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Toyota introduces new LPG hybrid taxi in Japan; trial of lane-specific congestion info from taxi data

Green Car Congress

The new model is now available at Toyota and Toyopet dealers nationwide. The new model showcases a people-friendly, universal design that provides usability and comfort to a wide range of people through continual innovations and improvements, from grab handles to the overall vehicle structure.

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Legacy Automakers and the Tesla EV Narrative

EV Adoption

Following are a few steps legacy automakers and dealers (that are actually trying to sell EVs) need to do to help counter the Tesla narrative that has created various expectations by consumers when considering an EV. But automakers and dealers have a significant amount of data on current and past buyers and consumers in general.

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CalCars and PHEVs Frequently Asked Questions

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

For more on plug-in hybrids and V2G, see CalCars Resources , University of Delaware V2G Research Center , and papers from a June 2005 conference in Seattle. Toyota has had a battery recycling program since 1998 and even offers dealers a $200 bounty to ensure batteries arent just thrown away (described at end of linked document).

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The train ride from the village where he grew up to Central South Industrial University of Technology, where he earned his chemistry degree, took him by Yellow Mountain, a popular destination for hikers and tourists, but he has never visited there. "I didnt go then because we had no money," he says. On a trip to the U.S.,

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