Look back at the history of Toyota, starting with the birth of founder Sakichi Toyoda. It traces the company's development through 1937 from when Toyota Motor Corporation was established to when the 2 millionth Prius hybrid was sold.
DETROIT - Although still must solve the problem of recall, Toyota did not join the program disrupted. In fact, Toyota Motor Corp. will introduce six new hybrid vehicles and a gasoline-electric in 2012. This news is delivered by head of global product development engineers and Toyota Motor Corp. or TMC, Takeshi Uchiyamada, in a presentation in Detroit, Monday (09/13/2010).
According Uchiyamada, Toyota will also introduce electric RAV4 SUV cooperation between them and Tesla Motors Inc.. Manufacturers hope that this purely electric car become the ranks of the overall plan in the next decade, when Toyota focus on hybrid and plug-in electric car.
Uchiyamada explained, of the six hybrids, two from the Lexus and the four models, of which there is a hybrid like the Prius, and it is the gasoline engine but also low-emissions. "Hybrids are here later on an entirely new, not like the marketed generation," said Uchiyamada.
Following the development of battery technology today, according to Uchiyamada, Toyota do not have all the product line-ups and it must be hybrids or plug-ins. It would be better if there is a transition to point to the vehicle electronics.
Toyota will start selling the Prius plug-ins, by which it are not included in the six new models, in the spring of 2012. Not only that, in 2015, TMC was also ready to market hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles powered electricity.
