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Used Car of the Day: 2012 Toyota FJ Cruiser TTSE

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Today's UCOTD is a special 2012 Toyota FJ Cruiser. It's a Trail Teams Special Edition. This one has a six-speed manual and has about 146,500 miles on the odometer. It has factory options such as a locking rear differential, roof rack, and tow package.

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ECS announces 2023-2024 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship recipients

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Yaocai Bai and Yuzhang Li have received the 2023–2024 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowships for projects in green energy technology. Through the ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship, Dr. Bai will address binder removal, the key challenge associated with direct recycling of battery materials today.

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Stellantis and Toyota Europe expand partnership with new large-size commercial van including electric version

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and Toyota Motor Europe N.V. Stellantis will supply TME with the new large-size commercial van for sale in Europe under the Toyota brand. Stellantis will supply TME with the new large-size commercial van for sale in Europe under the Toyota brand. Stellantis N.V.

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Toyota to deploy new acceleration suppression function in Summer 2020

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Toyota Motor Corporation has developed an Acceleration Suppression Function that used big data collected from connected cars to help identify abnormal operation of the accelerator and control acceleration. More recently, in 2018, Toyota launched a retrofit pedal misapplication acceleration control system for certain existing vehicles.

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Toyota to sell RAV4 EV to public and fleets in 2012

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Toyota will bring the RAV4 EV ( earlier post ) to market in 2012. Contrary to some reports, Toyota said , the RAV4 EV will definitely be sold to the general public as well as to fleet users. Toyota will bring two battery electric vehicles to the market in 2012: the RAV4 EV and the Scion iQ EV.

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Toyota CEO steps down, opening up possibility of new EV strategy

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Long-time Toyota CEO and grandson to the company’s founder, Akio Toyoda, has announced that he will leave his position later this year. In 2012, Akio Toyoda was even named the Man of the Year by AutoCar , following the Japanese brand’s rise to dominance in the early 20-teens. Toyota plans $13.6B

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Why do owners of Toyota hybrids keep their vehicles so long?

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Toyota hybrid owners, on average, keep their cars much longer than owners of other vehicles. That's according to a new analysis from iSeeCars, which analyzed 900,000 used cars from model years 2012 and 2013 sold in 2020.

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