...Toyota will integrate a diesel engine into its Synergy hybrid drivetrain, you are right, according to Jim Press, president of Toyota Motor North America.The modularity of the hybrid system makes it applicable to a range of power plants and fuel sources, he added. "It is the same hybrid system that works with all of those."
http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/News/articleId=118788
The story goes on to say,
Detroit's Big Three demonstrated this with their concept cars developed under the Partnership for the Next Generation of Vehicles program under the Clinton administration. All three companies produced diesel-electric hybrids in pursuit of an 80 mpg family sedan. A Prius with a diesel engine would closely resemble those concept vehicles, both in appearance and fuel economy.
So ten years ago the domestic manufacturers had concept cars of what would be selling like crazy today.. ?
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