Toyota Prius Gets Ready for 2011
11 Sep 2010, 13:09 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Japanese manufacturer Toyota released yesterday the details of the Toyota Pius model for the 2011 model year, a version of the world's best selling hybrid which will come with minor tweaks here...
Toyota Prius PHEV Reaches Ontario
30 Aug 2010, 06:44 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The push to increase testing of the Prius model's plug-in hybrid version continues, with Japanese manufacturer Toyota announcing the delivery of the first such vehicle to Ontario, Canada, to b...
Toyota to Deploy Prius Plug-In in San Francisco
26 Aug 2010, 10:31 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Japanese manufacturer Toyota announced yesterday a new partnership with the city of San Francisco which will allow the carmaker to deploy several of its Prius plug-in hybrid vehicles for testing in ...
Toyota Prius Gets Creepy Approaching Sounds
25 Aug 2010, 07:59 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In response to the increasing demand to fir hybrid and electric vehicles with sound generating technologies which would warn pedestrians of their approach, the Japanese from Toyota are getting ready...
Prius Contest Finalists Announced
20 Aug 2010, 10:44 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Two weeks after Japanese manufacturer Toyota kicked off the 10 Years of Toyota Prius Anniversary Celebration on Facebook, the carmaker announced the 10 finalists who will race for a chance to host t...
Toyota Prius Executive Line from Wald International
5 Aug 2010, 07:50 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Wald International, the Japanese tuner which has already got us used with some fine looking packages for both Japanese cars and top luxury sedans, is currently cooking up what they call the Executiv...
Toyota Kicks Off Prius Facebook Contest
3 Aug 2010, 04:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As most of you already know by now, Japanese manufacturer Toyota is celebrating this year 10 years since its Prius hybrid entered the US and made history. Among the celebrations prepared for the eve...
LTE Connected Car at Shanghai Expo
22 Jul 2010, 10:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As the worlds of communications, IT and cars begin to merge, more and more companies embrace a concept which up until now seemed to belong to the realm of sci-fi: car connectivity. The concept, alre...
Toyota Settles with Severinsky over Prius
20 Jul 2010, 10:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As we told you on Monday, the US International Trade Commission (ITC) was looking into a complaint made by Russian Alex Severinsky, who claimed that Toyota is using his patented high-voltage system ...
Russian Says He Invented Prius...
19 Jul 2010, 16:37 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / ...ok, so not the Prius per se, but the high-voltage system used by Toyota to turn the model into the most successful hybrid on the market. The Russian's name is Alex Severinsky, he's 65, ...
Prius Rules Japan for the 14th Consecutive Month
6 Jul 2010, 07:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Regardless of the troubles through which Japanese manufacturer Toyota went through in the beginning of the year, the consumer's appetite for the world's most popular hybrid stays at high l...
Toyota and EDF Launch Hybrid Vehicle Leasing Programme
21 Jun 2010, 09:50 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / The British division of Toyota, together with EDF Energy, announced today the launch of a three-year leasing programme involving 20 Prius Plug-in Hybrid cars on London’s streets from July 2010...
Toyota Mississippi Plant Revived, to Build Corolla
18 Jun 2010, 07:15 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Japanese manufacturer Toyota announced yesterday it has resumed work on the construction of the plant in Mississippi, with production here to begin in fall 2011. The carmaker says the fist model...
Toyota Prius PHEV to Test in Silicon Valley
16 Jun 2010, 07:12 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / EV charging solutions provider Coulomb announced yesterday it has signed an agreement with the Silicon Valley Leadership Group (SVLG) to install ChargePoint Networked Charging Stations for the Toyot...
Alpha, the Toyota Prius MPV, Coming in 2011
25 May 2010, 12:10 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Finally, after months of teasing, inside sources were able to confirm the name of the Toyota Prius MPV (multi-purpose vehicle). It seems the compact Prius minivan is in the final stages of developme...
Toyota Auris Hybrid Entering Production
13 May 2010, 10:38 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / This month, Toyota Manufacturing UK (TMUK) will debut the production of the Auris Hybrid, the first mass-produced hybrid car to be built in Europe. The new hybrid hatchback, which has carbon dio...
Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid Tests in Strasbourg
28 Apr 2010, 09:09 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The testing program for the Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid moves forward in Europe, with the Japanese manufacturer announcing the debut of the testing program in Strasbourg. Some 100 such vehicles will...
How to Stop a Runaway Prius, Hardcore Version
13 Apr 2010, 11:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Warning: what you are about to hear in the video below may be considered extremely offensive. No, really, extremely offensive. We mean, this is like an uncensored episode of South Park... So offensi...
Prius-Powered Hybrid Mazda, Still a Mazda...
12 Apr 2010, 10:37 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / ... or at least this is what the Japanese carmaker is promising about its first take at the hybrid market. And this despite the fact the hybrid planned by Mazda will use Toyota's Synergy Drive....
Prius Goes On, Tops Japan March Sales
7 Apr 2010, 09:37 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Despite the fact that at one point the entire Toyota world seemed to crumble all around it, the hybrid Prius never appeared to be very affected by the recall frenzy of early 2010. As it did for the ...