DEARBORN, Michigan - Ford and Toyota said Monday that they will work together on a gas electric hybrid engine for pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles.
The company signed a contract to share development costs, say that they make more affordable technology customers and want to bring to the market faster.
Both companies now sell hybrid cars, but trucks need to another system with tow and haul heavy loads.
"Our cooperation with Ford a move in the hybrid technology in sport utility vehicles and trucks, make widely available," said Takeshi Uchiyamada, Toyota executive Vice President for research and development, in a statement Monday.
"These models are essential for US customers." And with our hybrid technology helps to save energy and to reduce greenhouse gas output here in the United States. "This was our thinking in the examination of cooperation," he added.
Hybrid trucks would help automakers, the stricter the Government fuel economy and pollution to meet standards in the United States and other countries. In the United States, the fleet of new cars and trucks will have average 56.5 miles per gallon (24 kilometers per liter) by the year 2025, although truck will have lower mileage targets.
It takes a year for the company to find out who will do research, said Ford product development Chief Derrick Kuzak. He said it would be at least two or three years after that before a system be developed can. The companies are not sure, but what get for gas mileage.
The system would some of the Ford F-series trucks that would best selling vehicle in the United States, and it makes the tundra, Toyota full size pickups. It would be used in rear-wheel-drive sport utility vehicles, the company said.
Ford and Toyota also said that they will work to the development of standards for the way way electronic devices such as Smartphones, link to cars and trucks.
Ford said that it is the first time, with whom she has performed Toyota for each project.
"There is no plans for the future of this point,", said Kuzak. He said the company would save money on the development of the system, but he did not know how much. It is important, he said, to share costs for the system customers affordable.
Discussions between the two companies began in April.
It is not the first hybrid system for pickups and SUVs. General Motors co., Chrysler and BMW AG together on a system, which introduced a few years ago. The system some selling GM pickups and SUVs but not well.
Associated press contributed to this report.
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