Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Paice drags Hyundai, Kia into long-running hybrid patent fight with Toyota

Paice drags Hyundai, Kia into long-running hybrid patent fight with Toyota

With all the news coming out recently about the small claims lawsuit over the Honda Civic Hybrid, readers may have forgotten the name behind a long-running legal issue over Toyota's hybrid system: Paice. The latest development is that Paice and the Abell Foundation (an investor in Paice) have sued Hyundai and Kia over the gas-electric technology used in the Optima and Sonata hybrids (pictured), which shares some parts with Toyota's Hybrid Synergy Drive. Read up on the details of Alex Severinsky's story here.

Autoblog, Paice drags Hyundai, Kia into long-running hybrid patent fight with Toyota

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