Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2010

Tesla Motors and Toyota Motor Corporation have signed an agreement to initiate the development of an electric version of the RAV4 (Recreational Active Vehicle with 4-wheel drive). With an aim to market the EV in the United States in 2012, prototypes will be made combining the Toyota RAV4 model with a Tesla electric powertrain.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Alabama, Inc. TMMAL), an engine-production subsidiary of Japan-based Toyota Motor. Corporation (TMC), held a line-off ceremony to mark the beginning of. Toyota subsidiary Bodine. four-cylinder engine production. TMMAL-produced 2.5-liter liter and 2.7-liter Aluminum, Inc. trucks and SUVs.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) plans to make vehicle liner material and other interior surfaces from a new bio-PET-based “Ecological Plastic” Bio-PET is polyethylene terephthalate; it consists of 70% terephthalic acid and 30% monoethylene glycol, by weight.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2011

Annual Toyota hybrid sales. Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announced global cumulative sales of its hybrid vehicles have topped the 3-million mark, with more than 3.03 Click to enlarge. million units sold worldwide as of 28 February 2011 since sales began in 1997.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2012

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announced that global cumulative sales of its hybrid vehicles—passenger car and commercial—topped the 4-million unit mark as of 30 April. Cumulative worldwide sales of TMC hybrids. Click to enlarge. The company reached the 3-million mark with its hybrids in February 2011.

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Prius Sale Hybrid Toyota 252

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

The US House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has issued a subpoena for “all documents relating to Toyota motor vehicle safety and Toyota’s handling of alleged motor vehicle defects and related litigation” in the possession of Dimitrios Biller, who served as the National Managing Counsel for Toyota’s American operation from 2003-2007.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2013

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announced that as of the end of June, worldwide cumulative sales of the Prius gasoline-electric hybrid vehicle (generations I, II and III) passed the 3-million mark. The second generation followed in 2003, and the third generation in 2009. ended Aug 2003. TMC launched the Prius in 1997.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

DENSO introduced electric compressors for hybrid electric vehicles in 2003. In 2005, DENSO introduced an electric compressor, jointly developed with Toyota Industries Corporation, that incorporated an inverter to drive the built-in motor.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 29, 2023

The car business being a small, inbred industry would result in me bumping into Perry& several more times, once while he was selling Mercedes-Benz vehicles in Texas in 2003. They may only own a Chrysler franchise but can talk at length about what& is going on at BMW and Toyota. As you might have guessed by now, he kept his job.

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Electric Auto Association

JANUARY 5, 2023

An early advocate for green energy, he drove the car to Sacramento in 2003, stopping in Davis, California to charge overnight before testifying before the California Air Resources Board (CARB). After two years, I sold it to a fellow chapter member and bought a Toyota RAV 4 EV which I’m still driving today.” so I’m in the movie.”

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 22, 2007

Thanks in large part to Mayor "Red Ken" Livingstone, who enacted London's much criticized congestion charge policy in 2003. Corporate and public-sector fleets will get to lease 100 test cars for a pilot period of four years. From where I sit (in the driver's seat of a NiMH powered Toyota RAV4 EV) this seems eminently practical.

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London G-Wiz i-MiEV Recharge 100

Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Academics awash in government and corporate grants analyse and research biofuels and hydrogen. That which they don't kill (EVs in 2003) they hope to delay (FCVs in 2008). A ZEV is a ZEV is a ZEV, they point out, and even Toyota admits we won't see FCVs in the showroom until 2030 at the earliest. Proven, ready to market.

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Plug-in Plug Parts Cars 100

Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 12, 2024

The first Honda hydrogen vehicle–the FCX EV Plus 1997-99 Insight Hatchback Hybrid 1999-2006 Civic Hybrid 2003-* (offered intermittently in various generations of Civics starting with the 7 th generation in 2003; note: An all-new Civic Hybrid will be released in 2025.) But those models don’t have a plug.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 30, 2009

Since the charging zone began operating in 2003 Hybrid cars have been exempt from the charge (currently £8.00 The disparity was highlighted to Boris Johnson by Stuart Kerr, Regional President for Europe from Volvo Car Corporation when he collected the What Car? per day) and can freely enter and exit the city centre zone.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

The easiest conversions are for 2004-2008 Prius (not 2001-2003 Prius) and the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner Hybrid. Both Toyota and Ford are now producing a few prototype conversions of their own Priuses and Escapes for research purposes.) Hymotion www.hymotion.com Concord, Ontario, Canada retrofits the Toyota Prius.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Mazda Motor Corporation will begin taking pre-orders for the new Mazda Axela sports compact (known outside of Japan as Mazda3) on 10 October 10, 2013 at its dealers throughout Japan. Since the launch of the first generation model in 2003, the Axela has sold more than 3.7 Axela Hybrid. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.) mpg US , 3.2

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Saab GM-owned company exploring PHEVs Joint Venture with Volvo and others to research PHEVs Toyota 500 PHEV 2010-model Priuses with lithium batteries to be leased for fleet tests in 2009 (150 in U.S.) When Lutz first proposed creating an electric car in 2003, the idea "bombed" inside GM, he says. "I Never discount Toyota.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

OCTOBER 25, 2008

The biggest obstacle for those who would prefer an alternative has been lack of purchasable plug-in electric vehicles since 2003 when auto manufacturers ceased production of plug-in EVs like the GM EV1, Honda EV Plus, and Toyota RAV4-EV. Rolls-Royce Motor Cars NA, LLC began distributing vehicles in 2003.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Below is a chronology of hybrid Toyota Priuses and Ford Escapes that have been converted. NREL, June 2006 Toyota Prius by EnergyCS Golden, CO Terry_Penney@. Progress Energy Corporation by Advanced Vehicle Research Center , with Hymotion kit, July 2007 (Raleigh, NC), contact Mike.Ligett@. Unless otherwise noted, all are Prius.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Wang entered the automobile business in 2003 by buying a Chinese state-owned car company that was all but defunct. In October a BYD sedan called the F3 became the bestselling sedan in China, topping well-known brands like the Volkswagen Jetta and Toyota ( TM ) Corolla. 107.12% Rite Aid Corporation 0.66 On a trip to the U.S.,

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