The world debut of the new 2012 Toyota Camry marks a big point for Toyota Motor Corp. and their future. Because the brand has lost a significant amount of sales to rivals like Hyundai, ToMoCo wants to fight back…hard. “They (Toyota) have been given a black eye over the past three years for different things, [...]
Toyota and Tesla Motors Inc. have just confirmed today that the two will be working in conjunction with each other to build Toyota’s RAV4 Electric Vehicle at Toyota’s plant in Woodstock, Ontario. “The Tesla-Toyota joint development team has agreed that building the vehicle at the Woodstock plant on the same line as the gasoline-powered RAV4, [...]
At the 2010 LA Auto Show earlier this year, Toyota unveiled the new RAV4 EV, which we recently learned will be sold to the general public starting next year. At the time when the Toyota RAV4 EV was unveiled, Toyota said that it was making just 35 units for demo testing with battery packs and [...]
Many reports were circling around the web yesterday that the upcoming Toyota RAV4 EV will not be available to buy for the regular customer. Well, you can forget that. Toyota has just released a statement saying that the 2012 RAV 4 EV will be sold to the general public. “Recent reports have incorrectly stated that [...]
The fully-electric Toyota RAV4 EV will not be available to buy for the regular customer, Toyota’s business planning manager of advanced vehicle marketing Geri Yoza said. It was previously confirmed that the Toyota RAV4 EV will be on sale in the United STates in 2012, however, it is now said that the car will only [...]
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, [...]
That’s a pretty big title up there – well, that’s because we’re playing catching and providing you a quick update to some of important industry news you may have missed while we were covering the 2011 New York Auto Show. We still have a couple of New York Auto Show posts coming so stay tuned. [...]
To reduce the costs of powering electric cars, Toyota, Daimler, and BMW are looking to test packs of Li batteries assembled by Tesla, as opposed to other bigger batteries used by GM, Nissan, and Mitsubishi. The power source used by Tesla is derived from the same battery technology that powers laptops. A pack of 6,831 [...]
After all the teasing and waiting, Toyota and Tesla Motors today unveiled the second-generation version of the Toyota RAV4 EV (yes, there was a first-generation). TMS president and COO Jim Lentz confirmed that a total of 35 units will be built for demo and an evaluation program through 2011. “When we decided to work together [...]
Toyota yesterday released two teasers of the RAV4 EV that it will debut at the 2010 LA Auto Show. Tesla Motors, which will be providing the electric drivetrain for the electric SUV, says that the initial deal to supply battery packs and motors for the RAV4 EV will only be for a few thousand units. [...]
