Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2017

Toyota Motor is making a $1.33-billion billion investment in Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc. TMMK); the plant will be Toyota’s first in North America to begin producing vehicles using Toyota New Global Architecture (TNGA). Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 19, 2023

Tesla has gotten two new adoptees of the North American Charging Standard (NACS) in Toyota and Lexus, the companies announced on Thursday. Several large automakers have already adopted Tesla’s NACS connector, including Ford , General Motors , Honda, BMW, and Rivian, among others.

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MAY 31, 2023

Toyota is taking the leap and investing more in the United States. Toyota’s electric SUV will be assembled in the United States, qualifying for the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) electric vehicle (EV) tax incentives. Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc (TMMK) will produce the all-electric, three-row SUV starting in 2025.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2020

With the refresh for 2021 Camry models, Toyota is introducing the first XSE Hybrid grade, combining the Camry’s most fuel-efficient powertrain with its highest expression of the sport and luxury blend. liter V-6; and next-generation Toyota Hybrid System (THS II). Toyota Hybrid System. 2021 Camry XSE Hybrid. The Dynamic Force 2.5-liter

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AUGUST 1, 2023

Just like the bZ5X, it’s anticipated to obtain its batteries from the plant that Toyota has underneath development in Sovereignty, N.C., With the ones smaller crossovers, Toyota led on production occasion Subaru contributed its off-road prowess. A spokesman for Toyota Motor North The united states additionally declined to remark.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The United Automotive Workers (UAW) have come to a tentative local agreement at a Ford factory in Kentucky, after the union threatened to put the site’s almost 9,000 workers on strike last week if a deal wasn’t reached. facilities that aren’t unionized, including Tesla , Toyota, Volkswagen , Hyundai and others, still.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2012

Toyota will increase annual engine assembly capacity of 4-cylinder engines by more than 100,000 at its plant in Georgetown, Ky. This investment will increase engine production at the Kentucky plant to more than 500,000 annually and will increase total engine production in the United States to more than 1.2 million per year.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Toyota is expanding the production of its hybrid powertrains to the US. Toyota will invest $373.8 million in five US manufacturing plants to support production of its first US-made hybrid powertrain and to implement Toyota’s New Global Architecture (TNGA) at its Alabama plant. Cutaway of Toyota hybrid transaxle.

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Baua Electric

MAY 1, 2024

Photo: Toyota Motor North America Toyota today announced that it’s turning its R&D office in Los Angeles into its new North American hydrogen headquarters. It hosts Toyota’s largest dynamometer (1.2 Toyota is building a microgrid at H2HQ that will allow it to operate off-grid. Read more: Toyota to invest $1.3B

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Baua Electric

MAY 20, 2024

To keep up with surging BYD, Tesla, and other EV makers, Toyota is launching a new all-electric crossover. The Toyota bZ3C looks like the new Prius, but the electric SUV crossover won’t be available in the US. Toyota to launch bZ3C in China as new BYD rival “What kind of BEV would bring smiles to the faces of our Chinese Customers?”

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 19, 2021

It seems like legacy automakers, including Toyota, Stellantis, Ford, and General Motors, are starting to embrace the EV transition. Detroit’s Big 3 and Toyota all announced investments in battery plants these last few weeks. Toyota’s US Battery Plant. On Monday, Toyota announced plans to invest $3.4

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2014

Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky, with help from Waste Services of the Bluegrass , is converting methane from a local landfill into renewable electricity to power Toyota’s Georgetown assembly plant. Landfill gas is comprised of both methane and carbon dioxide, in addition to varying amounts of other contaminants.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Toyota Motor Corp President Akio Toyoda recently shared a subtle dig at self-driving cars during a meeting with the company’s dealers. The Toyota executive argued that the electric vehicle transition would take longer than expected. This may be one of the reasons why Toyota only expects to sell 3.5 billion to $3.8

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2023

Toyota was earlier granted a Zero Emission Powertrain (ZEP) Executive Order (A-014-1170) from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) for its new heavy-duty fuel cell electric powertrain kit. Toyota’s efforts with hydrogen-powered heavy-duty truck powertrains started with Project Portal back in 2017. Earlier post.)

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Baua Electric

JUNE 8, 2023

Closing era, Ford CEO Jim Farley stated he sees China, no longer GM or Toyota, as its primary rival within the EV sector. Toyota stated it invested greater than $8 billion in U.S. Toyota stated it invested greater than $8 billion in U.S. Toyota and its Lexus emblem deal 22 electrified automobile choices within the U.S.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 30, 2023

She’s going to report back to Takefumi Shiga, Toyota Motor North The usa’s govt vice chairman of engineering and production. Toyota promoted Kerry Creech, vice chairman of producing at Georgetown Meeting, to prevail Elkington as president of the plant.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2017

The US International Trade Commission (USITC) is instituting an investigation of certain thermoplastic encapsulated electric motors, their components, and products and vehicles containing them. This includes motors (e.g., of Southfield, MI; Honda Motor Co., of Torrance, CA; American Honda Motor Co., of Princeton, IN; and.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2012

Toyota will invest approximately $80 million its Huntsville, Ala. The expansion will allow Toyota Motor Manufacturing Alabama, Inc. TMMAL currently assembles 4-cylinder, V6 and V8 engines for eight of 12 Toyota North American built vehicles. Toyota also builds engines in Kentucky and West Virginia.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2018

Toyota unveiled the new fifth-generation Avalon at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Avalon received an all-encompassing makeover by Toyota’s US-based design, engineering, and manufacturing entities at Calty Design Research Inc. TMMK) in Georgetown, Kentucky, respectively. liter V6 (2GR-FKS), and, a 2.5-liter

