Toyota, Nomura, Miyako Hiroshi, in cooperation with Toyota, announced that car sharing will be conducted in spring 2012 for the apartment.
Implementing new service has been increasing the car-sharing around the residents of urban areas do not have a car, has been determined effective from the attention as a countermeasure to global warming and the control of oil consumption is.
The target condominiums, planned in Tokyo "Komaba Proud" and "Wada Suginami Proud" and the two buildings, planned in Aichi "Hoshigaoka Forest Villas" in a building of one to two per building, total of six plug-in (PHV) and electric vehicles to deploy.
Vehicles to be provided for, see the plug-in hybrid plug-in Prius uses. Can be recharged from a domestic power supply, fully charged can travel 23.4km of other EV can be used in combination with the engine running out of battery. You can use the infrastructure without worrying about the situation and the residual amount of battery charge.
While electric vehicles are now based on [iQ] develop a model capable of 105km of travel. Trying to market introduction in 2012.
TOYOTA operated vehicle provided through local stores. Car-sharing and fee schedule is packed and the future.