Toyota has finally unveiled the all-new all-electric Toyota RAV4 EV. Working with Tesla Motors, Toyota has the intent to bring the vehicle to market in 2012 with a starting price tag of $49,800. The Toyota RAV4 EV will be sold fully-equipped. “It’s all about blending the best of two worlds,” said Bob Carter, group vice president [...]
Toyota confirmed today that it will debut the all-new RAV4 EV at the 26th International Electric Vehicle Symposium (EVS26) in Los Angeles. The debut will take place on May 7 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. At the 2010 LA Auto Show, Toyota unveiled the RAV4 EV prototype, which gets its power from Tesla Motors [...]
NHTSA safety regulators have opened a preliminary investigation into complaints of driver side door fires in 2007 model year Toyota Camry and RAV4 models. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said an estimated 830,000 vehicles may be affected by the potential recall. The NHTSA said that 6 consumers have complained about the door fires. “Based [...]
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. [...]
