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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. It only makes sense for an all-electric version.

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Interview Sheds Light On Toyota’s Thinking About EVs

CleanTechnica EVs

A recent interview at CarBuzz with Mike Sweers, executive chief engineer for the Toyota Tundra, Sequoia, Tacoma, and 4Runner programs at Toyota Motor North America, gives us some insight into Toyota’s thinking not only on electric trucks, but electric vehicles in general.

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News: 2023 Toyota and Lexus New Products

Clean Fleet Report

The bigger news is that the Corolla Hybrid, which gets 52 mpg on the highway, will have the option of electronic on-demand all-wheel drive that has a rear-mounted electric motor. Built off the Tundra pickup platform, the Sequoia offers three-row seating in comfort and style. Tundra SX Package. For a full review, go here.

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Shill for a Withering Lie

Plugs and Cars

You see Phelan was in North Carolina recently to test drive the new Toyota Tundra. As Toyota planned it, we see Prius, they sell Tundra. As Phelan tells this tale , (registration required) midway through their Tundra talk, Ernest Bastien, Toyota Motor Sales vice president for vehicle operations, surprisingly rose to defend GM.

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Plug-in Hybrids in Toyota's Future, Jim Press Tells Reuters; Desires Joint OEM Battery Research

Plugs and Cars

Reuters reports on an interview with Toyota North American President Jim Press that Toyota Motor Corp. Echoing its American counterparts Ford and GM, Toyota bemoans the unavailability of batteries which will take their plug-ins half as far as their own electric cars could manage just 5 years ago. Prove me wrong, Jim.

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myenergi’s Ultimate Guide To Greenland

My Energi

Greenlands first ever world televised motor sport race will take place on 28th – 29th August 2021, which will be the Extreme E series, find out more here. The country’s plant life is characterised as ‘Tundra Vegetation’ as is consists of plants like sedge and cotton grass. Wildlife Facts. Existing EV Infrastructure.

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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 then of course we use copper windings in the electric motors as well.