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Various reports have been coming out regarding Toyota and Tesla’s Electric Vehicle (EV) collaboration. At Tesla’s newly acquired NUMMI plant in California, a joint Toyota-Tesla car is said to be in production. However, both companies have not given their comments regarding the matter.

Despite the two companies’ silence, Tesla spokeswoman Khobi Brooklyn verified that the company has already developed one test-ready electric vehicle which will be based on a Toyota platform. The EV is supposedly going to be presented to the public in 2011. Based on Bloomberg Business Week’s report, Tesla will be delivering test versions of the RAV4 and Lexus RX crossovers. Among these two, RAV4 has proven its effectiveness as an EV. Its EV experience is proof that the RAV4 mania is here to stay.

Indeed, Toyota has already proven that an EV innovation can work through their famous RAV4. The RAV4 EV became available to the public way back in 1997. Most of these cars were left on utility fleets, while 300 of these were leased to the public until its last year of production in 2003. Remaining RAV4 cars were never squashed and squeezed.
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