateau state capital, boiled yet again recently leaving in the wake of it hundreds of lives lost and properties worth billions of Naira destroyed. A good number of those who survived crisis have been economically displaced and may have to start life all over again.
A number of people would have kept their dead parents in the mortuary for months, thereby delaying the natural process of decomposition, all for fear of kidnap in the southeast today.
Deregulation, the magic wand, we've been told is the only solution to our petroleum needs. Nigerians, the federal government insists, must embrace deregulation if they need petroleum products or face the fate of returning to the medieval era of using firewood and stones or at best acquire plenty of donkeys from northern Nigeria, if they must move around.
Hey Ladies, In the last publication we
talked about being independent as a lady and highlighted so many points, but we
want to continue exploring the independent state of mind placing emphasis on
when the quest for independence could turn into arrogance in homes or amidst
friends.
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