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Toyota’s electrified vehicles nearly 24% of 2022 sales volume

Toyota offers its customers 20 different electrified vehicle options.

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Toyota switches up the formula on new Prius model

Toyota has unveiled its all-new Prius Series Parallel Hybrid (HEV) and Plug-in Hybrid (PHEV) models. The market should expect these new models to launch in the winter of this year and spring of the next, respectively. Toyota says it decided to treat this new generation to an overhaul to its feature list and appearance. With

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Toyota invests $2.5B in North Carolina plant, BEV battery capacity

Toyota has announced an additional investment of $2.5 billion in its newest North American facility, Toyota Battery Manufacturing North Carolina (TBMNC). This investment adds capacity to support battery electric vehicle (BEV) battery production. Scheduled to begin production in 2025, the facility will produce batteries for hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) and BEVs. Last year, Toyota Motor

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Toyota partners to advance megawatt-scale fuel cell systems

Toyota Motor North America (Toyota) is collaborating with the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to build, install and evaluate a 1-megawatt (MW) proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell power generation system at NREL’s Flatirons Campus in Arvada, Colorado. This three-year, $6.5 million collaboration is funded in part by DOE’s Hydrogen

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Toyota releases storage battery system for residential use

Toyota Motor Corporation has developed the “O-Uchi Kyuden System,” a home storage battery system, now open for preorders in Japan. The O-Uchi Kyuden System uses electrified vehicle battery technology such as Toyota’s battery control to provide a rated capacity of 8.7 kWh and a rated output of 5.5 kWh. By linking with a photovoltaic system,

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Toyota working on closed-loop EV battery ecosystem

Toyota Motor North America has embarked on a mission to create a sustainable, closed-loop battery ecosystem for its electrified powertrains. The company says this mission focuses not only on the collection, testing and recycling of batteries into raw materials to create a sustainable supply chain, but also aims to develop second-life opportunities for remanufactured and

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Toyota develops portable hydrogen cartridge prototype

Toyota Motor Corporation and its subsidiary, Woven Planet Holdings, Inc., have developed a working prototype of a portable hydrogen cartridge. This cartridge design will facilitate the everyday transport and supply of hydrogen energy to power a broad range of daily life applications in and outside of the home. Toyota and Woven Planet will conduct proof

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Toyota announces 2023 Corolla Cross Hybrid specs

Based on the Corolla sedan, Toyota has debuted its new 2023 Corolla Cross Hybrid in the U.S. Available only with all-wheel drive, the Corolla Cross Hybrid uses the TNGA-C platform. With the new fifth-generation Toyota hybrid system under the hood, coupled with the electronic all-wheel drive system that’s new to the Corolla nameplate, the Corolla

EVgo to give Toyota bZ4X customers year of free EV fast charging

When the 2023 Toyota bZ4X battery electric SUV arrives at dealers later this year, it will mark the start of a collaboration between Toyota Motor North America (Toyota) and EVgo to provide new bZ4X customers with on-the-go access to DC fast charging stations. Customers who purchase or lease a new 2023 Toyota bZ4X will get

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Toyota, ChargePoint partner on EV charging solutions

In preparation for the launch of its all-new 2023 bZ4X battery electric SUV later this year, Toyota Motor North America, Inc. (Toyota) will work with ChargePoint, Inc. to offer customers home and public EV charging solutions. For home charging, bZ4X customers will have the option to purchase a ChargePoint Home Flex Level 2 charger from

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Toyota EVs represent nearly 26% of its total 2022 Q1 sales

Toyota Motor North America (TMNA) reported that first-quarter sales of electrified vehicles totaled 132,938, representing 25.8% of the company’s total sales volume (that’s up from 22.9% during the same period last year). March sales of electrified vehicles represented 25.4% of total sales volume. The company says RAV4 Hybrid sales were up 34.9% in March on

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Toyota Commits $90M for EV Production

To help meet demand in the vehicle electrification market, Toyota announced an additional $90 million investment for two of its U.S. manufacturing facilities: Toyota West Virginia (TMMWV) – $73 million This investment comes on the heels of the $240 million investment announced in November and will increase hybrid transaxle production capacity to 600,000 units per

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