Toyota to sell ethanol fueled hybrids in Brazil

Toyota Motor Corp. said Tuesday it has unveiled in Brazil a prototype of the world's first hybrid vehicle that runs on ethanol to further cut carbon dioxide emissions, aiming to launch the model in the country in one to two years.(Supplied Photo)The prototype is a combination of a flexible-fuel vehicle that is powered by both gasoline and ethanol and Toyota's hybrid car.The model will be able to curb CO2 emissions even more than the current FFVs if sugarcane-derived ethanol is used as the only fuel, with CO2 absorbed when the plant was growing being subtracted from the total.FFVs make up so…READ FULL ARTICLE