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Toyota and Subaru to build two Electric SUVs on a jointly developed EV platform
Subaru and Toyota will team up once again to create a brand-new electric vehicle platform. The Japanese car giants will jointly build a compact Electric SUV on this architecture with versions sold under both brands. This follows on from their successful partnership when they jointly developed rear-wheel-drive Toyota 86 and Subaru BRZ. “The two companies…
Read full article >>Toyota announces all-electric C-HR and will launch 10 new electrified models in China by 2020
Toyota has advanced its plans to accelerate the development and commercialisation of electrified vehicles with the announcement of a series of new models at the Beijing Motor Show, including a battery electric car based on the C-HR crossover. The new vehicles are destined for the Chinese market and include plug-in hybrid electric versions of the…
Read full article >>By 2025 every model in the Toyota and Lexus line-up around the world will be electrified
Just days after Toyota’s announcement of a new partnership with Panasonic to develop solid state batteries they have gone even further and announced that they are aiming for electrified vehicles to account for more than 50 per cent of its new-vehicle sales around the end of the next decade. Toyota’s plan involves a significant acceleration…
Read full article >>Toyota and Panasonic announce joint venture to develop prismatic battery cells for electric cars
Toyota have always pushed hydrogen hybrids as the answer to a green motoring future. Very successfully too with models like the top selling Prius and also with the Lexus range of hybrids as well. Well it looks like Toyota may be having a change of direction with the recent announcement of a joint venture with…
Read full article >>Mazda, Toyota and Denso join forces to develop electric vehicle technology
In a recent announcement Mazda, Toyota and Denso confirmed that they are joining forces to develop electric vehicle technology. The three companies have also agreed to establish a new company, EV C.A. Spirit, as a joint development center consisting of “selected engineers to ensure the efficient implementation of the joint technological development projects.” (Photo above…
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