Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 4, 2012

What Google can do with a Toyota Prius, someone else can do with a Nissan Leaf. At least, that’s the message NIssan wants to send after showcasing its own take on Google’s automated car at the 2012 Ceatec exhibition in Japan.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 14, 2012

When computer software giant Google first unleashed its camera-equipped Streetview cars in the U.S. to photograph and map her roads, it chose the humble Toyota Prius as its workhorse.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 6, 2012

Just before the holidays at the end of last year, Google welcomed the first 2012 Ford Focus Electric to roll off the production lines into its ever-expanding G Fleet of plug-in and hybrid cars.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 8, 2012

After more than 300,000 miles of testing, Google’s automated self-driving Toyota Priuses have proven that self-driving cars have a future. Now Google is adding another hybrid car to its self-driving fleet: the 2012 Lexus RX450h luxury crossover SUV.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 29, 2012

Steve Mahan got into a Toyota Prius hybrid, drove to the dry cleaner's, picked up some clothes he'd left to be cleaned, and drove home. He did it, though, with a little help from Google. The trip was about a mile and a half. Steve Mahan is legally blind. He's lost 95 percent of his vision.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2020

A team led by Southwest Research Institute has applied connectivity and automation to achieve a 20% improvement in efficiency on a 2017 Toyota Prius Prime. Using a mapping tool like Google Maps, drivers can set their destinations and see routes that may add a couple of minutes to their arrival, but that are more fuel efficient.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2016

Last November, Toyota Motor established a new company—Toyota Research Institute Inc. At a press conference at CES 2016, TRI CEO and Toyota Executive Technical Advisor Dr. Gill Pratt laid out his new company’s near-term approach and challenges it seeks to address, as well as its much larger ambitions. Earlier post.) (The

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2023

PP100 gap exists between vehicles that have an Android Automotive OS without Google Automotive Services (51.1 The parent corporation receiving the most model-level awards is General Motors Company (seven awards), followed by Hyundai Motor Group (five) and Toyota Motor Corporation (four). Nissan Motor Co., Plant Quality Awards.

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Green Cars News

MAY 28, 2014

Search giant Google has announced it is to take a bold new step and start building its own electric self-driving cars. Google has been exploring autonomous driving since 2010, but has so far adapted Toyota Prius cars with its own sat-nav, radar, cameras and sensors to make them operate without the[.].

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Signed into law yesterday by the California Governor Jerry Brown, Google with now be able to test its fleet of modified Toyota Priuses as long as there is still a human being behind the wheel, [.]. Self-driving cars have come a step closer to reality as a new legislation in California approved the use autonomous vehicles.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

is a partnership with Google. Integrating products like Google Maps and other purpose-built features will hopefully make phone integration better than ever. Volvo has already worked with Google on its in-car experience, and even entry-level brands like Toyota and General Motors have shown an aptitude for software investment.

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 19, 2007

With Google's street cred (Wall Street and your street,) intellectual prowess and financial clout, electricity may at long last get a seat at the table. Just as Toyota announces delays on the next-generation (read plug-in hybrid) Prius and Honda cancels its hybrid Accord, Google has thrown down the gauntlet.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 18, 2021

I nearly closed all my Google Sheets and left the topic of US EV […]. I just published a report highlighting the fact that Tesla’s US sales have been growing as the overall auto market has tanked, and I also published one looking at companies’ EV share of auto sales (Tesla being at 100%, of course).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2016

The Financial Times reports that Uber will invest $500 million into a global mapping project in an effort to decrease its dependence on Google Maps and to prepare for autonomous driving. Uber has already hired Brian McClendon, formerly the head of Google Maps for more than a decade. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Toyota came in seventh with a spend of $9.1 Toyota had been in 6 th place in 2013, and in the Nº 2 spot behind Volkswagen in 2012.). Apple led that list, followed by Google, Amazon and Samsung. Volkswagen, which spent US$13.5 billion on R&D in 2014 according to the report, was followed closely by Samsung ($13.4

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 3, 2021

Tesla, Volvo, Mercedes (Daimler), BMW, Audi, GM, Ford, Nissan, Toyota and others are now delivering cars with some of these features and developing cars with all of these. When I drove the Toyota Avalon Hybrid with adaptive cruise control, the car automatically slowed when I too quickly approached the car in front of me.

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Baua Electric

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Neiman Marcus do business in one-off Cadillac Celestiq for $975,000 2025 Mercedes-Benz G-Magnificence spied with updates 2024 Porsche 911 GT3 RS MR is honed on the ‘Ring Toyota Brilliant Highlander vs Toyota Highlander: What’s the extra?

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 18, 2011

Where Google leads, Yahoo is close behind. If Yahoo employees were beginning to envy the employees of rival search engine Google, then the Silicon Valley firm has come up with a solution. While Google recently added Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf models to its employee pool fleet (see story), Yahoo has now added a Toyota [.].

