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Toyota Mobility Foundation Launches Program in Da Nang, Vietnam

Toyota Mobility Foundation Launches Program in Da Nang, Vietnam

The Foundation's Second Program Will Address Emerging Transportation Issues in Rapidly Growing Mid-sized City TOKYO -- June 9, 2015: Toyota Mobility Foundation (TMF) today announced its second program, which will launch in Da Nang, Vietnam to address emerging transportation issues in the rapidly growing mid-size city. ... Continue reading

Toyota Manufacturing UK Achieves Record Production

Toyota Manufacturing UK Achieves Record Production

Burnaston factory achieves unprecedented simultaneous start of production for new Auris and Avensis Toyota Manufacturing UK meets the challenge of planning and delivering two new models at the same time Strategic planning and commitment of workforce and suppliers help meet a challenge unprecedented in Toyota outside Ja ... Continue reading

Kalibrate Delivers California Hydrogen Refueling Infrastructure Planning Results to NREL

Kalibrate Delivers California Hydrogen Refueling Infrastructure Planning Results to NREL

Location intelligence expertise reveals best hydrogen refueling station locations for California Florham Park, NJ – June 4, 2015 – Kalibrate has released the results of its California hydrogen refueling infrastructure analysis to the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Becaus ... Continue reading

2015 Toyota 4Runner TRD Review By Steve Purdy

2015 Toyota 4Runner TRD Review By Steve Purdy

2015 Toyota 4Runner TRD Review By Steve Purdy ... Continue reading

Newsweek Names Toyota One of the World's Greenest Companies

Newsweek Names Toyota One of the World's Greenest Companies

Toyota Moves up 57 Spots from Last Year PLANO, TX -- June 4, 2015: Newsweek has named a car company as one of the world’s greenest companies, ahead of highly-regarded brands like Microsoft, Google, Nike and Coke. Toyota moved up 57 spots in Newsweek’s annual green ranking to #35 in the Global 500 and #2 in au ... Continue reading

Petroleum Past Helps Fuel Hydrogen Future

Petroleum Past Helps Fuel Hydrogen Future

Water from Pennsylvania’s Oil Creek Becomes Hydrogen Fuel for Mirai Second Video in Toyota’s “Fueled by Everything” Series TORRANCE, CA -- June 3, 2015: A creek, a little high school chemistry, and a former oil boom town open to a hydrogen-fueled future. This is the story of “Fueled by Oil Cree ... Continue reading

Dan Friedkin, Chairman of Gulf States Toyota and The Friedkin Group Donates $50,000 to the American Red Cross for Texas Flood Relief Efforts

Dan Friedkin, Chairman of Gulf States Toyota and The Friedkin Group Donates $50,000 to the American Red Cross for Texas Flood Relief Efforts

HOUSTON -- June 3, 2015: Texas residents saw more than 35 trillion gallons of water fall across the state in May, according to National Weather Service. Many rivers, lakes and streams were not able to contain the water causing devastating flooding for many residents throughout Texas. To help with the relief efforts in ... Continue reading

Water from Pennsylvania's Oil Creek Becomes Hydrogen Fuel +VIDEO

Water from Pennsylvania's Oil Creek Becomes Hydrogen Fuel +VIDEO

Water from Pennsylvania’s Oil Creek Becomes Hydrogen Fuel for Mirai TORRANCE, Calif. (June 3, 2015) – A creek, a little high school chemistry, and a former oil boom town open to a hydrogen-fueled future. This is the story of “Fueled by Oil Creek,” the second online video in Toyota’s multi-part ... Continue reading

Toyota to Explore Integration of SmartDeviceLink Technology

Toyota to Explore Integration of SmartDeviceLink Technology

Smartphone in-car infotainment operation technology aimed at seamless user experience Torrance, CA -June 3, 2015: Toyota Motor Corporation has reached an agreement with Ford Motor Company to explore collaboration with Livio, a Ford subsidiary, for the implementation of SmartDeviceLink (SDL) technology in future Toyota ... Continue reading

Summer Safety 101: Getting Your Ride Road Trip Ready

Summer Safety 101: Getting Your Ride Road Trip Ready

Whether historic U.S. Route 1 is your main vacation drag or you’re cruising for a day on Pacific Coast Highway or motoring west on the route that’s the best, summer means one thing to many Americans…road trip. Before you sally forth, you might want to tackle a few technical “to dos” to ensure y ... Continue reading

SmartDeviceLink Gains Momentum as Industry-Driven Option for Smartphone App Integration into Vehicle Dashboards

SmartDeviceLink Gains Momentum as Industry-Driven Option for Smartphone App Integration into Vehicle Dashboards

With today’s announcement of Toyota exploring adoption of SmartDeviceLink technology, traction is gaining for the open-source software project goal of creating an automotive industry-based solution for integrating smartphone apps into vehicles. ... Continue reading

Toyota Is No. 1 Retail Brand In May 2015

Toyota Is No. 1 Retail Brand In May 2015

Toyota division posted May 2015 sales of 212,908 units, down 1.6 percent on a volume basis and up 2.2 percent on a DSR basis. &nbsp;&nbsp;<br> &nbsp;<br> "Strong May results boosted the industry to the best sales pace since last summer,&rdquo; said Bill Fay, Toyota Division group vice president and general manager. "To ... Continue reading

UK Buskers Line Up for Toyota's Feeling the Street Competition

UK Buskers Line Up for Toyota's Feeling the Street Competition

Last few days of online voting to create the ultimate street band Feeling the Street, Toyota’s global competition to find the world’s best buskers and form the ultimate street band, enters its final few days of online voting with four UK-based acts in with a chance of success. The public have until 3 June to ... Continue reading

Toyota Is The World's Most Valuable Automotive Brand

Toyota Is The World's Most Valuable Automotive Brand

Toyota retained the top spot as the most valuable automotive brand in the BrandZ™ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands report 2015. Toyota’s brand was valued at $28.9 billion (approx. £18.8 billion) and maintains its top 30 position in the all-sector ranking. In the 10 years since the BrandZ™ report wa ... Continue reading

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