Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc. (TMMK) today awarded $123,000 in grants to six Louisville non-profit organizations, with the money aimed at improving the lives of children and youth. Visit @Toyota ACCESS to receive your news via e-mail. Update your RSS feed preferences. [...]
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Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), USA., Inc., today announced that it is expanding its Product Quality Field Office program to four additional U.S. regional sales areas, following the success of a pilot program launched in the New York region in late 2009. TMS will officially open its next Product Quality Field Office [...] [...] Crashing hybrid sales Hybrid sales down more than 17 percent in June Compared to last June auto sales were up 14 percent, however, hybrid sales dropped 17.5 percent due to a poor economy and cheaper gas prices according to Hybridcars.com That means in June, hybrid sales slumped to just 2.2 percent of total auto sales. The king of hybrid [...] [...] California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Assembly Bill 1500 Wednesday, providing a perk that allows owners of pure electric vehicles and cars running on compressed natural gas to drive solo in California carpool lanes until Jan. 1, 2015. That’s good news for owners of the all-electric Tesla Roadster and Toyota Rav4 EV, and motorists planning to buy [...] [...] Made in the USA only for the USA Time to become more worldly? Gas guzzling. Americans love gas-guzzling, as our big gas-guzzlers make us feel both safe and strong. Unfortunately, our gas-guzzling also makes us dependent upon oil from foreign countries where the US is not well liked. Perhaps even more worrisome, however, our big gas-guzzlers are an [...] [...] A key to fuel economy? The strength of carbon fiber These days any conversation regarding fuel economy, oil dependence, etc. ultimately seems to always resolve to batteries. Yet, the research on batteries seems to indicate that if the battery is the future of the auto industry, the world has many decades before that future fully unfolds. Consequently, is [...] [...] Still a wild card A long road ahead for plug-ins and hybrids By 2020, Nissan believes electric cars could achieve up to 10 percent marketshare, while Ford and Toyota believe their hybrid cars could make up as much as 25 and 30 percent of share, respectively. Automotive supplier Bosch, however, expects just 9 percent global share for hybrids [...] [...] > Subscribe to the HybridCars.com Market Dashboard Sales of hybrid cars fell by 17.5 percent in June, compared to one year ago, while the overall car market grew by more than 14 percent. With gas prices remaining low, consumers looking for a new car were not motivated to spend more money on a fuel-efficient car. [...] [...] |
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