Baua Electric

APRIL 18, 2024

Hyundai taps Toray for new EV materials Hyundai Motor announced a strategic partnership with Toray Industries on Thursday, a leader in carbon fiber and composite material tech. For example, Toray is working with California-based Joby Aviation to use carbon fiber on its upcoming all-electric air taxi.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 18, 2024

Hyundai taps Toray for new EV materials Hyundai Motor announced a strategic partnership with Toray Industries on Thursday, a leader in carbon fiber and composite material tech. For example, Toray is working with California-based Joby Aviation to use carbon fiber on its upcoming all-electric air taxi.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2020

For 2021, Toyota has fully rebooted the Mirai, originally offered in 2016, as a premium rear-wheel drive sports-luxury fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) with striking design, cutting-edge technology, more engaging driving performance and a significantly longer EPA-estimated range rating. Luxury Car Chassis.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This 2003 Toyota MR2 Spyder was purchased by our seller in 2010, and it received the 2z engine and a six-speed transmission in a swap in 2014. Today's UCOTD is a highly modified convertible runabout. The front end has been repainted because of rock chips, and this 109,000-mile car has been garaged and not driven in the snow.

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Baua Electric

MAY 19, 2023

Toyota unveiled the 2024 Tacoma, the 2025 Volvo EX30 beggarly defend, and we drove the 2023 Toyota Sequoia. The 2024 Toyota Tacoma teaser marketing campaign ended with a divulge of the mid-size truck. Our editorial staff drove the 2023 Toyota Sequoia and went away underwhelmed. 3-inch touchscreen infotainment gadget.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Carbon fiber is seen by many in the auto industry as one of the most effective ways of reducing vehicle weight and thus improving fuel economy and emissions levels, but the relative expense of the material means that it’s still reserved for only a handful of high-end production cars.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2012

The Nikkei reported that Toyota Motor Corp. and BMW will expand their partnership, one aspect of which will be Toyota providing hybrid systems and fuel cell technology to BMW. Kyodo News also reported the same, attributing it to “Toyota sources”. Toyota already provides hybrid technologies to Mazda Motor. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2021

The BMW i Hydrogen NEXT uses fuel cells from the product development cooperation with the Toyota Motor Corporation. The individual cells come from Toyota, while the fuel cell stack and complete drive system are original BMW Group developments.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

the core company of the Teijin Group’s carbon fibers and composites business, has developed a lightweight multi-material roof cover for a fuel-cell bus made of carbon-fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP), aluminum and other lightweight engineering plastics. Toho Tenax Co., Toho Tenax collaborated with GH Craft Ltd.,

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Pricing for the 2024 Toyota GR Corolla has dropped. Though that issue may be improving as Toyota ramps up production and adds a new trim that’s clearly targeting how most people were already configuring the rally inspired hatchback. Toyota is hyping up some of the new color options. Thus far, this hasn’t resulted in a discount.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 30, 2012

On Thursday, we brought you news that BMW was planning to ditch its partnership with GM to develop fuel cell vehicles, for Japanese rival Toyota. That news has now been confirmed, with a joint press conference on Friday heralding the start of BMW and Toyota's partnership.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2017

At the CAR Management Briefing Seminars (MBS, Toyota was presented with an Altair Enlighten Award for its use of innovative weight reducing vehicle closure systems. The award program honored Toyota’s use of carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) inner panels on the Prius Prime liftgate and Lexus LC 500 side doors and luggage hatch.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The British brand Morris is back with an all-electric, carbon-fiber vehicle. A reconstituted Toyota concept points to future tech for Lexus, and Bosch borrows from airbag technology for a. It’s a morning of returns. The Aptera three-wheeled car is back with in-wheel motor tech.

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Baua Electric

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Toyota will virtue the then 2023 Tokyo auto display to offer an electrical sports activities automobile thought. Toyota has showed it’s operating on an electrical sports activities automobile for showrooms, and that it has a number of design choices at the desk. liter inline-6 referred to as the Storm.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2016

At the 2016 SAE World Congress, Toyota and Clemson University unveiled an innovative, flexible concept called uBox that is intended to appeal to the next generation of car buyers: Gen-Z. The roof pultrusion was something unexpected and very interesting when they first started talking about the concept. —Craig Payne.

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Clean Fleet Report

JULY 2, 2022

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. Toyota New Stuff. – Toyota says the Corolla “rolls into 2023 a changed car.”

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 18, 2023

In a bit of serendipitous timing, we saw earlier this week that a lot of 2023 Toyota Supra buyers are opting for the manual. My test car came with options like a driver-assist package (cruise control, blind-spot monitoring, rear cross-traffic alert, parking sensors), a premium paint job, carpeted floor mats, and carbon-fiber mirror caps.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2017

Toyota’s carbon fiber closure panels for the 2017 Prius Prime and Lexus LC500 ( earlier post ), and Faurecia’s Adaptive Valve for exhaust systems employed on the 2017 Chevrolet Silverado took the top honors for the module category.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2015

At the Geneva motor show, Toyota announced that it would begin sales of the new Mirai fuel cell vehicle ( earlier post ) in Europe by September. Toyota said that it is expecting annual volume of 50-100 cars/year in 2015 and 2016. Toyota said that it is expecting annual volume of 50-100 cars/year in 2015 and 2016.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2012

