Toyota Motor exhibits plug-in HV concept model in the Motor Show of Germany.

Is Toyota Motor 15 in September?It was announced that concept model "Plug-in Prius hybrid concept" of first plug-in hybrid car (PHV) in this company put on the market at the end of this year would be exhibited to the Frankfurt international Motor Show held in Frankfurt in Germany on the 27th for the tenth. 30 percent or more of the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) exhausted when another running extending by enabling the charge in a domestic power supply up to 20 about ten times usual gas-and-electric-powered car (HV) "Prius" to be selling the distance where it was able to run only by an electric motor now kilos was cut. Therefore, the fuel cost performance improves greatly compared with a gasoline car and usual HV.

The concept model changed the battery from the Ni-MH battery to a more mass lithium-ion battery based on Prius, and enabled an external charge. Toyota sells new model PHV in about 200 and the United States in Japan after the end of the year after it makes further refinements to the concept model and it sells it to about 150 and the corporation in Europe such as about 150 and French British Germany.

Tokai University participates in the solar car race of the Australian continental running through 3,000km two holding in October, 2009 by a new solar

"Tokai Challenger" that Tokai University newly developed for the solar car race held in Australia in October was completed and it was announced Shonan inside the campus (Kanagawa Prefecture Hiratsuka City) on the seventh. The race participates in the solar car section (about 3,000 kilos) by "Global green challenge" that competes with the car with a little environmental load such as sunlight and electricity.

The solar car that Tokai University developed is the eighth. It is singles by flat about five meters in the body and the total length. Maximum speed goes out by 150 kilos if a supplementary battery is used together at a speed of 95 kilos per hour when it is only sunlight. In the output 2.5 horsepower, it is top-level in the entered team of this race.

Kenjiro Shinozuka (60) who accomplished the first overall victory in the Japanese in the Dakar rally in 1997 gets on as a driver in Tokai University OB.

The practice run was done on this day, and Mr./Ms. Shinozuka who had gripped the steering wheel said, "It wants to work hard the real thing aiming at the victory stand".