The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Toyota Prius was once reviled by most enthusiasts and often the butt of jokes, even in pop culture. The 2023 Toyota Prius changes the narrative without sacrificing the core mission. I never thought I’d see the Chicago Cubs win the World Series. That stereotype was often unfair and inaccurate.

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 8, 2024

CHICAGO – As part of the festivities during 2024 NASCAR Chicago Street Race event in Chicago this past weekend, NASCAR unveiled a prototype EV. Those OEMs, of course, are Ford, GM, and Toyota. At least not anytime soon.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 25, 2024

In July, during the Chicago Street Race event, NASCAR unveiled a prototype battery-powered race car that marks the beginning of its push to decarbonize motorsports. This feature most advantageous on road courses like the one in Chicago and on short oval tracks like Martinsville Speedway in Virginia.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

A paper by a team from the University of Chicago and MIT suggests that technology-driven cost reductions in fossil fuels will lead to the continued use of fossil fuels—oil, gas, and coal—unless governments pass new taxes on carbon emissions. Their analysis is published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2021

The Toyota Research Institute (TRI) has selected 13 additional academic institutions to participate in the next five-year phase of its collaborative research program. Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC). Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). Indiana University. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

The 2017 Kia Niro "hybrid utility vehicle" revealed this morning at the Chicago Auto Show marks the South Korean brand's ambitious entry into dedicated hybrids.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

And the latest 2020 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid, revealed at the Chicago Auto Show today, looks to be a great example of that. Just two and a half years after the arrival of the current Toyota Camry Hybrid and its 52-mpg EPA combined rating—the first.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 25, 2023

The Toyota Prius has pretty much always been focused solely on fuel economy. The redesigned 2023 Toyota Prius is supposed to change all that without sacrificing all that fuel-economy stuff. Toyota bumps the power by giving the hybrid a larger gas engine – it’s now 2.0-liters Images: Toyota] Become a& TTAC& insider.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Over the last 10 years, the Hyundai Elantra has emerged into the top tier of compact sedans, joining longstanding leaders like the Ford Focus, Honda Civic, Toyota Corolla, and Volkswagen Jetta as well as more recent contenders like the Chevrolet Cruze and Subaru Impreza.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2009

The Nikkei reports that Toyota Industries Corp. In January, Toyota Industries had given the concept hybrid lift truck its North American debut at ProMat 2009 in Chicago. will introduce a hybrid forklift—powered by an internal combustion engine and an electric motor—as early as this fiscal year.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 23, 2024

NASCAR is not giving a timeline of when it might introduce electric race cars, but if it did it is easy to imagine the prototype being reskinned as a Ford Mustang Mach-E , Chevrolet Blazer EV , or Toyota bZ4X in keeping with NASCAR’s current practice of racing cars branded as ones fans can buy.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

The new Ecopia EP100 is the first aftermarket product in the Ecopia tire line for the North American market, and is a summer replacement tire fitment for popular fuel efficient, hybrid and electric vehicles including the Mini Cooper, Toyota Prius, Honda Civic Hybrid, Nissan Versa, Toyota Corolla and a selection of other conventional vehicles.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 24, 2024

Chicago’s iconic Wrigley Field baseball stadium has been home to the MLB’s Chicago Cubs for over a century – and now, it’s taking steps to cater to the next generations of fans by adding EV charging to its list of amenities.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2009

Toyota Motor Sales (TMS) USA introduced the 2010 Tundra full-size pickup truck and an all-new 4.6-liter liter V8 engine at the 2009 Chicago Auto Show. liter V8 engine will be available on all 2010 model year Tundra models.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2016

There has been little recent research into the emission durability of these new fleets, and in this paper, we examine some recent and historical emission data from the Seattle and Chicago area to obtain a picture of how current livery vehicle emissions compare to the rest of the fleet and examine their importance to fleet emissions.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2013

Following the conclusion of a collaboration with Toyota ( earlier post ), Ford is moving forward with the development of a rear-wheel-drive hybrid system on its own; the company says that it will have the hybrid system ready “later this decade” on rear-wheel-drive Ford pickups and SUVs. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Toyota announced this week that it had ended what it called a “decade-long debate” by decreeing that the plural of Prius would be Prii henceforth and to the end of time. Toyota unveiled the winning word at the Chicago Auto Show this morning. Okay, they didn’t say that last part.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Last week's Chicago Auto Show had relatively few debuts; the Chevrolet Cruze diesel and a redesigned Toyota Tundra pickup truck were the most noteworthy. But the featured speaker at a luncheon thrown by the Economic Club of Chicago drew a full room: Henrik Fisker, cofounder of struggling startup automaker Fisker Automotive.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 28, 2016

Unlike the Toyota Prius or the 2017 Hyundai Ioniq from its sister company, the Niro takes the form of a crossover utility vehicle, rather than a hatchback. That makes the Niro—which debuted in February at the 2016 Chicago Auto Show—the first of its kind.

