- You are here:
- Green Car News >
- Katsuaki-Watanabe
Katsuaki-Watanabe
-
0Geneva '08: Watanabe - No diesel hybrids for Toyota 1204734540
Diesel hybrids are popping up everywhere in Geneva this week from Volkswagen to Mercedes-Benz to BMW. One notable exception is Toyota. The hybrid pioneer has never shown a diesel hybrid and according to Katsuaki Watanabe, the company's president they have no plans to offer one. The problem lies in ...
-
Once more, with feeling, from Geneva: all Toyotas will get hybrid option 1204675320
The Asia-only Toyota Crown model (pictured) is the latest Toyota to get a hybrid powertrain option but it certainly won't be the last. Toyota president Katsuaki Watanabe told Automotive News (subs req'd) in Geneva today that sometime in the 2020s, every Toyota will be available with a hybrid ...
-
Toyota clarifies their hybrid goals, ten more years 1200757740
During Toyota President Katsuaki Watanabe's speech at the Toyota Media reception at the Detroit Auto Show last Sunday night he mentioned the company hybrid sales goal. I didn't mention it in my own report of the event because I didn't consider it all that noteworthy since it's been discussed ...
-
Toyota still apprehensive about lithium ion in spite of PHEV plans 1200574920
Last Sunday night, Toyota President Katsuaki Watanabe announced that the company would offer lithium ion equipped plug-in hybrids to fleet customers in two years. Toyota and Panasonic are also doing feasibility studies for an automotive lithium battery production line at their joint venture battery ...
-
Detroit 2008: Toyota President Katsuaki Watanabe pops in at party with surprise announcements 1200281160
For the last several years Toyota has held an annual get together following the close of the first day of media previews at the Detroit Auto Show. This year's shin-dig brought with it several surprises. Toyota President Katsuaki Watanabe made an unannounced appearance and delivered about a ten ...
-
Watanabe: Each Toyota model will have a hybrid option 1199388300
During his New Year's Speech, Toyota's CEO Katsuaki Watanabe announced some highlights about the future plans of his company. The most spectacular is the one we used as a headline: Each Toyota model will have a hybrid powertrain available so that Toyota can reach the goal of selling a million ...

