The automobile of the future will need to focus on the needs of urban drivers including smaller frames, better handling and higher fuel economy. Toyota’s European Design & Development (ED2) team took a swing at urban vehicle design with the recently presented ME.WE concept EV. This two-door compact EV was [...]

Toyota’s vision of the future is not only trained on hybrid and electric vehicles that replace family cars. The automaker is also concerned about urban mobility especially as commuters from New York City to Tokyo face congested streets. A personal mobility vehicle (PMV) concept called the i-Road might be Toyota’s [...]

Japanese truck manufacturer Hino introduced a concept all-electric delivery vehicle during the Tokyo Motor Show in 2011. This commercial vehicle allowed Hino to gauge interest from parcel companies and small businesses in short-range trucks powered by electricity. The next stage in Hino’s development of this concept is the EV Truck [...]

BMW and Toyota are reportedly close to locking down a deal in which BMW will license future fuel cell technology from Toyota. According to Nikkei, as reported by Reuters, “BMW will use the technology to build a prototype vehicle by 2015, with plans for a market release around 2020.” Reuters reports: The [...]

Ten cars have been nominated for the inaugural Green Car Technology Award™ for Green Car Journal—an award that honors fuel efficient vehicles. The winners will be announced at the 2013 Washington Auto Show on January 31st. The auto show will also feature clean fuel efficient vehicles and advanced technologies. “The Washington Auto Show® [...]

Every year, the automotive industry’s most respected car value resource—Kelley Blue Book or KBB for short—announces the winners of their Resale Value Awards. The Resale Value Awards project which vehicles from the upcoming model year will retain the most of their value five years down the road. Winners across a [...]

Toyota is riding on the back of some really bad karma lately—and that’s an understatement.  After the whole unintended acceleration situation back in 2009 and 2010 that claimed the lives of far too many, the automaker’s home country of Japan suffered through a number of disasters, both of the nuclear [...]

With the eventual exhaustion of traditional fossil fuels in sight, more and more car manufacturers are turning to alternative methods for fueling vehicles. Traditional fossil fuels also place a large strain on the quality of our environment, which many people want to stop as soon as possible. Car manufacturers are [...]

More and more people are convinced that pollution has a detrimental impact that directly affects global warming. This leads many individuals to take on a ‘green’ lifestyle. There are many ways to accomplish this, such as reducing electricity used, recycling and using environmentally friendly modes of transportation. Parents can help [...]

At a recent press conference in Tokyo, Toyota’s vice chairman and head of research and development, Takeshi Uchiyamada, announced that the Japanese automaker has plans to introduce 21 new or significantly redesigned hybrid vehicles before 2015 comes to a close.  Though some are saying that these plans are optimistic at [...]