Toyota Motor Europe is looking to overtake Fiat as Europe’s low-CO2 champion. To knock Fiat off the top as the greenest automaker in Europe, Toyota is counting on its new UK-made Auris hybrid, which it started producing Monday at its Burnaston factory. “Toyota definitely wants to become Europe’s greenest automaker,” Willy Tomboy, Toyota Motor Europe [...]
Toyota today unveiled its new 2011 Toyota Auris HSD (Hybrid Synergy Drive) its first step in the deployment of HSD technology across its entire European lineup by the early 2020s. Power for the 2011 Auris HSD comes from a 97-hp 1.8L 4-cylinder VVT-i gasoline engine mated to an electric-motor and a single E-CVT transmission controlled [...]
It’s been quite sometime that we’ve been hearing that Toyota is working on a hybrid that is smaller than the Toyota Prius. It was first reported that Toyota is working on a hybrid variant of the Yaris, which the company eventually denied. However, it did confirm that a smaller hybrid is on the way. Well, [...]
As reported earlier this week, Toyota is working on a full-hybrid version of the Auris. The Japanese automaker confirmed today that it will build the hybrid version of the C-segment hatchback at its UK-based Burnaston, Derbyshire facility. Production of the first Euro-built full-hybrid Auris will kick off in mid-2010. Toyota said that the engines for [...]
Akihiko Otsuka, chief engineer of the redesigned 2010 Toyota Prius, confirmed earlier this year that Toyota is working on a small gasoline-electric car that will be a spin-off of the Toyota Yaris. Now, according to Nikkan Jidosha Shimbun industry daily, Toyota is also working on a gasoline-electric hybrid version of the Auris hatchback for the [...]
