"Already the diesel [price] premium
is quite high, then you'd have to pay a
hybrid premium, so we're not seeing that
there's a market," Toyota Motor
Europe chief executive Tadashi Arashima
told
BBC
News. The response came when Mr.
Arashima was asked about Peugeot's plans
to make diesel hybrid vehicles.
Some fans of
hybrid
cars have hoped for a line of clean
diesel hybrids, which would offer even
better fuel efficiency than current
gasoline hybrids. Perhaps when Peugeot
and other European automakers begin to
produce their own diesel hybrid
vehicles, Toyota will change its plans.