Enlarge / Toyota’s current lineup of electrified vehicles will be joined by a battery electric crossover in 2022. (credit: Toyota) In 2025, Toyota will open a new North American battery manufacturing plant as part of the automaker’s electrification strategy. The company made the announcement on Monday morning, stating that it will spend $3.4 billion (¥ […]
Enlarge / Toyota’s first modern battery EV will be the bZ4x, due in 2022. (credit: Toyota) Toyota was an early pioneer in hybrid electric vehicles, and it has sold more than 18 million hybrids since the introduction of the first Prius in 1997. But it’s fair to say that the world’s largest automaker has been […]
Enlarge / This sketch is all we’ve seen of Porsche’s forthcoming LMDh hybrid racer. But now we know that when it starts racing in 2023, it will be run by Team Penske. (credit: Porsche) In 2021, there is a real buzz building in the world of sports car racing. After many years of running incompatible […]
Toyota introduced the particular Prius Prime in 2016, years after other manufacturers released electric-only models. (credit: Jonathan Gitlin ) Executives at Toyota had a moment of inspiration when typically the company first developed the Prius. That moment, apparently, has long since passed. The Prius was the world’s first mass-produced hybrid car, years ahead of any […]
When Akio Toyoda, the president of Toyota Motor Corporation, wanted to demonstrate to Japanese customers that hydrogen power is safe, he decided to convert a Corolla to use H2 in an internal combustion engine and then entered the car in an endurance racing series. He was even one of the drivers. [credit: Toyota ] In […]
On May 5, NASCAR unveiled its seventh-generation race car at its tech center in Charlotte, North Carolina. [credit: Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images ] Big changes are coming to NASCAR. On Wednesday afternoon, the sport formally unveiled its new race car, called the Next Gen. It makes its racing debut in 2022, and it’s a radical […]
Enlarge / From May 21 to 23, Toyota will enter the Super Taikyu Series with a hydrogen-powered Corolla race car. (credit: Toyota) For some, the allure of hydrogen-powered vehicles is hard to resist. Proponents point first to long recharging times for lithium-ion batteries and then to the speed with which pressurized hydrogen can be pumped […]
Enlarge (credit: jetcityimage / Getty) Lyft has sold its self-driving division to a Toyota subsidiary called Woven Planet for $550 million—the latest sign that it takes deep pockets to compete in the self-driving arena. Lyft’s main competitor, Uber, sold its own self-driving unit to the well-financed startup Aurora back in December. Lyft announced its self-driving […]
We can’t even begin to imagine what it must be like for a family to go through something like this. Just absolutely beyond heartbreaking… A 2-year-old girl in Houston, Texas is dead after she was ejected from a car during a multi-vehicle crash that occurred after a truck allegedly ran a red light. Related: Former […]
Enlarge (credit: Aurora) Autonomous driving startup Aurora announced on Tuesday that it has scored a partnership with Toyota to build self-driving taxis based on the Toyota Sienna minivan. Aurora says it’s aiming to have a fleet of Sienna prototypes ready for testing on public roads by the end of the year. Denso, a major Japanese auto […]