Toyota’s Chevrolet Volt competitor is here! The Japanese automaker today officially introduced the new 2012 Prius Plug-in Hybrid, which will hit dealerships in 14 launch states beginning this October through Toyota’s Online Order System at www.toyota.com. Deliveries of the 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid strat in Spring 2012. The launch states include California, Oregon, Washington, [...]
Toyota’s executive vice president of R&D and engineering, Takeshi Uchiyamada, is anticipating that 20 percent of global vehicle sales will be extended-range plug-in hybrids by 2020. Hybrid sales in Japan are already at 20 percent, however most other developing areas are below 10 percent, or just hitting that mark. The market share for Toyota’s hybrids [...]
Toyota will be unveiling their latest addition to the Prii family at this year’s Frankfurt Motor Show in September. The Prius Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle or Prius PHEV is pegged to be the cleanest and most technologically advanced Prius yet. Because the Prius PHEV is equipped with a new battery, the EV power range gets [...]
Independent analytical firm, Interbrand, has just released a new study that says Toyota is the “world’s greenest brand,” beating corporate industrial behemoths like 3M and Siemens. Better known for the Best Global Brands study, Interbrand introduced this study to measure the environmental performance and a brand’s environmental sustainability based on public records. With models such [...]
As part of Toyota’s efforts to find how well their Prius plug-in hybrid works in the real world, Toyota leased 20 third-generation Prius plug-ins through EDF Energy, a leasing program that works with businesses and fleet management in London, UK. Just recently, the study hit its first year out of three, which began last summer. [...]
What does Canadian basketball player and point guard for the Phoenix Suns Steve Nash do after beating an old lady to a parking spot in his Toyota Prius? A very awkward, yet funny dance. Check it out in the video after the jump.
Toyota says that even with one day’s worth of Prius hybrids on dealer lots after the March 11 earthquake in Japan, sales of the model will still top 2010. Nonetheless, Toyota is racing to replenish inventory as lack of supply caused a 61 percent drop in Prius deliveries in June 2011. That is the lowest [...]
Earlier this week, Toyota held its national dealer meeting in Las Vegas, which was headed by the Japanese automaker’s president Akio Toyoda. The meeting was attended by representatives from Toyota’s 1,233 U.S. dealers. During the meeting Toyoda told dealers that the Prius family launch remains on track. This fall, Toyota will launch the new Prius V, [...]
Stop laughing at the Toyota Prius for not being sporty. The best-selling hybrid in the United States will now be offered with a new sporty accessory package for the 2011 model year known as the Prius PLUS Performance Package, which features components of the new PLUS hybrid performance line from Toyota Racing Development (TRD). The [...]
There have been a lot of rumors recently that Toyota has intentions of giving its popular Prius its very own brand. Toyota executive have advised that there are no plans to do so. The speculation is a result of Toyota’s intentions to release four Prius models next year, compared to the one model available in [...]
