Selling Toyota Prius Unmute Currently Gliding with Electric Motor

TOKYO, KOMPAS.com - To improve the security and safety, Toyota will complement its flagship hybrid, the Prius with a system that could give voice to be heard by pedestrians. The voice appears only when the car is run by electric motors. Currently, when executed by the electric motor, the car does not make a sound. Planned, Toyota began selling these devices to be used in the Prius on 30 August.

Further explained, these additional devices designed to remind the trip legs to know there are vehicles coming akana or sliding. Especially on vehicles that do not make a sound. In this case is when the hybrid gasoline-electric motors work using electricity.

Appliances sold in all dealers and distributors of spare parts and original accessories (genuine) Toyota in all of Japan and special mounted on the Prius Gen-3. This tool will automatically make a sound when the Prius electric motor driven by electric motors only at speeds above 25 km / hr.

Target, the tool is to let you know and open to interfere, with the sound patterns of rising and falling according to vehicle speed or the car was sliding marks. Equipment - are also targeted for the blind - is designed based on Ministry standards Inftrastruktur, Transport and Tourism for hybrid vehicles that do not make a sound. Toyota also plans to create another version of the tool for petrol and electric hybrid cars, electric hybrid plug-in hybrid and fuel cell which immediately launched.

Authors: ZBJ
Editor: BJ Zulkifli