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Toyota has announced a large-scale demonstration of plug-in hybrid vehicles in Strasbourg, France.

Toyota has announced a large-scale demonstration of plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHVs) in Strasbourg, France.

About 100 of these vehicles equipped with lithium-ion batteries will be leased to selected companies and partners in the Strasbourg area starting from the end of 2009, continuing for a period of three years.

For this demonstration, project partners EDF and its subsidiary Electricité de Strasbourg (ES) will set up several hundred vehicle charging points at drivers' homes, partners' facilities, in public car parks and on public roads.

EDF and Toyota have been working together for the last three years on PHV demonstrations. Toyota began road trials of the vehicles in France in autumn 2007 and the programme was expanded to the UK in September last year.

The road demonstrations are part of a global Toyota project that will also be deployed in Japan and the US from the end of 2009. Toyota's main objective is to further investigate the technology and performance of PHVs.

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