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May 17, 2012 Leave a comment
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Happy Hr Community Employment is one of the finalists in Toyota’s 100 Cars for Good.
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May 15, 2012 Leave a comment
May 8, 2012 Leave a comment
Toyota unveils electric SUV – May. 7, 2012.
Toyota unveiled its new electric Rav4 crossover SUV at an event in Los Angeles Monday but said it will be available only in four California cities for the time being.
Toyota plans to sell only 2,600 of them over the next three years, the automaker said.
They will cost $49,800 each, Toyota said, but will be richly equipped with features like heated seats and an eight inch touch-sensitive computer screen. The price does not factor in a $7,500 federal tax credit for purchasing a plug-in vehicle. It also doesn’t include a $2,500 state tax credit.
The Rav4 EV will have a driving range of approximately 100 miles, Toyota said, with an expected 6 hour charge time on a 240 volt charger.
“It’s designed for consumers who prioritize the environment and appreciate performance. We look forward to seeing how the market responds,” said Bob Carter, group vice president and general manager of Toyota Motors Sales U.S.A.’s Toyota division.
The most expensive gasoline-powered Toyota Rav4 has a base price of less than $29,000. Toyota sold over 15,000 gasoline-powered Rav4 SUVs last month, or almost six times the number of Rav4 EVs it plans to sell over the next three years.
The Rav4 EV will help Toyota meet electric vehicle requirements in the state of California. Automakers have to sell a certain number of “zero emission” vehicles in order to be allowed to continue selling vehicles in the state.
The vehicles will be built by Toyota but the batteries and electric drive systems will be supplied by the California-based electric car maker Tesla Motors
Toyota’s plans for the Rav4 EV were revealed in the summer of 2010, shortly after it was announced that Toyota would invest $50 million in Tesla Motors and that Tesla would build its next vehicles in a former Toyota factory in California.
The front-wheel-drive Rav4 EV will have two different drive modes. In its normal mode, the SUV will go from zero to 60 miles per hour in as little as 8.6 seconds and will have a top speed of 85 miles per hour, according to Toyota. In “Sport” mode it will be able to get to 60 mph in 7 seconds and will have a top speed of 100 mph.
Toyota has long been cautious in its approach to purely electric vehicles in the belief that the market for such vehicles is limited because of their high cost and limited driving ranges. The Japanese automaker has been much more aggressive in pursuing gasoline-electric hybrid technology.
Toyota recently began selling a new Prius plug-in car but that vehicle can travel only about 11 miles before it begins burning gasoline. Toyota also plans to market a purely electric car called the Scion iQ EV which will have a range of less than 50 miles. That car won’t be sold directly to the public, however, but will be used in car-sharing programs in big cities.
Toyota joins a growing list of automakers selling at least some plug-in vehicles.
April 20, 2012 Leave a comment
Toyota College Grad Video Contest
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April 12, 2012 Leave a comment
A pair of Toyota 86 coupes will compete in the 24 Hours of Nürburgring endurance race.The 24 Hours Nürburgring is a touring car and GT endurance racing event on the Nürburgring Nordschleife (north loop). With a lap length of over 25 km (15.5 mi), it allows the participation of more than 200 cars, and over 700 drivers.
March 12, 2012 Leave a comment
Toyota is conducting its 100 Cars For Good program again this year, giving away 100 vehicles to nonprofit groups in need of support vehicles. Winners will be selected through public voting on Facebook. Application materials and complete program info are available at http://www.100carsforgood.com.
“At Toyota, we appreciate what a big difference a new car or truck can make for organizations that are doing so much to improve lives and strengthen communities across America,” said Jim Lentz, newly appointed president and chief operating officer of Toyota Motor Sales. “Over the past 20 years, Toyota has contributed more than half a billion dollars to nonprofits throughout the U.S. 100 Cars for Good allows us to build on that commitment in new ways, putting the public in the ‘driver’s seat’ as we work to help community organizations broaden their impact in neighborhoods nationwide.”
