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Toyota (NYSE:TM), the world's top automaker and creator of the Prius and the Mirai fuel cell vehicle, is committed to building vehicles for the way people live through our Toyota, Lexus and Scion brands. Over the past 50 years, we've built more than 30 million cars and trucks in North America, where we operate 14 manufacturing plants and directly employ more than 44,000 people. Our 1,800 North American dealerships sold more than 2.8 million cars and trucks in 2015 - and about 80 percent of all Toyota vehicles sold over the past 20 years are still on the road today.
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2012
30 Oct 2012

Hard to Reach the First Million - Lessons from eCarTec Munich, 2012

Leading analysts IDTechEx provide this view of the recent eCarTec event in Munich Germany.
29 Oct 2012

Hard to reach the first million - lessons from eCarTec Munich, 2012

Leading analysts IDTechEx provide this view of the recent eCarTec event in Munich Germany.
24 Oct 2012

Kandi contract for first 5,000 EVs to China Aviation Lithium Battery

Kandi of China has an order for open rental city cars in Hangzhou China that are pure electric. The commitment seems to be for 20,000, the same size as the Bollore order for its pure electric Bluecars for open hire in Paris.
23 Oct 2012

Caterpillar unveils first hybrid excavator

Caterpillar unveiled the first model in its new line of hybrid excavators, the Cat® 336E H, at its Mossville Industrial Design Center last week.
17 Oct 2012

A123 Systems agrees to sell automotive business to Johnson Controls

A123 Systems has entered into an asset purchase agreement with Johnson Controls valued at $125 million.
11 Oct 2012

Car manufacturers sign MoU for fuel cell vehicles in Nordic countries

Car manufacturers Toyota, Nissan, Honda and Hyundai signed a Memorandum of understanding (MoU) with organisations from the Nordic Countries on market introduction of fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV) and hydrogen refuelling infrastructure during the period 2014-2017.
4 Oct 2012

UQM technologies announces strategic alliance in China

UQM Technologies has signed a memorandum of understanding with a major Chinese company for the development and marketing of their electric propulsion systems for New Energy Vehicles in China.
3 Oct 2012

Supercapacitors hailed as potential answer to greener public transport

In China, supercapacitor technology has been embraced so fervently over just the past four years that tens of thousands of supercap buses are now on the roads.
26 Sep 2012

Panasonic to supply lithium-ion batteries for Toyota's eQ EV

Panasonic Corporation said it will supply lithium-ion batteries for Toyota Motor Corporation's eQ electric car.
10 Aug 2012

Big disagreement on where lithium-ion batteries are headed

Lithium-ion is the winning type of rechargeable battery for the decade - there is almost a consensus. You can count about 150 manufacturers of these and IDTechEx has profiled nearly all of them.
25 Jul 2012

The long, winding road to advanced batteries for electric cars

Batteries have come a long way since Alessandro Volta first discovered in 1800 that two unlike metals, when separated by an acidic solution, could produce an electric current. In their evolution, batteries have taken on various forms, ranging from lead-acid, to nickel-metal hydride, to current-day lithium-ion.
9 Jul 2012

A123 goes niche too late?

Following a redundancy, rehiring and large quality recall, struggling lithium-ion traction battery maker A123 Systems is trying some niche marketing now that most of the orders for the world's hybrid and pure electric car batteries over the next three years have been cornered by the big four - LGChem, Panasonic inc Sanyo, AESC and SBLimotive as analysed in detail by the Institute of Information Technology of Japan.
2 Jul 2012

BMW and Toyota agree to further strengthen collaboration

Toyota and BMW signed a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at long-term strategic collaboration in four fields: joint development of a fuel cell system, joint development of architecture and components for a future sports vehicle, collaboration on powertrain electrification and joint research and development on lightweight technologies.
25 Jun 2012

Energy harvesting wins at Le Mans

This year at the 80th running of the Le Mans sports car endurance race held in France, both Audi and Toyota made use of new technology with kinetic energy recovery systems.
11 Jun 2012

Toyota Motorsport brings electric technology to Pikes Peak

Toyota Motorsport GmbH (TMG) will demonstrate its high-performance electric powertrain technology on one of North America's most demanding motorsport events; the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in Colorado on 8 July.
15 May 2012

Waste energy scavenging in vehicles

Wattshock recently exhibited their regenerative suspension retrofit shock. This component generates electricity from previously wasted kinetic energy in vehicles.
2 Apr 2012

Electric Vehicles become less poisonous

Most green technologies are not so green on closer examination.
30 Mar 2012

Frito-Lay & Electric Vehicles International Launch EV Pilot

EVI's signature all-electric powertrain is seamlessly integrated into an industry standard Daimler Freightliner M2 business class chassis providing customers with significant fuel and maintenance savings.
29 Mar 2012

The Washington/Oregon Corridor

The project's goal? To advance electric transportation and alternative fuel vehicles by outfitting the I-5 corridor with charging stations all the way from "BC to Baja."
28 Mar 2012

Fuel Cell Vehicle by Toyota

Toyota Motor Europe NVSA, Belgium