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Eco Factor: Hybrid vehicle powered by lithium polymer batteries.
Electricity alone cannot provide the speed and distance we require sustaining our lives in future. Hybrids can take over conventional fossil fuel vehicles without making us too slow...
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Toyota Motor Corp. said Friday that for now it is sticking with plans to open its new Mississippi plant in 2010 despite media reports that Japan’s top automaker...
made popular Nov 14 2008
Prius has of course, been a phenomenal success and has led the charge of the hybrids from the front. Toyota could now be thinking of giving the Prius, more appealing...
made popular Nov 11 2008
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Asian stock markets turned in a mixed performance Friday, but most recoiled from their lows despite a grim profit forecast from Toyota and sluggish U.S. economic data....
made popular Nov 7 2008
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HONG KONG _ Asian markets were mixed Friday with Japan’s key stock index down 1.6 percent as grim profit forecasts from Toyota and other companies, combined with...
made popular Nov 7 2008
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Toyota slashed its earnings forecast for the full year Thursday to less than a third of what it was the previous year, the latest sign that the global slowdown and...
made popular Nov 6 2008
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Toyota says its second quarter profit shrank to about a third of what it was the previous year as a drastic slowdown in auto sales and surging yen hammered earnings at...
made popular Nov 6 2008
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Any car shoppers left in this brutal market are sure to cheer Toyota’s decision to extend zero-percent financing for another month. But another decision may have...
made popular Nov 5 2008
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Toyota Motor Corp., Japan’s top automaker, reports earnings for the fiscal second quarter on Thursday. The following is a summary of key developments and analyst...
made popular Nov 4 2008
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Ford’s U.S. auto sales plummeted 30 percent and Toyota’s dropped 23 percent in October as low consumer confidence and tight credit combined to scare...
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General Motors Corp. said Wednesday that reduced demand in the U.S. and Western Europe helped push the company’s third-quarter worldwide sales down 11 percent, as...
made popular Oct 29 2008
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General Motors says its third-quarter worldwide sales fell 11 percent on weak U.S. demand, falling short of Toyota’s total for the period.
made popular Oct 29 2008
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Toyota Motor Corp. said Monday its global sales in the July-September quarter fell for the first time in seven years due to faltering demand in the U.S.
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Toyota Motor Corp. will post its first decline in annual global sales in a decade this year, hit by slowing demand worldwide amid the financial crisis, a Japanese...
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AP, Chiba
Toyota says it’s out to prove a tiny car can be top-notch with its new iQ “ultra-compact” that’s just a bit smaller than 3 meters (10 feet) but...
made popular Oct 15 2008
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Shares of Toyota Motor Corp. plunged Wednesday following a major business daily report that Toyota’s operating profit would fall 40 percent this fiscal year...
made popular Oct 8 2008
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Todd Bodine figured on the last lap he’d simply push Kyle Busch to the finish line, one Toyota driver helping another. That little nudge, though, was enough to...
made popular Oct 4 2008
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Toyota Motor Corp. has announced zero-percent financing on 11 models as it tries to woo would-be buyers sidelined by the consumer credit crunch.
made popular Oct 3 2008
Eco Factor: Toyota installs the largest solar roof in North America that is sufficient to meet 60 percent of the energy needs for its manufacturing plant.
Toyota has...
made popular Sep 25 2008
The Beast: The Kami Speed Yaris is a high-end piece of gadget for rich guys from the Philippines and elsewhere in Asia. With a unique build, it has C-ONE aero gear, and...
made popular Sep 15 2008
Enough of the gas-guzzling vehicles around! This time Indian roads are all set to grab the Hybrid vehicles since both Honda Siel Cars India and Mahindra and Mahindra...
made popular Sep 15 2008
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Remember Honda Insight? I loved that car for its drop dead stunning look. The original 3-door model has a hybrid electric engine technology, optimized...
made popular Oct 3 2008
BMW has joined the hybrid bandwagon with the introduction of a 7 Series hybrid concept car which will debut in the next month’s Paris motor show. It blends the luxury...
made popular Sep 23 2008
This one has been in the rumor mill for long and has finally made its way out of the mill, with a badge saying ‘its true’. Prius is on its way to become a...
made popular Sep 14 2008
It is largely believed that hybrids cannot stand up to the same footing as gasoline driven cars, atleast not in the near future. Here’s a myth buster, called...
made popular Sep 14 2008
Toyota’s plans to run a Prius on Lithium-ion batteries have hit a roadblock. Launch of the new Toyota Prius that was to run on Lithium-ion batteries has been...
made popular Sep 13 2008
SUVs are mostly referred to as gas-guzzlers; the Porsche Cayenne is no exception. Porsche AG, however aims to change things a bit with the introduction of the Cayenne...
made popular Sep 13 2008
The world’s first gas-electric SUV limo created by Limelite CoachWorks is a byproduct of a Chevrolet Tahoe hybrid, 13 feet of steel, several flat-screen TVs and two...
made popular Sep 9 2008
Fiat appears to be readying itself for the launch of electric powered vehicles in established markets. The company has joined hands with two Brazilian utilities, Cemig...
made popular Sep 8 2008
The world of hybrid cars just can’t have enough of the Prius. Here’s another first for this car. The Prius is now certified to Japanese 2015 fuel economy...
made popular Sep 7 2008
After a huge push for green measures during the Olympics, it seems Japan is taking notes from China, as Japan’s Ministry of Environment is switching to...
made popular Sep 2 2008
The future is truly in finding green solution for existing problems and that is probably the most true in case of the automobile industry which is galloping towards a...
made popular Aug 9 2008
Do you wish to convert your Hybrid in to a plug-in model and charge it up every time you need some by just plugging it in? Then you may have to both wait for it and...
made popular Apr 29 2008
Toyota have taken inspiration from their sleek Prius hybrid and the Rugged NATO trucks to make this stylish, rugged concept called the A-BAT.
The A-BAT combines a...
made popular Apr 2 2008
With the auto industry increasingly going the ‘green’ way to make more green, it is almost inevitable that hybrid cars are here to stay and take over our roads....
made popular Feb 22 2008
Hybrids – cars that run on two or more engine technologies, but are they as simple to define? I guess no, a Swiss company known as Mindset is trying to improve what...
made popular Feb 19 2008
Take one part supercapacitor, one part lead acid battery and you’ve got an energy cell dubbed the UltraBattery with a life cycle increase of 4x and power increase...
made popular Jan 18 2008
The world is moving forward on a green path and the automobile industry is following that path by revamping its designs to satisfy the growing demands of the eco...
made popular Dec 21 2007
If the display of cars in the LA auto show is anything to go by, then automakers are surely serious about showing their environmentally friendly side (though the...
made popular Nov 20 2007
We earlier told you about the green initiatives Volvo is taking by introducing ‘Green Trucks’. The company is back again and this time, they want their cars...
made popular Oct 5 2007
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