The Truth About Cars

JULY 26, 2023

Toyota is a sleeping giant. They’ve been building solid-but-boring cars, trucks, and crossovers for several decades, succeeding due to a legacy of anvil-like reliability. Instead, we see this 2023 Toyota GR Corolla Morizo Edition. Take a gander, first, at the exterior of this car. Our cats don’t like cars.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 22, 2024

From Consumer Reports : The comparison for fresher cars is muddied because a number of brands, including BMW and Toyota, offer free maintenance periods on new cars. And usually, cars need very little work in the first couple of years beyond an oil change and tire rotation.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2010

The Nikkei reports that Toyota Motor Corp. indicated that it plans to develop an electric-car prototype jointly with Tesla Motors Inc. As the first step, the two firms aim to develop a prototype based on a current Toyota model using Tesla’s lithium-ion-battery-based system. Tags: Brief. for testing as early as this year.

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Teslarati

JULY 5, 2023

The Tesla Model Y has become a top-selling car in Iceland and Australia. The Tesla Model Y became the best-selling car within the first 6 months of 2023. The Tesla Model Y became the best-selling car within the first 6 months of 2023. Iceland has been partial to Toyota vehicles over the last few decades.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 19, 2023

We may revisit this topic next week to avoid turning this post into a gazillion-word tome rivaling War & Peace; such is the amount of change hurled by Toyota at their best-selling midsize pickup truck. It tag teams an electric motor and 1.87-kWh Toyota is choosing not to offer these trims in some markets.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 1, 2020

The RAV4 Prime plug-in hybrid has a price tag. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. The Tesla Model 3 is outselling some longtime chart-topping nameplates in California. Audi starts an EV-focused team that sounds a lot like Ford’s Team Edison. And could the Kia Stinger go all-electric?

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2010

The Toyota Prius was the top-selling passenger car (excluding mini-cars and imported cars) in Japan in 2009, according to data from the Japan Automobile Dealers Association (JADA). of the total new passenger car sales (standard, compact and mini-cars) of 3,923,740 units. Tags: Brief. Click to enlarge.

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EV Central

JANUARY 13, 2024

It’s time for our editors to vent about their electric car experiences and expectations! For a couple of years now it’s outsold the Toyota Camry, which is no small achievement given it costs tens of thousands of dollars more. 2023 MG4 While the entry-level car is sparsely appointed, it’s terrific to drive and a practical size.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2010

Toyota has unveiled the Etios concept at the 10 th Auto Expo automobile show in New Delhi, India. The Etios is a compact car newly developed specifically for the Indian market. To make the car as affordable as possible for potential customers, Toyota plans thorough use of local parts to keep costs low. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2016

Autonomous vehicle technology company Nauto has entered into strategic agreements with three major auto companies, including BMW i Ventures and Toyota Research Institute, as well as with Allianz Ventures, part of the leading global financial service provider and insurance company Allianz Group.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Toyota Motor’s production and sales subsidiary in India, Toyota Kirloskar Motor Private, Ltd. TKM), plans to unveil a concept for a new compact car designed for the Indian market, as well as display 13 other concept and production vehicles, at the 10 th Auto Expo automobile show in New Delhi from 5-11 January 2010.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

At its event last week in Japan during which it outlined its plans for eco-car development ( earlier post ) Toyota displayed a prototype of a solid-state Li-ion battery. Because Toyota exhibited the cell right after it was charged, it output a voltage of 16.26V (4.065V per layer). Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Tesla Motors is interested in licensing its battery and other EV technologies to Toyota Motor Corp. and others, Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk told The Nikkei.Tesla has already contacted tie-up partners Toyota and Daimler AG and asked them if they are interested in licensing its technologies, Musk said. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Such research is aimed to help bring about the revolutionary advances in battery performance that will be necessary for the broad adoption of electric-motor-propelled eco-cars. Tags: Brief. TMC is researching development of next-generation secondary batteries with performance that greatly exceeds that of lithium-ion batteries.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 29, 2009

is reporting: "Toyota's iQ-based electric car, due to be launched in 2010, will get its own body style to create a stand-alone model which will become Toyota’s first all-electric car" (emphasis added.) I'm pretty sure I just stepped out of my 2002 Toyota RAV4 EV. Toyota still wishing away it's own achievement.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2009

The Nikkei reports that Toyota Motor Corp. plans to develop a compact car with subsidiary minicar specialist Daihatsu Motor Co. Toyota currently holds a 51.2% Aside from the joint effort with Daihatsu, Toyota has been developing on its own a compact entry-level family car powered by a roughly 1-liter engine.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2010

will introduce as early as 2013 a mid-size hybrid vehicle based on core components supplied by Toyota Motor Corp. The two automakers have reached a final agreement under which Toyota will supply the Toyota Hybrid System II, comprising a high-capacity battery, an electric motor, a generator and a power control unit.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2010

Tesla Motors will deliver two battery electric mules to Toyota Motor by the end of the month, combing Tesla’s electric drive system and battery packs and the bodies of Toyota vehicles. That car is under development, Toyota said at the time, and is intended primarily for short-term rental use within cities. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2010

The Nikkei reports that Toyota Motor Corp. will supply small cars on an OEM basis to Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., the maker of Subarus, in which Toyota holds a 16.5% This would be the first time that Toyota would provide finished vehicles to another Japanese automaker. Tags: Brief. liter engine.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

