Toyota Motor Corporation has announced that the company will launch three 2012 plug-in electric cars, three models of a plug-in hybrids and two plug-in electric cars.

Toyota Motor Corporation in Los Angeles at its annual dealer meeting that the above information, the three electric models will be based on Toyota's existing models to build, respectively, for the 2012 models of the RAV4 electric vehicles, Toyota Thain IQ electric cars and plug-in Toyota Prius.

It is understood that Toyota IQ electric vehicles in the case of a single charge, the mileage can reach about 105 km, which model was unveiled in 2011 Geneva Motor Show.

Toyota Prius plug-in hybrid Prius with the price of the ordinary version of the model is roughly equal, and it is equipped with higher capacity lithium battery so that the car mileage and fuel efficiency has a greater advantage . Plug-in hybrid Prius fuel efficiency of 60 kilometers per gallon of gasoline, and the current version of the Prius fuel efficiency of 38 kilometers per gallon.

Plug-in hybrids not only with a higher capacity than a conventional hybrid the battery, and can be an ordinary household outlet to charge the battery.