Ford Motor Co, announced plans in September to boost hybrid-electric vehicle (HEV) production to 250,000 units annually by 2010, and it acknowledged that cultivating a U.S. supply infrastructure would be one of the hurdles. That is because today, more than 90% of hybrid vehicles are built in Japan and, as a result, the preponderance of component makers are Japanese. Moreover, both HEV volume leaders Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co. Ltd. produce many key hybrid systems and components in-house, For the current Prius, launched in September 2003, Toyota makes the car's 1.5L Atkinson-cycle gasoline engine at its Kamigo plant; the motor-generator and power-split device at its Honsha facility; and key electronic components, such as the power module, inverter and brake regeneration and power steering controllers, at its Hirose plant.
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机译：福特汽车公司（Ford Motor Co）于9月宣布了计划，到2010年将混合动力汽车（HEV）的年产量提高到25万辆，并承认培养美国的供应基础设施将是一大障碍。这是因为今天，超过90％的混合动力汽车是在日本制造的，因此，零部件制造商主要是日本人。此外，混合动力汽车销量领先者丰田汽车公司和本田汽车公司内部都生产许多关键的混合动力系统和部件。对于2003年9月推出的现行普锐斯，丰田公司生产的1.5L阿特金森循环汽油发动机是其神乡工厂;本沙工厂的电动发电机和动力分配装置;以及Hirose工厂的关键电子部件，例如功率模块，逆变器和制动器再生以及动力转向控制器。
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