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Toyota Alabama sole producer of hybrid-electric twin-turbo V6 and twin-turbo V6 for new Tundra

Green Car Congress

Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Alabama (TMMAL) held an event to mark the first of Toyota’s latest engine products for the all-new 2022 Tundra ( earlier post ) to come off the production line. The V6 Turbo line will produce a new engine every 58 seconds, with a capacity to build 18,000 engines each month. The standard i-FORCE 3.5L

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Toyota Adds Nightshade, Factory Lift to Tundra for 2024

The Truth About Cars

The Big T is adding new trims and options to its Tundra half-ton pickup truck for the 2024 model year, including an expansion of the TRD Off-Road package to its snazzy Platinum-grade 4x4 and extending the availability of the murdered-out Nightshade trim. Of greater interest to this author? Pro tip: They really aren’t.

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Toyota Announces an Ultra-Plush Tundra 1794 Limited Edition for 2024

The Truth About Cars

Toyota hasn’t gone as overboard as most, but its recent redesign of the full-size Tundra ushered in a new era for the auto giant. The 1974 Edition has long been a plush, leather-packed entry near the top of the Tundra lineup, but Toyota announced a new Limited Edition variant that pushes the 1794 deeper into premium territory.

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

Baua Electric

It could be followed by other familiar names like the Tacoma and Tundra. Despite falling behind, Toyota has stuck to its hybrid strategy, including hybrids, plug-in hybrids (PHEVs), battery electric vehicles (EVs), and fuel cell vehicles (FCEVs). New Toyota PHEVs could include a Sequoia SUV, Tundra, and Tacoma.

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2023 Toyota Sequoia Review - A Three-Row Prius?

The Truth About Cars

Toyota wasn’t the first to market a hybrid car here in the U.S. Despite that, the Prius has become the defining hybrid car of the past two decades or so, with the model name occasionally outshining the marque itself. The combination of a live axle and hybridization has another downside - rear headroom.

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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. Fuel economy numbers have not been announced, but the same gasoline-hybrid power plant in the Toyota Tundra pickup gets 20 mpg city/24 highway/22 combined.

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Toyota investing $1B in new TNGA plant in Mexico, realigning North American manufacturing; expansion in Guangzhou

Green Car Congress

Toyota’s other manufacturing plant in Mexico is Toyota Motor Manufacturing de Baja California (TMMBC), which builds Tacoma pickup trucks and Tacoma truck beds. The Cambridge South Plant will continue to build the Lexus RX 350 and 450h, the newest models of which were recently unveiled. Guangzhou Toyota.

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