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What's New In The 2019 Prius?

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One of Toyota’s best-selling models and the most recognizable hybrid in the country is back with the 2019 Toyota Prius! For years, the Toyota Prius has been raising the bar when it comes to hybrid cars, but what can drivers expect in 2019? What’s new in the 2019 Toyota Prius? 

Although the Prius may be Toyota’s most popular and famous model, Toyota is never one to rest on its laurels, making sure…

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2019 Toyota Prius AWD- e Brings Better Traction To The Brand's Signature Hybrid


The popularity of the Toyota Prius is shrinking faster than the polar icecaps. In 2016, sales dipped below 100,000 units for the first time since 2004. Last year they fell 33 percent. With 2018 drawing to a close, Prius sales are down another 23 percent. Even with the arrival in January of the new 2019 AWD-e model—which Toyota says should be good for a quarter of next year's sales—the company's…
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Toyota and FuelCell Energy Plan Massive Hydrogen Fuel Project

Toyota and FuelCell Energy announced plans for a megawatt-scale carbonate fuel cell power generation plant at the Port of Long Beach. As part of the deal, FuelCell Energy will build the plant, which will supply hydrogen for Toyota’s fuel cell electric vehicles and heavy-duty fuel cell Class 8 proof of concept truck, the companies say.

The new Tri-Gen facility at the Port of Long Beach will use bio-waste sourced from the state’s agricultural…

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It's Electric: Toyota to Bring First Hybrid Powertrain Production to U.S.

It's Electric: Toyota to Bring First Hybrid Powertrain Production to U.S.

Toyota just upped the stakes to remain the top manufacturer of hybrid vehicles worldwide with a $373.8 million investment in five U.S. manufacturing plants that will support production of its first American-made hybrid powertrain and to implement Toyota’s New Global Architecture (TNGA) at its Alabama plant. Each of the projects is scheduled to begin this year and all should be operational by 2020.

The investments will include adding new production of hybrid…
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Toyota Creates Amazing Electric Truck Prototypes That Could One Day Clean Up Marion Highways

Trucks are something we all have to deal with when commuting down I-57. We don't mean pickup trucks, like the Tundra or Tacoma—we mean semi trucks. Tractor trailers. Big-rigs.

They groan along the highway like slow-moving, yet terrifyingly massive whales, blowing smoke instead of water out of their tops.

Thanks to Toyota's "Project Portal," one day, things could be different.

In the wake of launching the hydrogen-fueled Toyota Mirai, the...

 

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Toyota and Shell One Step Closer to a Hydrogen Refueling Network in California


The California Energy Commission (CEC) posted a Notice of Proposed Award (NOPA) outlining subsidies to support hydrogen refueling infrastructure in California. Shell, in partnership with Toyota, will be considered for the installation of hydrogen refueling equipment into seven retail stations in the state of California and an award of $16,362,500 to develop those stations.  
 
The NOPA marks an important step forward in California’s aspiration for broader deployment of low-carbon fuels and vehicle…
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How You Can Help Keep the Giant Panda from Becoming Endangered Again

The Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) has been in trouble for longer than most of us can remember. It was listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List in 1990, but the species has suffered from hunting and habitat loss as early as the 1930s. At one point, the number of pandas in the wild dwindled to about 1,000.

Though many people are convinced the Giant Panda is doomed for extinction thanks…

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