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) unveiled the FT-Bh (Future Toyota B-segment Hybrid), a lightweight, next-generation small gasoline-electric hybrid concept car at the 82nd Geneva International Motor Show. —Didier Leroy , President and CEO of Toyota Motor Europe. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2016

At the 2015 CES, Toyota announced royalty-free use of approximately 5,680 fuel-cell-related patents held globally, including critical technologies developed for the Mirai fuel cell vehicle. Toyota Fuel Cell System (TFCS). Earlier post.) Earlier post.) Earlier post.) The 2016 paper by Hasegawa et al. FC Boost Converter.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Fiscal year 2017 funding will also be targeted at the development of low-cost, high-strength precursors for carbon fibers that can be used in vehicular hydrogen storage vessels. Source: “2015 Fuel Cell Technologies Market Report” Click to enlarge. Source: “2015 Fuel Cell Technologies Market Report” Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2015

The new institute pairs leading carbon fiber producers and suppliers—such as Materials Innovation Technologies, Harper International, and Strongwell—with key end users such as TPI for wind turbines and Ford, Honda and Volkswagen for automobiles. Adherent Technologies, Inc.; Honda R&D Americas, Inc.; TPI Composites, Inc.;

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2009

Toyota’s targeted cost reductions in fuel cell vehicles. Source: Toyota. In a news conference at the Japan National Press Club on Friday, Toyota Motor President Akio Toyoda said that the company plans to begin mass production of electric vehicles in the US in 2012, followed by US production of fuel cell vehicles in 2015.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2012

The new ultra-light transmission with a carbon fiber housing held up to the Le Mans endurance test covering a distance of 5,151 kilometers in all four vehicles with no problems, the company said. Power from the Motor Generator Unit accelerates the carbon-fiber flywheel, which runs in a high vacuum. The engine is a 3.7-liter

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

In Japan, Toyota Motor held a production ceremony at the Motomachi Plant, which first began production in 1959, to mark the production of the Mirai fuel cell vehicle, which the company launched in November 2014, and began selling in Japan in December 2014. An earlier Toyota video providing more detail on the fuel cell stack itself.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2016

kWh battery pack for twice the electric range of its predecessor, as well as some enhancements to its powertrain, including a Toyota-first dual motor generator drive system. To help make extended EV mode driving range possible using Hybrid Synergy Drive, Toyota modified the system. Toyota didn’t add another motor, however.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The BMW Group sources the individual fuel cells from the Toyota Motor Corporation. The hydrogen needed to supply the fuel cell is stored in two 700-bar tanks made of carbon-fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP). This technology is one of the core elements in the BMW iX5 Hydrogen and generates a high continuous output of 125 kW/170 hp.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Composites containing carbon fibers, based on DSM’s EcoPaXX polyamide 410, Akulon polyamide 6 and Stanyl polyamide 46, will facilitate significant weight reduction in automobile body and chassis parts, while glass fiber reinforced composites will be targeted at reducing the weight of semi-structural components.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2014

Toyota Motor North America, Mercedes-Benz USA, and other national laboratories such as the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Argonne and Sandia. Hyundai, Honda and Toyota are poised to sell fuel-cell cars within the next two years. So far more than two dozen entities have joined H 2 USA, including the American Gas Assn.,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2022

For example, IDTechEx expects that lithium-metal and solid-state batteries, axial flux motors, and carbon fiber materials will play an important role in eVTOL markets. Upcoming IMO policy includes an ‘Energy Efficiency Existing Ship Index (EEXI)’ and the Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII). GWh annually in 2021.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

BYD Yangwang U9 electric supercar (Source: BYD) BYD’s U9 electric supercar features 12 sets of multifunctional active and passive aerodynamics kits, including a 4-speed adjustable electric rear wing, active diffuser, and large carbon fiber rear wing. The entry-level EVs will take on mass-market automakers like Toyota.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 18, 2024

If there was ever a car on the road fitting the bill as future, it is the 2024 Toyota Mirai Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle (FCEV). Exclusively available in California, Toyota sold 2,737 Mirais in 2023. In its second generation, the 2024 Toyota Mirai makes electricity onboard to drive its electric motor.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 22, 2023

Well, the much-maligned older version of the Lexus/Toyota infotainment system might give it away. The Lexus LC rides on an aging platform, but you wouldn’t necessarily know it to drive it. But otherwise, the LC 500 convertible feels as fresh as ever. Not only that but dropping the top of this Lexus doesn’t result in a lot of compromises.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

In addition to the vehicle’s introduction in Japan, Toyota launched the Mirai—a four-door, mid-size fuel cell sedan with performance that fully competes with traditional internal combustion engines—in Los Angeles on the eve of the Los Angeles Auto Show. Toyota FC Stack. Click to enlarge. Mirai powertrain.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2015

Although the SAE World Congress has been running panel sessions on fuel cell vehicle commercialization since 2005, this year was the first in which three participating automakers—Toyota, Hyundai and Honda—had fuel cell vehicles that customers can buy now or within a year. Earlier post.) Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2015

At SAE 2015 World Congress last week, Toyota presented a set of four technical papers describing some of the technology innovations used in its production fuel cell hybrid electric vehicle Mirai ( earlier post ). The new fuel cell stack in Mirai increases the current density by a factor of 2.4 compared to the conventional FC stack.

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