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Toyota announced on Monday a self-driving electric concept vehicle that it will tailor for companies to use for tasks like ride hailing and package delivery, underscoring how automakers are no longer simply building cars but also providing services to go with them. Let’s block ads! (Why?)
Toyota on Tuesday announced the launch of Toyota AI Ventures, a new venture capital subsidiary focused on startup tech companies working on artificial intelligence. The fund has received an initial $ 100 million from the Toyota Research Institute (TRI), an AI-, robotics-, and autonomous-car-focused initiative created in 2015. AI Ventures will direct its investments toward […]
TORONTO – BlackBerry Ltd is downplaying news that Toyota is adopting rival software for its future vehicle consoles, saying it was more focused on the faster-growing market for autonomous driving technology. Automotive Grade Linux (AGL), a collaborative effort of some 100 technology companies and automakers, said last week that Toyota would start using its open-source […]
Toyota is working on developing flying cars, with the aim of having a single driver vehicle ready to fly in time for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. The idea is that a small flying car will be able to smoothly transition from driving to the skies, in order to delivery the Olympic torch for […]
A trademark application filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office hints that a vehicle based on the Toyota FT-4X Concept may be headed for production. But it won’t be called FT-4X (good riddance). Instead, Toyota may riff on the deceased-but-still-loved FJ Cruiser by naming its smaller ‘ute the TJ Cruiser. Remember, the FJ […]
Last week Toyota Motor Corp. president Akio Toyoda presented the company’s financial results for the fiscal year ending in March. Things were not good for the company. In terms of its net income, it plummeted 20.8 percent to 1.8311 trillion yen ($ 16.954 billion, based on 105 yen to the dollar). To put that in […]
Automotive enthusiasts talk all the time about the performance characteristics of electric motors versus the fossil-fueled internal combustion engines that they seek to replace. The conversation about the differences between the two powerplants usually revolves around torque, and how that motive power is delivered. As you’ve probably read, or possibly even experienced yourself, electric motors […]
When you build a car, there are three groups of people that matter – a love triangle, if everything goes well. There are the marketers who figure out how to sell what the carmaker builds, the critics (read: us) who leverage our experience and knowledge to grade the thing, and then there’s the buyer. The […]
Toyota announced that it has developed a hybrid boat. Called the PONAM-28V, Toyota claims it is the first parallel hybrid boat in Japan. It uses a combination of a 256-horsepower internal-combustion engine and a 48-horsepower electric motor that also makes 258 pound-feet of torque. For electricity storage, it has a 11 kWh lithium-ion battery. Among […]