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Baua Electric

JUNE 6, 2023

You’ll in finding those tales and extra in lately’s automotive information, proper right here at Motor Authority.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2016

Toyota (Japan) is the overall global leader in autonomous automotive innovation, followed by Bosch (Germany), Denso (Japan), Hyundai (South Korea) and GM (US). Google ranks 19 th in the world in this area, followed by Ford at number 20. Toyota and Hyundai take the second and third places.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Many of the world’s top automakers and their Tier 1 suppliers have licensed WiTricity’s technology, including Toyota, Mahle, TDK, IHI, Shindengen, Daihen, Aptiv, Anjie Wireless, Yura, VIE, Green Power, and Lumen Freedom. The technology can already be seen in action with McLaren’s Speedtail Hyper-GT and the BMW 530e iPerformance.

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 21, 2007

Rainforest Action Network is prodding Toyota to add plugs to their hybrids. Google is spending oodles doing it to their cars, but the rest of us need the carmakers to produce the plug-in hybrids and electric cars we want. Of course, Toyota could do it today with larger NiMH battery packs.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 27, 2023

Aurora is the self-driving technology company founded by one of the original engineers of the Google Self-Driving Car Project, now Waymo, and it’s also working on a robotaxi service in partnership with Toyota. You’ll find these stories and more in today’s car news, right here at Motor Authority.

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Toyota GR Corolla Morizo: I reviewed this earlier this year, and I keep thinking about it. I’d probably choose a non-Morizo package as I still have people who like me and would want to ride with me, but that Toyota can build and sell such an uncompromising car (five-door hatch with just two seats!) Is remarkable.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 22, 2015

As shown by its roughly half-million references in Google, Tesla’s lithium-ion cell and battery Gigafactory is a big deal. And deservedly so.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2012

DENSO’s Qi-compatible wireless cell phone charger will make its world debut in North America on the 2013 Toyota Avalon Limited as part of a technology package available for both the gasoline and hybrid versions. Qi is a standard for inductive wireless charging developed and maintained by the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

Qualcomm recently partnered with Google and unveiled plans for an Android Nougat-based car platform. Yet, although car OEMs like Audi, BMW, Kia, and Toyota Motor currently use Google’s Android Auto technology for search, map, and other functions, ABI Research predicts Android N will likely not appear in cars before 2020.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 29, 2024

What should come as no surprise to most people is that American automaker Tesla dominated Google Trends search data for EVs last year. Still, gas and hybrid specialist Toyota remained the most searched auto brand, not by any specific state. Here’s how it was gathered. Hyundai 18.6 Mercedes-Benz 15.1 million 10.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 16, 2022

CERF Google, LLC Reston, Va. IEEE MEDAL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND SAFETY TECHNOLOGIES Sponsor: Toyota Motor Corp. IEEE MILDRED DRESSELHAUS MEDAL Sponsor: Google, LLC MELBA CRAWFORD Purdue University West Lafayette, Ind. Meet the recipients of the 2023 IEEE Medals and Recognitions. IEEE FRANCES E.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

And, surprisingly for such a large movement, the funding is mostly coming from sources outside of the traditional venture-capital community—rich investors and multinational corporations.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2015

One of the studies showed that it is highly distracting to use hands-free voice commands to dial phone numbers, call contacts, change music and send texts with Microsoft Cortana, Apple Siri and Google Now smartphone personal assistants, though Google Now was a bit less distracting than the others. and Toyota 4Runner with Entune (2.9).

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

SPONSOR: Google, LLC IEEE Edison Medal For a career of meritorious achievement in electrical science, electrical engineering, or the electrical arts. SPONSOR: Dr. Mani Lal Bhaumik IEEE Mildred Dresselhaus Medal For outstanding technical contributions in science and engineering of great impact to IEEE fields of interest.

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Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 22, 2019

And do you think anyone at Leviton bothered to even Google me? When we bought our first electric car in January of 2013, the Toyota Rav4 EV with the Tesla battery and powertrain, we followed Toyota’s advice on the right home charger to buy. Leviton’s partnership with Toyota was over and no new number was offered.

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Plugs and Cars

AUGUST 18, 2007

Google Guys Th!nk The founders of Google have made personal investments in Tesla as befits dotcom billionaires, and they're converting Priuses to plug-in hybrids for the company fleet with battery maker A123. A number of websites ( webpronews.com , pandia.com ) are reporting that Google may be getting more involved with Th!nk

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 20, 2023

However, the menu arrangement of the Toyota infotainment can be a bit confusing. There are more settings accessed through the steering wheel than one might think, and even more settings and options buried in the Toyota "app" on the home screen. Worth reporting: Android Auto sometimes refused to connect to a phone (Google Pixel 6a).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2016

Tech Mafia—Google, Apple have invested billions of dollars in user experience. Furthermore, leading automotive companies such as Toyota, Ford, Honda, BMW etc., New technologies such as Autonomous, AI, Electric have reached application maturity.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 28, 2021

IEEE MILDRED DRESSELHAUS MEDAL Sponsor: Google ANANTHA CHANDRAKASAN MIT “For contributions to ultralow-power circuits and systems, and for leadership in academia and advancing diversity in the profession.” IEEE MEDAL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND SAFETY TECHNOLOGIES Sponsor: Toyota Motor Corp. IEEE EDISON MEDAL Sponsor: Samsung Electronics Co.

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