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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. Of them, only 3,500 were fully electric, or 0.6%

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Event: 2022 Chicago Auto Show

Clean Fleet Report

The special edition vehicles included trucks and SUVs sporting an array of accessories and trim kits, while cars and SUVs using electricity are continuing to grow more dominant by the day. Kia Sportage Plug-in Hybrid (PHEV). Toyota Tundra Capstone. The 2022 Chicago Auto Show runs through February 21 at McCormick Place.

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News: 2023 Toyota and Lexus New Products

Clean Fleet Report

The Corolla Cross, launched in 2021 with a gasoline engine, will be joined in 2023 by the compact crossover Corolla Cross Hybrid, one more gasoline-electric hybrid offering from Toyota. – Toyota says the Corolla “rolls into 2023 a changed car.” Hybrid tech added to the Corolla Cross. Corolla Cross Hybrid. GR Cup Series.

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

Plugs and Cars

is working on developing a plug-in hybrid vehicle and is open to joining with other automakers in battery development. 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.

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27,000km Pole to Pole in a Nissan EV?

EV Central

Like climbing Everest without oxygen, or circumnavigating the globe on a rusty Vespa, how about travelling between the Poles in an electric car? That’s the 27,000km odyssey, in a Nissan Ariya electric SUV , planned by husband-and-wife team Chris and Julie Ramsey. ” The pair have previous in EV adventuring. .”

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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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Flash Drive: 2023 Toyota BZ4X EV

Clean Fleet Report

The 2023 BZ4X small SUV is the first-ever mass production all-electric vehicle from Toyota. It joins the line-up of cars and SUVs powered by hybrid, plug-in hybrid and hydrogen fuel cell technology that have made Toyota the world leader in electrified vehicles. Until then, here are some notes to get started. Convenience.

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