Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 31, 2020

How long ago were Detroit automakers thinking about climate change? Our first drive of the 2021 Toyota Sienna was by far our most popular piece of the week. Which electric truck played tug of war with the Ford F-150?

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F-150 Minivan Toyota Climate Change 141

EV Central

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Then there was the FCAI, sometimes described as the mouthpiece of Toyota, which is unkind, because it actually represents lots of other car companies that are also crapping their pants and spilling the excess all over their budget forecasts because Australia might dare to do what every other sensible country did years ago.

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Toyota Standards Australia Buy 125

Baua Electric

MAY 14, 2024

Toyota has the worst climate lobbying score of any automaker, and the third-worst 2030 EV production plans, according to InfluenceMap’s annual report on climate lobbying. Another year, another report showing how bad Toyota is for the environment. For more detail into the rankings, read the full InfluenceMap report here.

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Climate Toyota Global Suzuki 52

Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 27, 2020

A new report underscores that Ford and GM knew about climate change a half-century ago. And we drive Toyota’s hybrid minivan. Lordstown goes public. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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Climate Toyota Minivan Climate Change 99

Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2017

Toyota Motor Corporation has begun accepting applications today for this year’s Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program , which is designed to support environmental revitalization and conservation activities aimed at sustainable development both in Japan and overseas. 2016 Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program Recipients.

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Grant Toyota Myanmar 2017 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Launched during the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris, it now has around 100 vehicles. Toyota will deliver 500 additional Mirai, which will supplement the existing fleet. Hype is developing the world’s first fleet of hydrogen-powered taxis.

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Hydrogen Taxi Climate Change 2020 459

Electrek

JANUARY 10, 2023

Polestar and Toyota are at two opposite ends of the EV spectrum. At a recent media briefing, Polestar’s head of sustainability, Fredricka Klaren, took aim at Toyota and its EV strategy (or lack thereof), claiming anything but a fully electric future will fail to address climate change.

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Climate Change Fuel Toyota Fully Electric 143

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2021

While regional aviation represents a sizable market opportunity and an important early proof point in the fight against climate change, it is a small fraction of total aviation emissions. The gravity of climate change is forcing a tipping point in the green hydrogen ecosystem of producers, distributors, and consumers.

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Hydrogen Universal Financing Los Angeles 397

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

The hydrogen refueling stations will be built in collaboration with Honda and Toyota, who will provide financial support, at seven Shell-branded retail stations across Northern California: three in the city of San Francisco, and one in each of Berkeley, Sacramento, Citrus Heights and Walnut Creek.

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California Honda San Francisco Toyota 150

Plug in America

JULY 20, 2022

Toyota made great environmental strides almost 25 years ago when they introduced the world to the Prius hybrid. It’s time for Toyota to be a leader again and step up its production of an array of all-electric vehicles. Add your name—consumers want battery-electric Toyotas! Are you in this same lane? Raise your voice with us!

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Prius Toyota Electric Cars Buy 79

Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2014

Toyota used the 2014 Milken Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles—which it sponsored, becoming the first automaker to do so—as a platform to argue for fuel cell vehicles and the opportunities they represent.

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Toyota Global Los Angeles Fuel 225

Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2022

Toyota Motor Corporation , and Toyota Tsusho Corporation established the Research Association of Biomass Innovation for Next Generation Automobile Fuels (Research Association) to study ways to optimize the process of producing fuel. ENEOS Corporation, Suzuki Motor Corporation, Subaru Corporation, Daihatsu Motor Co.

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Automobile Japan Fuel Companies 243

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2016

Toyota is partnering with Horizon Educational Group to bring the Hydrogen Horizon Automotive Challenge to 20 California schools in Los Angeles and Orange Counties. The Hydrogen Horizon Automotive Challenge is a semester-long, afterschool program focused on alternative fuels and climate change.

