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Toyota Is Racing Into the Cloud Revolution


Get ready for vehicles talking to drivers, other vehicles, and infrastructure.

As cloud technology becomes an integral part of life from controlling indoor temperature to coordinating between hospitals, several automobile companies are also beginning to hop on board.

Japanese car manufacturer Toyota is the most recent jump on—and in a big way.

The carmaker announced the creation of a separate, Plano, Texas-based company, Toyota Connected on Monday. The firm will collect and analyze data…
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Toyota teams with Microsoft on connected-car venture


Toyota Motor Corp. is collaborating with Microsoft Corp. to consolidate much of the carmaker’s global research in telematics, data analytics and network security services as the auto industry expands connected-vehicle technologies.

The Toyota Connected venture will be headed by Zack Hicks, chief information officer at Toyota Motor North America, and will be based in Plano, Texas. The initial investment will be $5.5 million, the automaker said Monday.

Toyota plans to use data science…
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Toyota Chases World Endurance Championship Glory with New TS050

Toyota's TS050 will face off with the Audi R18 and Porsche 919 in the World Endurance ...

Toyota has thoroughly reworked its World Endurance Championship racer for 2016, with a revised aerodynamics package and a more advanced hybrid system to keep the TS050 ahead of Porsche and Audi's hybrid Le Mans racers.

The new TS050 is Toyota's third new car since it rejoined the World Endurance Championship in 2012. With a 2.4-liter, twin-turbo V6 coupled to an 8MJ hybrid system, the endurance racer has a combined system output of…
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Toyota announces the Prius Prime, a fancy Prius that plugs in

Given the recent launch of an all-new Toyota Prius, this one built on an entirely new platform, the followup of a plug-in version should come as no surprise. Yet the 2017 Toyota Prius Prime, launched at the New York Auto Show, doubles the electric range of its predecessor, and claims an efficiency figure of 120 miles-per-gallon -equivalent (MPGe).

For power, Toyota augments the new Prius Prime's 1.8-liter gasoline engine with an electric drive…

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Toyota Speeds Ahead on Automatic Brakes


Toyota Motor Corp. said automatic brakes would become a standard feature on nearly all the Japanese auto maker’s vehicles by the end of next year, speeding up on a pledge from most auto makers to do so by 2022.

The Japanese company on Monday said the feature—which detects imminent crashes and eventually engages brakes automatically if a driver fails to react quickly enough—would be on nearly all Toyota and luxury Lexus models…
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Toyota to take part in making wind-power hydrogen for fuel cells

Toyota Motor Corp is responding to the main criticism of fuel cell cars, that making the hydrogen for the fuel is not clean, with plans to help make the hydrogen using wind power.

Fuel cells are zero-emission, running on the power created when hydrogen combines with oxygen in the air to make water. But to have a totally clean supply chain, the hydrogen must also be cleanly made. Right now, most hydrogen is produced from…

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Toyota will expand the Prius family with a mysterious new model in New York

Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid teaser

Toyota is preparing to expand the Prius lineup with a mysterious new model. The car will be presented to the public in a little over a week during the New York Auto Show.

The Japanese car maker’s teaser image is accompanied by a brief blurb that explains that the car scheduled to debut in New York is “the next mechanical marvel in the Prius lineup.” That’s certainly not a lot to go on…
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Toyota's popular Highlander Renewed


When it comes to the deployment of new technologies in its mainstream, high-volume models, Toyota is one of the most conservative automakers out there. The late-adoption strategy seems to work well for the Japanese brand, however, as it allows it to decide whether such additions are truly worthwhile for its customers. It also helps it to develop and refine such technologies to a high degree before introduction, an approach that helps it to avoid reputation-staining…
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Designed with mom in mind, 2016 Toyota Highlander Hybrid

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Redesigned a couple of years ago, the new Highlander continues to be one of our favorite rides. Every time we have the opportunity to get behind the wheel its amazing features, we had forgotten about, continue to impress us at every turn. This is however our first experience with the Hybrid version of the vehicle that does indeed include all the other great features along with outstanding mileage numbers.

Since the Highlander really was designed…
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Toyota create ‘crash test cyclist’ to help develop driver-less cars

The car maker has built a cycling crash test dummy in order to assess the radar technology on the driver-less cars it's developing.




The world’s biggest car manufacturer has built one of the world’s first crash test bicycles, complete with a crash test cyclist. The new bike is like a jigsaw. It has pieces made of a shatter-resistant material. They break apart in a collision and can be slotted back together quickly…
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