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Toyota will replace burnt Tundra as a thank you to brave nurse
Toyota USA is buying brave nurse who risked his life to save others, a new Toyota Tundra to replace the one that got burnt on her drive back towards danger.
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All-New 2020 Toyota Corolla Ready to Rock the Sedan World
With more than 46 million Toyota Corollas sold globally since its introduction in 1966, it would be difficult to find a driver who did not recognize the name. Everyone, it seems, has a Corolla story. Many, though are going to be doing double takes when they see the re-imagined and reconfigured 2020 Toyota Corolla sedan. And that’s exactly the point.
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World’s Oldest Toyota Found in Russian Barn
Toyota is an automaker with a rich history dating back to the 1930s. But, until recently, very little was known about the earliest Toyota models, which had likely been melted down and repurposed as planes, guns, or piston rings during World War II. In fact, following the war, even the plans for Toyota’s first-ever vehicles were lost; that was, until a 1936 Toyoda Model AA was found in a barn in Russia. The Toyoda Model AA was built between 1936 and 1942, and only 1,404 units were produced. But, after the war, all knowledge of this early model was lost.
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Toyota Corolla GR To Take On The Hot Hatch Establishment
Toyota is preparing to jump head-first into the ever-competitive hot hatch market with a juiced-up variant of the Corolla hatchback. Australia’s Car Sales reports that Tetsuya Tada, the man behind the Toyota 86 and new Supra, is leading the push within the automaker’s Gazoo Racing performance sub-brand to launch a fleet of vehicles.
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Toyota is developing fighter jet-inspired safety features for cars and wants to share it
Toyota Research Institute had a breakthrough last year in its pursuit to make driving safer. It was so profound that Toyota wants to open up to other automakers. The inspiration was modern-day fighter jets, which use a low-level flight control system to translate the intent of the pilot and keep the aircraft stable and tucked neatly inside a specific safety envelope. TRI calls it blended envelope control, an approach that lets its “Guardian” driver assist system combine and coordinate the skills of the human driver and the vehicle they’re driving.
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Toyota to allow free access to 24,000 hybrid and electric vehicle tech patents to boost market
Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday it will allow royalty-free access to its nearly 24,000 patents for hybrid and other vehicles using electrification technology in a bid to expand competition in the market as the industry adopts stricter emissions regulations. Rather than shutting rivals out, Toyota hopes that making its motor and battery technology accessible to other companies will broaden the market, in particular for hybrids, a field the auto giant leads with its Prius vehicles.
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Toyota leads $1B investment in Uber’s self-driving tech
On Thursday, news broke that Toyota, Denso, and the SoftBank Vision Fund are investing heavily in Uber's autonomous driving operation. Together, the three companies will put $1 billion into Uber's Advanced Technologies Group: $667 million from Toyota and Denso, with an additional $333 million coming from SoftBank.
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Toyota really believes hydrogen fuel cells are the future: Here’s why
The fuel cell is the future, Toyota believes, and the Mirai is its flagship. We at Autoweek are in the middle of a year-long loan of a long-term first-gen Mirai test car, so in that sense we are driving the future, or at least what Toyota believes the future will be. With a newly styled and possibly even fun-to-drive Mirai coming next year, talk of fuel-celled buses and semis on the horizon, and with no signs of Toyota letting up on the fuel cell throttle, we sat down for a few drinks with chief engineer Yoshikazu Tanaka to get details about Toyota’s fuel-cell philosophy.
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Toyota will transform a 175-acre site in Japan into a "prototype city of the future"
Toyota is calling the site "Woven City."
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Replacing A Dead Prius Hybrid Battery Doesn't Have To Cost Thousands Of Dollars
I love the Toyota Prius. I bought my Prius brand new from a dealership in Waterford, MI in the fall of 2005. It is the only car I have ever kept until the loan was paid off, and even then I was in no hurry to sell or replace it. Then the hybrid battery died.
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Toyota Says It Has A Possible Fix For When Drivers Mistakenly Hit The Gas Instead Of The Brake
Toyota Motor Corp unveiled an emergency safety system on Monday that uses big data to ignore the accelerator if it determines the driver steps on the pedal unintentionally.
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Toyota warns of 64% drop in full-year net profit
Toyota on Thursday warned of a 64 percent drop in full-year net profit and reported a slump in quarterly earnings, as the coronavirus pandemic shreds the global auto market. Japan’s top car maker, which had previously declined to give a bottom-line forecast because of ongoing uncertainty, now projects a net profit of ¥730 billion ($6.9 billion) for the fiscal year ending next March, down from ¥2.07 trillion the previous year.
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Toyota unveils new fuel cell car in fresh push on hydrogen technology
Japan’s Toyota Motor Corp put its revamped Mirai hydrogen fuel cell car, with 30% greater range, on sale on Wednesday in a fresh push to promote the zero-emission technology amid rapidly growing demand for electric vehicles, including its own.
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Toyota will debut its first mass-market EVs in the US this year
Toyota will finally introduce its first mass-market all-electric vehicles in the United States later this year, the world’s leading automaker announced Wednesday, though it offered no further details about vehicle type or pricing.
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Toyota snaps up Lyft's self-driving cars unit for $550 million
Toyota is hitting the gas to achieve its self-driving goals by buying Lyft's autonomous vehicle business for over half a billion dollars. The two players announced the $550 million acquisition on Tuesday, saying that it would allow them to create a "dream team" of about 1,200 researchers and engineers around the world.
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Toyota is quietly pushing Congress to slow the shift to electric vehicles
The US is slowing moving toward adopting policies that would put more electric vehicles on the road, but for Toyota, it’s not slow enough. The Japanese automaker, which is the largest car company in the world, has been quietly lobbying policymakers in Washington, DC to resist the urge to transition to an all-electric future — partly because Toyota is lagging behind the rest of industry in making that transition itself.
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Toyota Actively Lobbying To Slow Down EV Revolution
Toyota seems to be doing everything possible to become known as one of the most despicable corporations on the face of the Earth. Last month it was revealed that it was the largest corporate contributor to members of Congress who voted against certifying the result of the last election.
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Toyota Whiffed on EVs. Now It’s Trying to Slow Their Rise
In a bid to protect its investments in hybrids and hydrogen fuel cells, the carmaker is lobbying against the transition to electric vehicles.
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Toyota Lets Farmers Pay for New Trucks With Corn or Soybeans in Brazil
It's no secret that cars are expensive, especially now. If you're a farmer in a poorer country, it may be tough to come up with the cash you need for a new vehicle. Toyota, as it turns out, has an answer to that. No cash? No problem. Just bring your crops.
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Toyota halts use of self-driving vehicle at Paralympic village after collision with visually impaired athlete | CBC Sports
Toyota has suspended use of all of its self-driving e-Palette transportation pods at the Tokyo Paralympic Games village. That announcement coming on Friday, a day after one of the vehicles collided with a visually impaired athlete.
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