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Los Angeles Toyota Building Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2018

In Japan, Aichi Prefecture, Chita City, Toyota City, Chubu Electric Power, Toho Gas, Toyota Motor Corporation, and Toyota Industries have launched the Chita City and Toyota City Renewable Energy-use Low-carbon Hydrogen Project.

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Hydrogen Carbon Supplies Japan 230

Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2016

WWF and Toyota Motor Corporation have entered into a five-year agreement aimed at accelerating the globe’s transition to sustainability. Toyota is the first car company and the first Japanese company to sign a Global Corporate Partnership agreement with WWF. The agreement went into effect on 1 July 2016.

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Toyota Global Indonesia Climate Change 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Toyota Transport, the automaker’s in-house vehicle transportation trucking company, is using its first car hauler that runs on Compressed Natural Gas (CNG). The CNG truck was commissioned by Toyota and designed and built in a joint collaboration with Peterbilt and Cottrell, Inc., the truck and trailer manufacturers. Cottrell, Inc.

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Transportation Toyota Peterbilt Long Beach 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2021

Today, operating the best-selling gas-powered commercial leaf blower for one hour emits air pollutants comparable to driving a 2017 Toyota Camry from Los Angeles to Denver. We must look beyond transportation if we are to achieve the emissions reductions needed to fight climate change and improve air quality and health in our communities.

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San Francisco Los Angeles California Engine 321

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Addressing key global environmental issues such as climate change, water shortages, resource depletion, and degradation of biodiversity, the Toyota Environmental Challenge 2050 aims to reduce the negative impact of manufacturing and driving vehicles as much as possible. Ever better cars.

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2010 Toyota CO2 Vehicles 150

Green Car Reports

JUNE 11, 2013

European buyers waiting for an electric Toyota may have quite some time to wait--until the electric grid cleans up, basically. That''s the word from Toyota Europe, which says it wants to see cleaner electricity generation before it commits to electric vehicles.

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Cleaner Toyota Europe Climate Change 129

Clean Fleet Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

As concerns about climate change intensify, there is a growing need to transition away from nonrenewable energy sources, not only in power generation but also in transportation. So far, Toyota is leading the race to develop solid-state batteries. Toyota’s building a plant in the U.S.

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Lithium Ion Batteries Battery Energy Storage 77

Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2014

Engineers at Toyota have developed an approach to applying the Atkinson cycle—used in the engines in Toyota hybrids since 1997—for engines in conventional, non-hybrid vehicles. The ESTEC 1NR-FKE achieves 73 kW of output (3 kW higher than the 1NR-FE used in Toyota A and B segment vehicles such as Yaris, iQ, etc.)

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Fuel Economy Economy Engine Toyota 278

Cars That Think

MARCH 4, 2023

However, there’s a shortage of roboticists tackling climate change, due to a lack of awareness of necessary and urgent applications. After talking with many climate robotics founders for my blog, Nirva Labs , here are my findings on how you can find opportunities to help robots make an impact on climate change.

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Climate Change Climate Wind Renewable 92

Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Toyota was in the lead with an 18% market share. Mitsubishi followed Toyota closely behind at 12% share, and Kia came in third with 11% market share. New Zealand rolled out a Clean Car Standard and Clean Car Discount program to address the transportation sector’s CO2 emission levels and combat climate change.

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New Zealand Sale Tesla Climate Change 98

Baua Electric

JANUARY 18, 2024

“Toyota” announced a new eco-conscious AI copilot at the DC Auto Show yesterday, which promises to reduce environmental impact by up to 10% – but it turns out the whole thing was a prank, and the prank makes a real point about Toyota’s tendency towards greenwashing. But it was all organized by pranksters, not Toyota itself.

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Toyota Cleaner Gas-Electric Hybrid 98

Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 22, 2009

For instance, why would advocacy group Plug In America target Toyota , which offers the popular 2010 Prius? Here at GreenCarReports.com, sometimes we get e-mails that make us scratch our heads. Why would it slam the world's undisputed leader in hybrid-car development, the company that made two-thirds of the 2 million hybrids on the roads.