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Baua Electric

JULY 9, 2024

NASCAR surprised attendees at its Chicago Street Race on Saturday with the debut of a fully electric SUV prototype. But with that shift nowhere in sight, the soonest that’s estimated to arrive now is around 2027—despite current competition cars emulating the Ford Mustang Mach-E, Toyota bZ4X, and Chevrolet Blazer EV.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 4, 2023

As we've written before, NASCAR needs to mix things up , whether it is the street style races that debuted this year in Chicago, new models and technology, or more ways to watch the races. All eyes are now on the Next Gen cars, the latest generation introduced at the start of the 2022 season.

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All Cars Electric

JANUARY 28, 2010

As widely reported yesterday, Toyota has suspended sales of 8 models due to a faulty accelerator pedal mechanism. So what does a Chicagoland Toyota dealership do when it can't sell Corollas, Camrys or RAV4s until.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The press day at the 2023 Detroit Auto Show was so quiet that I ended my day two states away – sleeping in my own bed in Chicago. Chicago – full disclosure, I’ve done some work for the group that runs the show in the past – is a trickier one to predict. The only coffee I saw was at Lincoln’s booth, and it was damn good.

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Baua Electric

MAY 23, 2023

Enlargement for Kohli in Wisconsin Chicago broker Shawn Kohli expanded endmost pace with the acquisition of 3 Wisconsin dealerships. A co-owner of Town Auto Crew in Chicago, Kohli mentioned the Wisconsin retail outlets are independent from that team. Webb Car’s 3rd dealership is Webb Toyota in Farmington.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2015

AllCell Technologies, LLC, a Chicago-based Lithium-ion battery pack manufacturer for smart-grid, autonomous and light electric vehicle applications, and LG Chem Ltd. Industry leaders such as Kiva, Toyota-Raymond, and Hyster-Yale have announced products or product testing with lithium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

Today we cover Tesla''s plan to sell batteries for home energy storage, the Mitsubishi Concept GC-PHEV plug-in hybrid''s appearance at the 2015 Chicago Auto Show, and an effort by Honda, Nissan, and Toyota to support hydrogen fueling sites in Japan. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Buses in nine markets are immediately being converted to run on B20 where the fuel is centrally stored and available: Boston, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami, Raleigh/Durham, San Antonio and San Diego.

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

I don't want to venture a guess on what that means for Toyota's battery EV future. One could argue that Toyota has decided EVs aren't yet worth the investment -- even though the brand sells the bZ4X. One could also argue the opposite -- perhaps Toyota is going hybrid as a bridge towards moving the Camry to an EV setup in the future.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2011

The 19 launch markets also include Atlanta; Austin and Houston, Texas; Boston; Chicago; Denver; Detroit; Los Angeles; San Francisco; San Diego; New York; Orlando, Fla.; Availability of the Focus Electric will expand in 2012 to the remaining 15 launch markets as production ramps up. Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz.; Portland, Ore.; Richmond, Va.;

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2011

Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston and California. Hino Trucks, a Toyota Group Company, assembles, sells and services class 4-7 commercial trucks in the United States and is headquartered in Novi, Michigan. Hino developed the world’s first hybrid bus in 1991, and has been continuously evolving its hybrid technology ever since.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

The study, which was funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Richard King Mellon Foundation, the Electric Power Research Institute, the Heinz Endowment, the National Science Foundation, and Toyota Motor Corporation, also examined a hypothetical case with increased wind power.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 31, 2023

Zipcars can be found in Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, New York, Philadelphia, Providence, Sacramento, San Diego, Zipcar users have a card that unlocks their local cars San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C. In the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2009

The software upgrade is based upon patented technology developed by Chicago-based Ewert Energy Systems , which has granted PICC exclusive rights for its use in Prius conversion kits. What we’re essentially offering is all-electric performance for about 25 miles at highway speeds.

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Plug In Partners

OCTOBER 10, 2006

must not be 'hostage' to foreign oil February 20, 2006 MIT researchers invent new hybrid car battery February 7, 2006 Re-thinking the world's economic future February 7, 2006 100-M.P.G.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Both Toyota and Ford are now producing a few prototype conversions of their own Priuses and Escapes for research purposes.) Hybrid Electric Vehicle Technologies www.hevt.com Chicago, IL converts Ford F-150 pickup trucks. Hymotion www.hymotion.com Concord, Ontario, Canada retrofits the Toyota Prius.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 7, 2022

He left Tokyo in 2013 to become president of the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago and served in that position until 2019. In 1977 Tredennick joined Motorola in Chicago as a senior design engineer in the integrated circuits division. He then was named chair of its board of trustees and held that position for three years.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Some of the automakers include in that agreement are Volkswagen, BMW, Ford, General Motors, Fiat, Toyota and Mitsubishi. Caroline Reichert, a spokeswoman for the Germany energy company RWE , said leading automotive and energy companies have reached an agreement for a standardized plug for electric cars. by RSS or sign up by email.

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