In this Oct. 21, 2007 file photo, a visitor looks at hybrid …
(AP) - In this Oct. 21, 2007 file photo, a visitor looks at hybrid car ‘Prius’ displayed at Toyota Motor Corp’s showroom Toyota Mega Web in Tokyo. Toyota is building a 20 billion yen (US$192 million; euro122 million) plant in Japan to produce batteries for gas-electric hybrid vehicles, as it seeks to keep its lead in an intensifying race for green cars set off by soaring fuel prices, a Toyota spokesman said Friday, May 23, 2008. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye, FILE)