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Climate Change Plug-in Toyota Plug 60

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2019

The study—part of MIT’s five-year Plan for Action on Climate Change—examines how the complex interactions between advanced drivetrain options, alternative fuels, refueling infrastructure, consumer choice, vehicle automation and government policy will shape the future for personal mobility.

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MIT Carbon Future Energy 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2011

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) and Toyota Central R&D Labs., Toyota sought a way of reducing tropospheric ozone concentrations to help address the problem across the whole of South and East Asia. have developed a simulator able to predict tropospheric ozone concentrations across the whole of South and East Asia.

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Ozone Asia Toyota India 199

Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2021

CSIRO is forming broad coalitions of multidisciplinary partners behind each one, which in addition to hydrogen, tackle formidable problems such as antimicrobial resistance; transforming plastic waste; reducing the impact of drought; and helping business to navigate climate change uncertainty.

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Hydrogen Industrial Industry Australia 186

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2020

The driving force for the market continues to be fuel cell vehicles, led by Japan’s Toyota and South Korea’s Hyundai. Just in time, too: climate change targets are looking more urgent and challenging than ever, and we need a full range of technologies to meet them.

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2019 2018 Fuel Asia 186

Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2019

Leading up to this round of funding, FirstElement Fuel has grown its True Zero Network in California, today the largest retail hydrogen network in the world, with financial assistance from the California Energy Commission, Toyota, Honda, the South Coast AQMD, and the Bay Area AQMD. —California Energy Commission Vice Chair, Janea A.

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Hydrogen California San Diego San Francisco 334

Teslarati

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Revel raised $126 million with BlackRock, Toyota Ventures, Maniv Mobility, and Goodyear Ventures participating in the fundraising round. The company also stated that representatives of BlackRock and Toyota Ventures will join Revel’s Board. I’d love to hear from you!

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New York City Charging New York Toyota 111

Green Cars News

JUNE 14, 2013

That''s the been the message from Toyota Europe this week as it told news website Responding To Climate Change that Toyota could leave the European electric car market completely unless it is confident that Europe''s energy mix is gett[.]. Toyota Weekly Column'

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Grid Toyota Cleaner Climate Change 55

Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2021

The research, reported in Nature Materials , is the latest result from a collaboration between Stanford, SLAC, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Toyota Research Institute (TRI). —Patrick Herring, senior research scientist for Toyota Research Institute. This research was funded by Toyota Research Institute.

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MIT Insight Lithium Ion Charging 236

Teslarati

JULY 8, 2022

On Friday, the company says the ACEA lobby’s attempts to address climate change aren’t aggressive enough. In a statement , Volvo Cars said, “What we do as a sector will play a major role in deciding whether the world has a fighting chance to curb climate change. I’d love to hear from you!

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Volvo Climate Change Automobile Manufacturer Climate 98

Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 20, 2010

Toyota Tsusho Corp, a trading house and key Toyota supplier that Toyota owns 22 percent of, just announced that it would be jointly developing a new lithium project in Argentina with the Australian-listed Orocobre Ltd. For more information read: Toyota in Argentine Lithium Deal for Hybrid Car Push. STEP CHANGE IN DEMAND.

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Toyota Argentina Nickel Metal Hydride Lithium Ion 124

Baua Electric

JANUARY 8, 2024

“The greatest responsibility for us as a company is dealing with climate change,” says Daimler Trucks as it lobbies the EPA to water down emissions regulations. Indeed, the report makes cheerful reading—for anyone who doesn’t believe in climate change, and thinks EVs are a passing fad.

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GM Climate Change Charging Mercury 52

Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Toyota reveals how the new Prius AWD-e gets great gas mileage. We had the first chance to drive the new electric Audi e-tron quattro SUV. Startup electric truck-maker Rivian says it plans to follow Tesla's lead in selling cars directly to consumers—mostly. And a new report shows greenhouse gas emissions are back on the rise.

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Prius Audi Toyota Buy 90