Toyota have announced that half of their total UK Auris model sales are with hybrid technology. This news follows that of the sales successes of the Yaris Hybrid which you can read more about here. Though hybrids account for half of all Auris sales, the Auris model itself has proven extremely popular, with it being […]
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Figures released by the SMMT confirm the Toyota Yaris as one of the top 10 best-selling models in the UK car market. Toyota sold 7,438 Yaris in March alone, with one in four specified with a hybrid powertrain. This sales result represents growth of 15.6% on the numbers achieved in March 2013. Yaris Hybrid sales
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Toyota is ‘turning garbage into good’ with a scheme to use gas from a landfill site to power vehicle production. Although the company targets zero waste-to-landfill for its operations, it has come up with a method of generating ‘green’ electricity from a disposal site close to its factory in Georgetown, Kentucky. The system is expected
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Toyota Racing has taken 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, will make its competition debut at the season-opening Six Hours of Silverstone race on 20 April. Toyota will be
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Toyota Racing’s 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 Toyota’s Burnaston factory near Derby to pick up a new Auris Hybrid Touring Sports. The top-of-the-range Excel
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Toyota have announced the start of consumer trials of the “i-Road” personal mobility vehicle in the Greater Tokyo area. The limited trials, which aim to gauge the effectiveness of the electric vehicle in everyday situations in urban areas, will run from today, 24th March, through until early June. The i-Road offers a novel riding experience,
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In the past, the Goodwood Festival of Speed (FoS) has been a pilgrimage for petrol heads. Mostly consisting of cars which were made to guzzle fuel at incredible rates in a bid to claim the title of world’s fastest, Goodwood has not exactly been the ideal haven for the more environmentally conscious minded person, and
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Toyota’s weird but somehow intriguing FV2 concept makes its debut at the Geneva Motor Show. The innovative concept is, in our opinion, a bit like an advanced Sinclair C5 – and we don’t mean that in a derogatory way either. The Sinclair C5 might be the brunt of many a joke now, but to be
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Toyota’s pioneering FCV (Fuel Cell Vehicle) is making it’s European debut at the 2014 Geneva Motor Show. Yoshikazu Tanaka is the man in charge of development for fuel cell vehicles at Toyota. The following interview gives some insight into the work involved in bringing a new powertrain technology to fruition and the advantages of hydrogen
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This winter has been one of the worst on record worldwide. There have been terrible floods here in the UK as well as exceptionally cold weather in the United States of America. Thousands of people have been left without power and in the cold over the last few months. Generators for remote power are nothing
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