Applications will be accepted for two weeks or until the website reaches its 5,000-form limit. A panel of experts will select the finalists, who will be notified in April. Finalists will then submit a short video explaining how a new vehicle would help further their work; all will be featured on the program’s website.
Voting for the finalists will begin May 14 at www.100carsforgood.com with five organizations up for consideration each day for 100 straight days. The four runners-up each day will each get a $1,000 grant from Toyota.
Finalists will be eligible for one of six Toyota models: Camry Hybrid, Highlander, Prius v, Sienna, Sienna Mobility or Tundra. Our guess is that many groups will apply for the Tundra, as it’s most likely capable of being the strongest worker for their hard-working needs.
For more information and to view Toyota’s video, click here.
March 11, 2012 Leave a comment
Toyota is serious about its commitment to the future of green mobility, and to prove it the concepts and production hybrids were out in force at Geneva
February 29, 2012 Leave a comment
Toyota models snared “top pick” designations in five of 10 vehicle categories in the Consumer Reports annual auto issue, on sale March 6.
CR’s criteria for naming top picks include ranking at or near the top of their category on overall road test scores, average or better predicted-reliability ratings in CR’s subscriber survey and high performance in government or crash tests. Here are Toyota’s top models in 10 vehicle categories:
FAMILY SEDAN: Toyota Camry Hybrid
SMALL SUV: Toyota RAV4
FAMILY HAULER: Toyota Sienna V6
GREEN CAR: Toyota Prius
FAMILY SUV: Toyota Highlander
Details on Consumer Reports’ Top Picks for 2012, Automaker Report Cards, Best and Worst list and other key findings are available in the April issue of Consumer Reports on newsstands March 6 or at the magazine’s website.
Consumer Reports says its tests include more than 50 individual tests on every vehicle, including evaluations of braking, handling, comfort, convenience, safety and fuel economy.
Roughly 6,000 miles of general driving and evaluations are racked up on each test car during the testing process. CR buys all its test cars anonymously from dealers.
February 26, 2012 Leave a comment
About an hour before the final practice for the Daytona 500, there was one car circling the track.
It was camouflaged with a zebra-striped paint scheme, but there were plenty of people who knew exactly what it was doing out there. Toyota secretly unveiled its 2013 Camry at Daytona International Speedway on Saturday, showing off a two-seat prototype for company president Akio Toyoda.
Toyota President Akio Toyoda
Toyoda and NASCAR driver Kyle Busch each turned 10 laps on the high-banked speedway in the new car.
“Although we didn’t show it today, the styling we want to really look like Camry, and I really hope that the fans of NASCAR would love it,” Toyoda said afterward.
Toyoda traveled from Japan to get a firsthand look at the company’s newest racing car, which officially will be unveiled May 22 in Salisbury, N.C.
Toyoda also toured Daytona International Speedway, met with Toyota drivers Michael Waltrip, Mark Martin, Clint Bowyer and Martin Truex Jr., and sat down with a few media members. He raved about the history of Daytona and said it was an honor to turn laps at NASCAR’s most famous track.
He also was interested in learning more about American racing.
“As far as I am concerned this is the first time that I have come here and really seen it for myself,” he said through a translator. “However, I’ve been always interested in this great sort of a cultural event, the racing activity in the United States, which is really supported by many sponsors and fans.
“I was always interested in this. So this time I got to come here, and I haven’t really, you know, seen everything on the ground yet. But it’s like a part of a lifestyle, which is really supported and enjoyed by so many people, and I think it’s wonderful.”
February 23, 2012 Leave a comment
The FT-Bh styling will likely be fairly concept crazy, but don’t expect it to get too wacky. Toyota states that the FT-Bh “would be made using commonplace, economically viable production methods and technologies, including a down-sized full hybrid powertrain.” In English, that means that Toyota’s working on new ways to add lightness without adding too much to the bottom line. I’m guessing that instead of exotic materials such as carbon fiber, we’ll be seeing quite a bit of composite (read: plastic) construction to get the vehicle down to the estimated bantamweight. Depending on how Toyota executes, this could be a very good thing for those of us who think that lighter is better.
Check out the Toyota FT-Bh teaser video below.
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