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Toyota and Google Cloud partner to bring AI-powered speech services to Toyota and Lexus vehicles without the cloud

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Toyota and Google Cloud announced an expanded partnership that brings together Toyota and Lexus next-generation audio multimedia systems and Google Cloud’s AI-based speech services. The partnership highlights the AI and machine learning innovation brought forth in the latest Toyota and Lexus infotainment systems.

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Toyota Motor Manufacturing Turkey to become Toyota’s first European plant to produce plug-in-hybrid vehicles and batteries

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The second-generation Toyota C-HR will be produced at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Turkey (TMMT) in Sakarya—about 150 km east of Istanbul. In addition, TMMT will be Toyota’s first European plant to start producing plug-in hybrid vehicles, and the first to be equipped with a battery production line.

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Lexus brand will lead Toyota on Tesla’s Gigacasting techniques

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Toyota luxury brand Lexus will lead the Japanese automaker into the use of Tesla’s Gigacasting techniques, after a handful of companies have announced plans this year to invest in transitioning to the technology for future electric vehicle (EV) production.

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Lexus Stuffs GR Engine Up the Nose of a Small Crossover

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Entertaining product tends to crop up, that’s what. This is the Lexus LBX, a tiny machine which is nearly a foot shorter than the already diminutive UX crossover that’s been on sale in America for a spell. & [Images: Lexus] Become a& TTAC& insider. A turbocharged 1.6-liter What do you think?

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2025 Lexus UX 300h AWD hybrid earns 42 mpg, starts around $40,000

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The updated 2025 Lexus UX 300h has been given official EPA ratings, and for the popular all-wheel-drive version they’re a bit better than what the Toyota luxury brand estimated months ago. liter inline-4 gasoline engine with more powerful electric motors. Although this U.S. That drops the 0-60 mph times slightly, to 7.9

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News: 2023 Toyota and Lexus New Products

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Toyota and Lexus held their annual new product showcase the first week of June at their Plano, Texas, headquarters. This overview, in alphabetical order, is a glimpse of what Toyota and Lexus have coming out in the next few months. Lexus New Stuff. Lexus RX 350, 350h, 450h+ and 500h. Lexus RZ 450e.

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Pony.ai and Toyota to form JV to advance mass production of L4 autonomous vehicles

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Pony.ai , a leading global autonomous driving company, Toyota Motor (China) Investment Co., TMCI) and GAC Toyota Motor Co., GTMC) will form a joint venture to advance the future mass production and large-scale deployment of fully driverless robotaxis. In August 2019, Pony.ai Among its self-owned fleets, Pony.ai

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