You are viewing all posts for categories: toyota technology

An Inside Look at Toyota Operations Technology


On Wednesday, three Toyota Motor North America executives joined IndustryWeek’s Manufacturing & Technology Conference to talk about the role IT plays in the Toyota Production System and the company’s outlook on automation and the Internet of Things.

First, Jeff Moore, Senior Vice President, Unit Plants/Lexus Leader shared some statistics. Toyota has six vehicle assembly plants in the U.S., with 14 plants overall in North America. Some 365,000 U.S. jobs have…
Read More
Categories: ,

PRESS RELEASE- Charging Ahead

Toyota Scientists Make Breakthrough on Safer, Smarter Batteries



ANN ARBOR, Mich. (May 4, 2016) -- For anyone (i.e. everyone) who's ever panicked when their mobile device chirped, "low battery," the future could be far less stressful, thanks to the advanced battery research of scientists at the Toyota Research Institute of North America (TRINA). A new breakthrough involving magnesium batteries may soon open the doors for smaller, longer-lasting batteries for everything from cars to cell…
Read More
Categories: , , ,

Toyota to pioneer use of biosynthetic rubber in engine and drive system hoses

toyotaimages

Next month, Toyota will become the world’s first automaker to use biohydrin, a newly-developed biosynthetic rubber product, in engine and drive system hoses. Central Kentucky is the primary location for the production of the Toyota Camry, the brand’s most popular model.

Jointly developed by Toyota, Zeon Corporation, and Sumitomo Riko Co., Ltd., biohydrin rubber is manufactured using plant-derived bio-materials instead of epichlorohydrin, a commonly-used epoxy compound. Since plants absorb CO2 from the atmosphere…
Read More
Categories: , ,

IT'S BEEN REAL (WEIRD)

SCION LEAVES WITH AN IMPORTANT, LASTING LEGACY
It’s Been Real (Weird)

Scion began at the dawn of a new century, as a new effort to understand a brand new generation.

“We were looking at Generation Y. Back then, they were too young to buy cars,” says Jim Lentz, the brand’s first vice president and now Toyota Motor North America CEO. “We knew that we needed to understand that generation really well or we were going to be challenged…
Read More
Categories: , ,

Ready For Prime Time

Toyota Takes The Wraps Off Its Most Advanced And Fuel-Efficient Plug-In Hybrid Ever
Ready for Prime Time

Twenty-two miles. When you’re driving a car, that doesn’t sound like much. But when that vehicle is the 2017 Prius Prime, it could fundamentally change the way you get around on a day-to-day basis.

That’s because those 22 miles represent what Toyota projects as the estimated electric-only range of this next-generation plug-in hybrid—unveiled at the New York International…
Read More
Categories: , , , , ,

TURNING UP THE HEAT: 2017 HIGHLANDER

So much more than a standard mid-cycle refresh
Turning up the Heat

Fueled in part by low gas prices, SUV's have been hot hot hot these days---and Highlander is more than keeping pace. Sales of Toyota's midsize SUV were up 11% through the first 2 months of 2016 and posted their best February ever.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Right?

Not exactly. Toyota, never one to rest on its laurels, is readying an…
Read More
Categories: , , , , , , ,

Toyota collaborates on ‘pay how you drive’ insurance

Toyota and Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance have established a joint venture telematics car insurance services company. The automaker’s new Plano-based in-car technology company will take the lead in developing products that analyze drivers’ behaviors and patterns and set their auto insurance rates accordingly.

The new insurance company will be called Toyota Insurance Management Solutions USA LLC, or TIMS. TIMS is a joint venture of Toyota Motor Corp., Toyota Financial Services Corp., and Aioi Nissay…
Read More
Categories: , , ,

Toyota's uBox concept was designed for the entrepreneurial Generation Z



Millennials make the headlines these days. Whether it’s about their job prospects in the 21st century economy, or how they’re changing the future in some way or another. However, there’s another generation that industry is paying attention to, and that’s Generation Z.

Just like the fast-paced youth culture, the automotive industry is seeing drastic changes. Some predict driverless cars will hit the market as soon as 2020. Whether that prediction will…
Read More
Categories: , , , , , ,

Toyota and Nissan Are Teaming Up on Intelligent Maps


A new age of exploration is underway.

Japan’s government and auto giants Toyota and Nissan will join in an effort to develop intelligent maps by 2018, the Nikkei daily said, as competition heats up to improve the technology key for autonomous driving.

Japanese automakers, map-making companies, and the government will get together to generate standardized intelligent maps, with plans to incorporate driving data gathered by the automakers, the paper said on Sunday.

A Toyota…
Read More
Categories: ,

Toyota Wants Autonomous 'Guardian Angel' To Help Drivers

Latest Consumer Technology Products On Display At CES 2016

Some of the leading companies in the race to develop self-driving cars have insisted the quickest path toward an autonomous future is to eliminate human involvement in the driving process. Toyota executives see the benefit of keeping drivers around.

Gill Pratt, the company's top research executive, said Thursday that Toyota plans to pursue two parallel paths toward autonomy, one that would remove motorists from the driving equation and a semi-autonomous approach that would further…
Read More
Categories: , , ,

Search Blog

Subscribe to Our Blog

Popular Tags

Marion Toyota New Toyota Models 2025 Toyota Models toyota 2025 Toyota Inventory Toyota Suv Video Toyota 2026 Toyota Inventory 2016 2026 Toyota Models Toyota Tundra Hybrid New Toyota Models 2016 toyota models 2024 Toyota Inventory Camry New Toyota Toyota Camry 2024 Toyota Models Toyota Camry 2016 models sedan 2018 Toyota Camry Toyota toyota corolla mobility Technology Toyota Camry Crossover