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Baua Electric

APRIL 27, 2024

Toyota confirmed a second 3-row U.S.-made That complements the other Toyota 3-row electric SUV set to be made in Kentucky in 2025. based company that now owns Protean in-wheel motors has showcased a Land Rover Defender EV conversion that doesn’t gain weight in the translation.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2015

Toyota is embarking on a multi-year plan to realign its manufacturing operations in North America in support of the Toyota New Global Architecture (TNGA) ( earlier post ), a comprehensive approach to achieving sustainable growth by making ever-better vehicles more efficiently. TMMK) and Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Indiana, Inc.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The news comes as the UAW has continued to try organizing at facilities owned by Volkswagen , Toyota, Tesla and many others that have non-unionized U.S. He also called workers at companies like Tesla, Toyota and Honda “UAW members of the future.” manufacturing plants. facilities.

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The XSE trim is new to the 2021 Toyota Camry Hybrid, offering sporty styling cues that reinforce the value and appeal of this highly efficient five-passenger sedan. The 2021 Toyota Camry Hybrid XSE is powered by Toyota’s Hybrid Synergy Drive system of a gasoline-powered 2.5-liter A sleeker, more slippery Camry Hybrid.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2009

Toyota will add capacity at its engine plant in Huntsville, Ala. The expansion will allow Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Alabama (TMMAL) to produce 216,000 four-cylinder engines annually, targeted for the Camry and RAV4. Jim Wiseman, vice president of Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2012

Toyota will introduce both gasoline and hybrid powertrain versions of the North American designed and engineered 2013 Avalon. Toyota anticipates the hybrid model will achieve an EPA-rating of 40 mpg US (5.88 volt NiMH battery pack, and a pair of electric motor/generators within the transaxle. Avalon Hybrid. Click to enlarge.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 24, 2022

However you break it down, the Fremont Factory’s manufacturing prowess showed its domination in 2021, as it was the most productive automotive factory in the United States in 2021, outpacing Toyota, BMW, and Ford factories that have long created the most robust figures of car production in previous decades.

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Baua Electric

MAY 6, 2023

TO THE EDITOR: The longer one has labored within the car trade, the extra “Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant road-tests a new quality strategy” (autonews.com, Would possibly 1) turns out just like the film Groundhog Date. Why does it appear as despite the fact that Ford Motor Co.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2009

Earlier this year, ZAP Motor Manufacturing Kentucky (ZMMK), based in Franklin, Kentucky, applied to the Department of Energy for a $160 million loan application. ZMMK President Gary Dodd expects to build the vehicles in Kentucky pending funding from the DOE. ZAP CEO Steve Schneider.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 8, 2024

Across Hyundai Motor Group, the company now projects that by 2035 it will use 3 million metric tons annually. At present, the Toyota Mirai and Hyundai Nexo are the only two publicly available fuel-cell passenger vehicles for the U.S., while the BMW iX5 is currently being fleet-tested. Don’t write off cars and SUVs altogether.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 12, 2023

The crowd lists home, import and comfort manufacturers on its website online, with a couple of Toyota, Lexus and Honda places. Lithia first entered Virginia with the acquisition of Sterling Motorized vehicles in Sterling in 2020. acquisition since December, when it entered Kentucky with the acquisition of a Stellantis dealership.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2014

Toyota is establishing a new headquarters in North Dallas (Plano), Texas for its North American operations. Within the next three years, Toyota’s three separate North American headquarters for manufacturing (Erlanger, KY); sales and marketing (Torrance, CA); and corporate operations (New York, NY) will relocate to a single campus in Plano.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2015

The new hub will also unite these manufacturers with research universities, such as the University of Tennessee with its pioneering 3D printed carbon fiber research, and the University of Kentucky with the largest US open-access carbon-fiber chemistry laboratory. Adherent Technologies, Inc.; Honda R&D Americas, Inc.; TPI Composites, Inc.;

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Teslarati

MARCH 18, 2024

plant at which workers have filed to hold an election, after the UAW successfully garnered record pay increases in a historic six-week strike against Ford, General Motors (GM) and Dodge-Chrysler owner Stellantis last year. This also marks the first non-union U.S. companies potentially moving manufacturing outside the country in response.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Workers represented by the United Auto Workers (UAW) union at Ford, General Motors (GM), and Stellantis have voted to ratify the recently proposed contracts following a historic six-week strike that began when the previous contracts expired. Ford has estimated that the new contract will increase labor costs by around $850 to $900 per vehicle.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 31, 2023

On Wednesday, Toyota Motor Corp. made all-electric vehicle will be assembled in Kentucky starting in 2025. The Georgetown facility is the automaker’s largest in the world and will be incorporating a three-row EV into its production lines once Toyota’s battery plant in North Carolina is completed. “We

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Teslarati

JUNE 24, 2022

” Ford, GM, Stellantis, Toyota push for Congress to eliminate EV tax credit limits. Ford confirmed to CarsDirect that its communication was legitimate. “The purchase of the BEV Lease is to aid in our goal of delivering carbon neutrality by 2050 by controlling the vehicle battery through its life, keeping it in the Ford network.”

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Baua Electric

JULY 11, 2023

The ramp up, albeit at petite volumes, is a part of Toyota’s push to jump-start the worldwide marketplace for gasoline mobile era by means of feeding call for for business vehicles. The programs that might be made in Kentucky are according to the similar era worn within the Mirai gasoline mobile sedan. of the overall.

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