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Toyota, the Japanese carmaker, seems determined to keep a promise that each model in its lineup will have a hybrid version. With the many vehicles ready to hit us next year, it's hard to tell which of them will have a bigger impact. For Toyota, high-profile models will come in the form of updated versions of already existing variants, including revised versions of existing technology.

Toyota is also planning a 'hatchback offensive' next year?

Toyota only recently joined up with electric car maker Tesla, in order to share alternative battery  technology. Some of the outcomes of this include the RAV4 electric, and now the Tesla laptop battery idea. At first, Tesla Motors building powerplants by connecting thousands of laptop batteries seems nuts, but in the end it is absolutely brilliant.

Toyota, along with several other high end car makers, is turning to laptop batteries as a quick, cheap way?

Toyota is revving up more electric vehicle news, with the release of the RAV4 and Plug-in Prius. There's also a new, small Toyota iQ headed to the US in 2012.

Details are yet to be revealed, since the concept is still in project form. But more information is likely to emerge in the following months. Toyota will probably show a preview at the 2011 North American International Auto Show in Detroit.

Toyota, the company that introduced Prius to the world, is planning on 11 new and revamped hybrid models by 2013. Toyota currently sells eight hybrids in the US, split between the Toyota and Lexus nameplates. By September, it's commitment to releasing six new models before 2012.

As Reuters reported this week: "One of the new releases will be a small hybrid with fuel economy the company says exceeds 40 km/L-equating to a whopping 94 mpg in Japanese testing.