The Nikkei reports that Toyota Motor Corp. Tianjin FAW Toyota Motor Co. has developed an electric vehicle prototype based on Toyota’s Vios subcompact. The car will not be sold as a Toyota, but under a local brand of the Chinese joint venture. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2009

Toyota plans to introduce a hydrogen fuel cell car by 2015, according to comments made by vice president Masatami Takimoto in response to a question during a shareholders’ meeting at Toyota headquarters. Toyota is also applying its fuel cell technology in buses, material handling equipment, and residential co-generation systems.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2010

Toyota wants to begin trials of its plug-in hybrid vehicles in China as soon as possible, according to Takeshi Uchiyamada, a Toyota executive vice president, speaking at a press conference at Auto China 2010 in Beijing. The Toyota Prius plug-in hybrid is making its China debut at Auto China 2010. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC), Toyota Chemical Engineering Co., Toyota Chemical Engineering), Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Tags: Brief. Sumitomo Metal Mining) and Primearth EV Energy Co., Business structure of battery-to-battery recycling. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2010

Toyota plans to begin a gradual rollout in Japan in mid-2010 of its newly developed “G Sports” (G) sports conversion car series. The series, to be sold through Toyota-brand dealers, is meant to offer to a wider range of people the “automotive seasoning” that TMC has pursued through its GAZOO Racing activities. Click to enlarge.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Automotive designs and engineering are rapidly evolving, and new cars today look and perform differently than models from just a few years ago. Toyota came in second with one Top Safety Pick + and 12 Top Safety Picks. That’s especially true for heavier, much quicker electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Toyota Motor Corporation will continue to use NimH packs for most of its hybrid vehicles after three years of testing Priuses fitted with Li-ion packs. Toyota last month ended road tests of 126 Priuses in the US, Japan and Europe that began in 2006, company spokeswoman Jana Hartline said in an interview. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2010

The Nikkei reported that Toyota Motor Corp. Given that Toyota now produces about 90% of its hybrids at home, global output of such vehicles is expected to surpass 1 million in 2011 when those assembled in China, the US and elsewhere are included. Toyota currently assembles hybrids at six domestic factories and four overseas sites.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2009

Guangzhou Toyota will begin production of the Camry Hybrid in China in 2010. Toyota introduced the Camry Hybrid to the China market at the 2009 Shanghai auto show earlier this year. Guangzhou Toyota will expand its in-country sales outlets to 300 from 210. class of cars. Tags: Brief. increase over 2009 sales.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2009

Toyota Motor Europe (TME) and Aston Martin are collaborating on the “Cygnet”—a new luxury commuter car based on the iQ platform ( earlier post ) that will be exclusively built for and sold to Aston Martin owners. Tags: Brief. Tadashi Arashima, CEO and President of TME.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2009

The Nikkei reports that Toyota Motor Corp. plans to slash production costs by ¥100 billion (US$1 billion) by sharing common parts and platforms for Japan-made cars in the 1- to 1.8-liter Toyota plunged into a 461 billion yen [US$4.7 Tags: Brief. liter class. These include the Vitz, Raum, Ractis and Corolla.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) plans to make vehicle liner material and other interior surfaces from a new bio-PET-based “Ecological Plastic” Bio-PET is polyethylene terephthalate; it consists of 70% terephthalic acid and 30% monoethylene glycol, by weight. Tags: Bio-polymers Materials Plastics Vehicle Systems.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Worldwide cumulative sales of the Toyota Prius have passed the 2-million mark, with approximately 2,012,000 units sold as of the end of September, according to Toyota. The Wall Street Journal reports that, according to dealers briefed on the plans, Toyota will introduce two new variants of the Prius hybrid in the US by the end of 2012.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2010

will start supplying Toyota Motor Corp. FHI) with carbon fiber for car bodies later this year—the first use of carbon fiber for auto bodies mass-produced in Japan. Toyota reportedly will use carbon fiber for the hood and roof of the Lexus LFA, a luxury sports car to be produced starting in December.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2010

Toyota Motor Corp. Toyota Motor Kyushu Inc. liter engines for hybrid cars currently handled at the Kamigo facility. Toyota also plans to implement an integrated production model for hybrids at a factory in the Tohoku region starting late next year, according to the report. Tags: Brief.

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Teslarati

JUNE 25, 2022

Specifically, Neal wants to attract over 1,500 classic cars , and hopes to attract ~120,000 people to the City of Adelaide to come to the event. More premium companies include Charge Cars, Zero Labs, and ICON 4×4. The post Classic car rally to allow EVs to participate for the first time appeared first on TESLARATI.

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Plugs and Cars

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Toyota is knocking plug-in cars at CARB and in the press and touting impossible to deliver near-term hydrogen fuel cell commercialization. Toyota Motor Corp is considering working with affiliate Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd to develop its electric vehicles," according to Mainichi newspaper as reported by Reuters. Source: Reuters.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MAY 25, 2010

Tesla has breathed new life into the recently shut down NUMMI plant in Fremont, announcing its plans last week to team up with Toyota to start making its $50,000 electric Model S at the NUMMI plant. Resurrection of NUMMI auto plant by Tesla and Toyota lifts spirits all over Fremont. By Patrick May. pmay@mercurynews.com. Advertisement.

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