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Monday, Jun 1
Toyota Camry Hybrid gets nip/tuck for ASEAN market intro
It may have taken a year to make it happen , but the locally-built Toyota Camry Hybrid is finally ready to go on sale in Thailand.
Monday, Jan 5
Toyota, Honda hybrid sales drop in 2008; 5 FCX Clarity models sold
Toyota reports that, for all of 2008, it sold 15,200 Lexus RX 400h luxury hybrid SUVs and 19,391 Highlander Hybrid gas-electric mid-size SUVs. For the year, Toyota and Lexus sold 241,405 hybrid vehicles. That includes 158,884 Priuses, compared to 181,221 in 2007. That 12.6 percent drop in h...
Sunday, Jan 4
Rendered Speculation: Honda to intro A-segment car, challenge, iQ, up!, smart
The smallest Honda we can currently get here in North America is the B-segment Fit. Back in Japan however, Honda has always offered smaller A-segment and the even smaller 660cc Kei-class cars. These have not been available outside of Japan but that could soon change. Honda will apparently b...
Friday, Jan 2
Michigan engineering professor installs HyMotion PHEV kit in his Prius
Dr. John Patten of Western Michigan University recently installed one of HyMotion's L5 plug-in conversion kits in his Toyota Prius as part of his work in educating people on alternative energy. The HyMotion kit is the first commercially available system that allows Priuses to become plu...
Thursday, Jan 1
Toyota: if you need them, Prius replacement batteries are "no big deal"
As the first batch of Priuses sold in the United States reach their get ready to turn eight in 2009, the battery replacement issue is going to pop up more and more. We noted back in September that Toyota had dropped the price of a new pack a few hundred dollars to $2,299 for model years 2001-2003...
Tuesday, Dec 30
Turn that old 4Runner into an infant incubator
Filed under: Emerging Technologies, Etc.Finding good uses for cars that can no longer drive is always good news. But it's even better when you can recycle old cars into infant incubators using a design from the engineers at Design that Matters. Approximately 3.9 million infants die every ye...
Tuesday, Dec 23
Toyota unleashes new set of Prius teasers
The Detroit introduction of the 2010 Toyota Prius is just around the corner, but that hasn't stopped Toyota from releasing a new set of teaser images ahead of the main event, scheduled to take place just 19 days from now. First up is a door handle that looks like it may have a sensor on it, possi...
