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While speaking at Toyota's 2011 Sustainable Mobility Seminar in San Diego, CA in early April, Jana Hartline, Toyota's manager of environmental communications, said that the automaker's upcoming electric vehicle (currently referred to as the FT-EV concept), to be based on the oft-delayed Scion ...

Toyota president, Akio Toyoda, addressed the company's U.S. dealers at an annual conference in Las Vegas and his vision for the automaker came through loud and clear: he intends to run a company that dominates the electric-drive ...

We're taking this news with a grain of salt for now, but Motor Trend is reporting that Toyota is hard at work on a fully electric supercar. If there's any truth to this report, Toyota President Akio Toyoda was so impressed after a spin in Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster that he immediately green-lit a ...

In 1996, Toyota formed a joint venture (JV) with Panasonic and the two companies have collaborated on battery production for hybrid and electric vehicles ever since. Back then, Panasonic had a controlling interest in the JV (60 ...

The graphical representation above really tells the whole story here, but we'll try to offer up a little extra insight anyway. Deloitte Consulting conducted a widespread survey covering several aspects of the automotive industry, and you can read the whole report here. The graph above illustrates ...

In a bit of a tirade against plug-in vehicles recently, Toyota's Bill Reinert said – among other things – that "As for plug-in electrics, they're just not plausible right now." He has a point, of course, but Fast Company takes Reinert's logic to task and makes the case that Toyota ...

The electric vehicle money is flowing everywhere. Following the U.S. DOE's announcement yesterday, the UK has announced it will spend £25 million ($40 million) on a large project to get EVs and "ultra-low carbon vehicles an everyday ...

We were introduced to the FT-EV, Toyota's surprise battery-powered Detroit Auto Show vehicle, the other day - but only via official press photos. We've now had a chance to check out the shiny decorations on the FT-EV here in Cobo Hall and can bring you ...