Investors Happy As Toyota Accelerates Electric Plans. “We want to leave all people with a choice, and rather than where or what we will focus on, we will wait a little longer until we understand where the market is going. If we provide the correct solution for the average person we won’t have the correct […]
Take A Bow Toyota, You Win With EU 2020 Sales Down Only 12.8%. “2020 saw the biggest yearly drop in car demand since records began, with new-car registrations falling by 3 million compared to 2019 The prize for the most successful big auto manufacturer in the European Union (EU) for 2020 was Toyota with sales […]
Toyota Might Be A Lone Victim Of Latest Brexit Talks Hurdle. “Nissan has lots of Renault options, but Toyota is the big issue. Quite a lot of content, mainly for its hybrids from Japan, do not have enough local content from the EU or the U.K. What will they do? Britain’s auto industry has become […]
Toyota Concedes On Batteries, Hedging With Hybrids, Fuel Cells. “Toyota will unveil a solid-state electric vehicle battery which it has developed with Panasonic next year before the Tokyo Olympic Games” Toyota Motor of Japan hoped that hybrids and fuel cells and a smattering of battery-only vehicles would meet its future technology needs, but toughening fuel […]
Toyota, Mazda To Build U.S. Plant, Swap Equity Stakes. Mazda Then Announces First Petrol Compression Ignition Motor. Toyota Motor and Mazda Motor created a stir with new developments, including an equity swap deal between the two, an agreement to build a joint factory in the U.S., and then Mazda topped it off with news it […]
Toyota Reels From Foreign Exchange Turbulence and Trump. Gives Up Global Sales Crown To VW. Toyota Motor Corp, buffeted by a roller-coaster of events outside its control like President Donald Trump and foreign exchange markets, reported a big fall in third quarter profit, but said things will improve a bit in the current period. In […]
“This is a dead end technology and (the manufacturers) are foolishly wasting their time. I can’t explain it. It doesn’t make any sense” Toyota’s launch of the Mirai fuel-cell powered car at the Los Angeles car show was greeted by “game-over” victory shouts by some alternative technology advocates saying battery-only powered cars have been driving […]
