Toyota has released a new short film that charts Toyota Racing’s challenge in this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours. The movie, The Ultimate Endurance Race, is available to view on Toyota Europe’s official YouTube channel. The film-makers were given unprecedented access to the team throughout the week of pre-race preparations, qualifying and the race itself. It […]
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The Yaris Hybrid-R which has been teased by Toyota over the past month has had a trickle of details released about it. Now, Toyota has revealed power output of 414bhp and a fast electric system using capacitors rather than batteries. In designing Yaris Hybrid-R, Toyota has created a supermini concept like no other. Based on
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Toyota finally unveils the vehicle they’ve been teasing to us over the last couple of weeks, as being the Toyota Hybrid-R Yaris. Points to those who guessed correctly from the scant details previously provided, as can be seen in these two previous posts: “New Toyota Hybrid-R Concept at Frankfurt Motorshow” and “More tease details on Toyota
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Hybrid-R is based on a current Toyota production model and is equipped with a powertrain that features similar technology to that used by Toyota Racing’s TS030 Hybrid race car in the FIA World Endurance Championship. It combines a high-power internal combustion engine with electric motors to achieve a maximum power output of more than 400bhp
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Toyota will showcase an exciting new concept for road and track at this year’s Frankfurt Motor Show, featuring Toyota Hybrid System-Racing (THS-R) technology. THS-R technology has been used in the TS030, Toyota’s FIA World Endurance Championship car, which achieved second place at this year’s Le Mans 24 hours. More information on the concept will be
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This August is Toyota’s Trybrid month, whereby Toyota are promoting test drives in their extensive range of hybrid vehicles. Toyota say it is a great way to find out exactly what the clean vehicle technology has to offer. Not only do you get to try the latest hybrids from Toyota, but they’re also offering customers’
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At the same time as it continues to bring advanced, low emission plug-in hybrid vehicles to the marketplace, Toyota knows their success will rely on customers having easy access to safe and convenient recharging points. To help make this happen, it has joined forces with fellow manufacturers in Japan to promote the installation of chargers
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Around the world millions of motorists are making the move to Toyota hybrid power, propelling the concept from a niche option to a rational choice that delivers on running costs, emissions, fuel efficiency and a quiet and refined driving experience. Here in the UK Toyota is raising the appeal of two of its leading hybrid
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Cumulative sales of the Toyota Prius passed three million in June Milestone achieved 16 years after debut of first generation model UK sales top 61,000 since market introduction in 2000 Toyota investing more than £5 billion in R&D in hybrid and cleaner vehicle technologies The Toyota Prius has reached three million global sales, confirming its
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TOYOTA Motorsport GmbH (TMG) has sent a revised TMG EV P002 to Pikes Peak International Hill Climb to defend its electric title. Based on data gained from last year’s record-breaking run of 10mins 15.380secs, engineers at TMG’s electric vehicle technology centre have generated more performance from the TMG powertrain to further improve that mark. The
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