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Toyota Supporting Red Cross in Relief Efforts


As communities across the South and the Great Plains face a barrage of natural disasters, Toyota is supporting the American Red Cross’s critical relief efforts in affected regions, such as North Texas and the Dallas area, including Plano, which is the site of the company’s new North American headquarters. Toyota’s support is also advancing relief efforts in other hard-hit regions where it operates, such as Alabama, Mississippi and Missouri. As a member…
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Toyota Takes its Green Initiatives Seriously: Here’s Why

When you think of the automobile industry, your mind probably doesn’t automatically go to “green” or “environmentally friendly,” does it? Maybe it should …

Toyota recently named a top priority as “global warming,” and is looking at five specific areas in which to improve: carbon, water, outreach, biodiversity, and materials. The company has just released the Toyota Miria, a completely carbon-fueled car which emits only water vapor as exhaust.

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Toyota Pioneering Efforts Towards Hydrogen-Fuel Cell Vehicles Over Gasoline/Electric Powered Hybrids

Toyota to Phase Out Gas-Powered Vehicles, Doubling Down on Hydrogen

by Paul A. Eisenstein


Toyota Motor Co. wants to virtually eliminate gasoline-powered vehicles from its fleet by 2050, and is betting that hydrogen cars, rather than electric vehicles, will be the long-term answer.



The Japanese maker recently introduced the Mirai, its first retail fuel-cell vehicle, and though sales have so far been measured in the hundreds…
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Marty McFly Returns -- In a Toyota?

At Marion Toyota, we've received insider information regarding Marty McFly's impending arrival in the future... which is now the present. Very confusing. Either way, in Back to the Future II, when Marty travels thirty years from 1985, he arrives on October 21, 2015. We can't wait to find out what Toyota has brewing for this date. We have a feeling it will be nothing short of elevating. Check out the video below for a sneak peek!

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Self-Driving Technology Ready For 2020 Release

Toyota unveiled its vision for self-driving cars in a challenge to other automakers as well as industry newcomer Google Inc., promising to start selling such vehicles in Japan by 2020.

Toyota Motor Corp. demonstrated on a regular Tokyo freeway Tuesday what it called the "mobility teammate concept," meaning the driver and the artificial intelligence in a sensor-packed car work together as a team.

In the demonstration...
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