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Toyota introduces 2022 Toyota Tundra pickup with new i-FORCE MAX hybrid option

Green Car Congress

Toyota has introduced the new third-generation Tundra full-size pickup with two different powertrain configurations. A newly developed Power Control Unit (PCU) is used to achieve excellent battery durability and thermal performance with a focus on drive performance. A tailgate release on the key fob is standard on all models.

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Toyota plots an all-electric Highlander SUV, will the Tundra and Tacoma be next?

Baua Electric

After a slow start, Toyota is looking to shake things up with its next round of electric cars. Toyota’s second best-selling SUV in the US, the Toyota Highlander, is going fully electric. It could be followed by other familiar names like the Tacoma and Tundra. Of them, only 3,500 were fully electric, or 0.6%

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Flash Drive: 2022 Toyota Tundra

Clean Fleet Report

All-New Including a Hybrid Option. If that vehicle happens to be a full-size pickup, then all the better. This is what Toyota has done with the all-new 2022 Tundra, which we previewed in a Texas-based drive program last week. All come with a 10-speed automatic transmission with tow and haul driving modes.

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2023 Toyota Sequoia Review - A Three-Row Prius?

The Truth About Cars

.& It only stands to reason that the largest vehicles in a lineup, those vehicles for which fuel economy has never been the sole focus, should be among the last to see battery power. While the full-sized Tundra offers the choice between a standard turbo V-6 and hybridization, this 2023 Toyota Sequoia is hybrid only.

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Finding Battery Minerals With AI

Cars That Think

In 2022, more than 10 million electric cars were sold around the world, up 55 percent over sales in 2021. For this trend to continue, though, mining companies need to find a lot more of the metals used to build electric cars and their batteries. And to make a lithium-ion battery, you need lithium ions.

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Flash Drive: 2023 Toyota Sequoia

Clean Fleet Report

All-New, All Hybrid. Toyota has added another model to its ever increasing stable of electrified vehicles with the all-new 2023 Sequoia now exclusively hybrid powered. headquarters in Plano, Texas, the first week of June to be among the first to drive the all-new 2023 Sequoia. An engine now augmented by electric drive.

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27,000km Pole to Pole in a Nissan EV?

EV Central

Like climbing Everest without oxygen, or circumnavigating the globe on a rusty Vespa, how about travelling between the Poles in an electric car? That’s the 27,000km odyssey, in a Nissan Ariya electric SUV , planned by husband-and-wife team Chris and Julie Ramsey. ” The pair have previous in EV adventuring.

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