With Toyota’s latest buy from the General Motors fire sale being a 5.9 percent stake in Isuzu, speculation on where Toyota will use Isuzu diesel engines has largely revolved around trucks and SUVs. The two companies just announced a joint venture to develop diesels.
“If that sounds like Toyota will integrate a diesel engine into its Synergy hybrid drivetrain, you are right,” according to Jim Press, president of Toyota Motor North America.
ToMoCo will likely employ the oil-burners as part of a multifuel hybrid strategy, including diesel, biodiesel and ethanol.
This is sweet music for us who can’t decide if we should invest in a homebased biofuel plant or go high-tech and buy a gasoline hybrid. Now we get the best from boh worlds.
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