American ride-hailing firm Uber has raised $3.5bn from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. This is the first time that Uber secured such a huge funding from a single investor. The investment will not affect the company's ...
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Due to parts shortages resulting from the severe earthquakes that struck Japan's island of Kyushu on April 14 and after, Toyota Motor has continued to make updated announcements regarding decisions about production while continuously ...
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Toyota Motor will exhibit at Smart Community Japan 2016, to be held at Tokyo Big Site, for three days from June 15 to 17. The star attraction from Toyota will be the unveiling of the Japanese version of the new model Prius PHV. At this ...
Toyota Motor North America is joining forces with DEKA Research and Development, the company founded by legendary inventor Dean Kamen, to support mobility solutions for the disabled community. This agreement will help DEKA to proceed with ...
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Toyota Mobility Foundation has joined the New Cities Foundation as its latest Global Strategic Member. The partnership between the two organizations aims to activate the next generation of urban mobility solutions. Innovation is ...
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True Zero has opened a hydrogen-fuel station in California, US. Snipping the ribbon in front of the True Zero dispenser at Conserv Fuel, 150 S. LaCumbre Road, included: Aeron Arlin-Genet, District Director & Air Pollution Control Officer, ...
Toyota has inaugaurated a new $170m engine manufacturing facility in Sao Paulo, Brazil. It is the company's first engine manufacturing plant in Latin America. The new plant, which employs about 320 people, was constructed on a plot of ...
Toyota announced that it will launch plug-in hybrid versions of the Corolla and Levin―two mass-market models―in China during 2018. In 2005, based on long-term plans to encourage the widespread use of environmentally-friendly ...
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A Queensland not-for-profit charity providing food relief for families in need is benefiting from new and refurbished material handling equipment supplied by Toyota Material Handling Australia (TMHA). Located at Loganholme and Hillcrest ...
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Japanese automakers Toyota, and Honda, and other have been hit by the recent earthquakes in the country. Toyota said it will stop production on its vehicle assembly lines in stages between April 18 and 23 because of parts shortages ...
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Toyota Motor (TMC), Toyota Financial Services (TFS) and Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance (AD) have established a joint venture telematics car insurance services company, Toyota Insurance Management Solutions (TIMS) USA. The new company will be ...
Toyota has partnered with the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) to study fully autonomous driving and advanced mobility technology that is being tested in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The automaker plans to deploy ...
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BOC has signed an agreement with ITM Power to provide infrastructure for ITM Power’s new electrolyser-based hydrogen refueling stations for passenger cars. The announcement underpins ITM Power's ongoing plans to build a network of ...
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Global auto giant Toyota is set to open a new research facility in Ann Arbor, near the University of Michigan (U-M) campus, taking the number of its research centers to three in the US. The company will fund research in artificial ...
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Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed a 20KW wireless charging system for electric vehicles. The wireless system claims to offer three times more efficiency than that ...
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