Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Toyota Motor Corporation and the MS&AD Insurance Group’s Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance Co., have jointly developed Japan’s first driving behavior-based telematics automobile insurance. Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance is a pioneer of telematics automobile insurance in Japan.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2021

The United States has filed and simultaneously settled a civil lawsuit against Toyota Motor Corporation, Toyota Motor North America Inc., The United States has filed and simultaneously settled a civil lawsuit against Toyota Motor Corporation, Toyota Motor North America Inc.,

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 31, 2024

Analysts say the group companies’ problems are likely to have a limited impact on Toyota’s earnings because their sales and profits are a small fraction of Toyota’s overall global earnings. Hours after the probe began at Toyota Industries Corp.’s Its group global vehicle sales for 2023 were a record 11.22

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 15, 2018

Toyota's hybrid-electric system, launched in Japan in 1997, likely didn't break even until sometime after the 2004 launch of the second-generation Prius. Radically new powertrains are widely assumed to lose money for the companies that launch them.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2012

This milestone was reached 12 years and 11 months after the start of sales of the first generation Insight in Japan November 1999, which realized fuel economy of 35 km/liter (82.3 Toyota hit the 1-million mark for cumulative global hybrid sales at the end of May 2007 ( earlier post ), and has since rocketed past 4 million cumulative units.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2015

To address this, Toyota has successfully added a new muscle model capable of simulating human postural states in the latest version of its Total Human Model for Safety (THUMS) virtual human model software. THUMS Version 5 is available through Tokyo-based JSOL Corporation and ESI Japan.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2009

Total combined Toyota and Lexus hybrid vehicle sales in the US have topped the one million mark, according to Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), USA. Overall, cumulative worldwide sales of Toyota and Lexus hybrids have exceeded 1.7 Toyota launched of the Prius in late 1997 in the Japan market, and in the US in July 2000.

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