Black Enterprise Driving Innovation Hackathon - Presented by Toyota
Mar 28, 2014
BLACK ENTERPRISE will host its first Driving Innovation Hackathon presented by Toyota, where technology and creative minds will come together to build tools that demonstrate the advantages of sustainability. The Driving Innovation program was created by Black Enterprise in partnership with Toyota to shine light on Afri ... Continue reading
Toyota Racing Enter New Era With The TS040 Hybrid
Mar 28, 2014
Toyota Racing today took the wraps off the new TS040 Hybrid, the car which will take the team into the 2014 FIA World Endurance Championship and a new era of hybrid powered motorsport. The new car, revealed today at the Paul Ricard circuit in the South of France, represents the most advanced hybrid technology in modern ... Continue reading
Celebration Concludes Third Year Of Toyota's 100 Cars For Good
Mar 27, 2014
Nine nonprofits ready to serve their communities will gather today to celebrate the 2013 100 Cars for Good philanthropy program. The charities will use their nine vehicles (seven Siennas and two Tundras) won through the program's public voting to transport people, food and even musical instruments. Those same instrumen ... Continue reading
Honda, Toyota Plan to Launch Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles in 2015
Mar 26, 2014
Washington DC March 26, 2014; The AIADA newsletter reported that Honda Motor Co. and Toyota Motor Corp. plan to launch fuel cell vehicles in the consumer market in 2015, with each producing about 1,000 units a year, according to Automotive News. Initial prices of these zero-emission vehicles, which cover longer distanc ... Continue reading
Mar 26, 2014
Toyota will kick up some dust at this year's Atlanta International Auto Show by debuting its all-new 2015 TRD Pro Series truck and SUV lineup in Atlanta, from March 26-31. The world's largest automaker also is bringing the largest hybrid family of vehicles on the planet to its 20,000 square-foot booth at Georgia's larg ... Continue reading
Toyota Racing's Anthony Davidson Picks a new Auris Hybrid Touring Sports
Mar 26, 2014
Toyota Racingâs Anthony Davidson took time out from his preparations for the World Endurance Championship season to take delivery of a new set of wheels for life away from the race track. The 34-year-old British driver called in at Toyotaâs Burnaston factory near Derby to pick up a new Auris Hybrid Touring Sp ... Continue reading
Partnership between Toyota and local landfill turns garbage into good
Mar 25, 2014
Can a car company be a vehicle for change? Toyota thinks so. The Kentucky plant that manufactures some of the greenest cars on the road, including two hybrid models, will soon be powered in part by green electricity. Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc. has teamed up with Waste Services of the Bluegrass to genera ... Continue reading
Toyota and Partners Develop Pioneering Vehicle-to-Vehicle Copper Recycling Technology
Mar 25, 2014
Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) has developed a world-first technology for recycling the copper contained in wiring harnesses, in collaboration with Yazaki Corporation (Yazaki), Toyota Tsusho Corporation (Toyota Tsusho), and eight other companies. The newly-developed technology produces copper with a purity of 99.96 per ... Continue reading
Mar 25, 2014
Toyota has launched the first public trials of its ultra-compact i-Road electric three-wheeled âpersonal mobility vehicleâ to find out how it shapes up in the cut-and-thrust of real-world urban driving. Consumer testing in Tokyo is set to run from today (24 March) through to early June, with 10 of the single- ... Continue reading
Toyota Financial Services Issues Auto Industry’s First-Ever Asset-Backed Green Bond
Mar 24, 2014
Bond Proceeds to Fund Consumer Loans and Leases for Toyotaâs Leading Portfolio of Green Vehicles March 24, 2014 TORRANCE, Calif., (March 24, 2014) â Toyota Financial Services (TFS) issued the auto industryâs first-ever Asset-Backed Green Bond in the amount of $1.75 billion. The offering was upsized from ... Continue reading
First Robotics of Michigan Powered by Toyota
Mar 24, 2014
$20,000 in Grants to Three Michigan Organizations Toyota Technical Center (TTC) announces $20,000 in grants to FIRST Robotics of Michigan. For over 35 years TTC, headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan has been the driving force behind Toyota's engineering, advance research & development activities for North America and e ... Continue reading
Toyota to Fund Film with Kentucky Commission on Women
Mar 24, 2014
$100,000 Gift Will Help Raise Awareness of Womenâs Contributions to History of Kentucky March 18, 2014 FRANKFORT, Ky. â (March 18, 2014) â Kentuckyâs place in the history books is often held by men: Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Boone, Henry Clay and Muhammad Ali, to name a few. A new partnership between ... Continue reading
Mar 24, 2014
Provides $375,000 in Scholarships Aimed at Minority Candidates March 18, 2014 A unique scholarship program was unveiled today that matches Toyotaâs need for mechanical engineers with that of top incoming students at Kentucky State University in Frankfort. The Toyota Engineering Scholarship program â made poss ... Continue reading
Toyota ME.WE Concept Car Nominated For Designs Of The Year Award
Mar 22, 2014
A Toyota concept car conceived to challenge traditional thinking about vehicle design and engineering has been put forward for a prestigious design honour. ME.WE, a highly adaptable, no-frills model developed in a ground-breaking collaboration between architect and designer Jean-Marie Massaud and ED2, Toyotaâs Eur ... Continue reading
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