{"id":535527,"date":"2010-04-19T20:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T00:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/green.yahoo.com\/blog\/ecogeek\/1352\/prius-minivan-may-debut-in-2011.html"},"modified":"2010-04-19T20:12:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T00:12:00","slug":"prius-minivan-may-debut-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/535527","title":{"rendered":"Prius minivan may debut in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"prius-minvan\" height=\"183\" src=\"http:\/\/l.yimg.com\/a\/feeds\/us\/grn\/green_ecogeek\/prius-minvan.jpg\" width=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Imagine the <a href=\"http:\/\/ecogeek.org\/automobiles\/2697\">Toyota Prius<\/a>.\u00a0 Now imagine it stretched a little longer and taller, perhaps a &#8220;Baby on Board&#8221; sticker attached to the back, and that may just be what&#8217;s in store for a new version of the hybrid vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese news source Nikkei is reporting that Toyota will be releasing a Prius minivan sometime next year. The minivan would be the first expansion of the Prius brand by the automaker.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond being the first hybrid minivan on the market, the vehicle may also be the first Toyota to use an in-house developed lithium-ion battery pack.\u00a0 Details are scarce, but it would likely be a three-row, sliding-door vehicle, capable of seating up to seven people.<\/p>\n<p>The automaker reportedly expects to price the minivan in line with its fully gas-fueled competition.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE63F4TA20100416\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/l.yimg.com\/a\/feeds\/us\/grn\/green_ecogeek\/xvyg8_1nooq\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine the Toyota Prius.\u00a0 Now imagine it stretched a little longer and taller, perhaps a &#8220;Baby on Board&#8221; sticker attached to the back, and that may just be what&#8217;s in store for a new version of the hybrid vehicle. Japanese news source Nikkei is reporting that Toyota will be releasing a Prius minivan sometime next [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3950,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3950"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}