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Early this month eight U.S. states and five countries pledged to eliminate the sale of new gasoline and diesel cars by 2050.

In a statement made Dec. 3, 2015 at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP21) in Paris, California along with Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Vermont pledged to ban the sale of new cars powered primarily by gasoline and diesel fuels by 2050.

“Thirteen North American and…

From Bloomberg Business:
One year into its Nascar Sprint Cup experiment, Toyota took new driver Kyle Busch on a tour of its offices and plants. Not in Honshu or Hokkaido, but rather California, Texas and Kentucky.

"They showed us just how American the company is," said Busch, who last week drove his No. 18 Camry to the Sprint Cup Series championship -– the biggest victory for Busch in his 11-year racing career and the biggest Nascar…

Toyota officials have unveiled a planned partnership with a Kentucky landfill that will generate plant electricity from the landfill's gas.  The plan is expected to begin later this month.  Electricity generated by the project will be enough to produce about 10,000 vehicles per year at the Georgetown, Kentucky manufacturing plant. 

Having a Landfill operator working directly with a manufacturer on this type of project has never before been accomplished in the United States…

From Financial Times
FT.com
Toyota has unveiled plans to set up a separate robotics unit in Silicon Valley, as the world’s biggest carmaker seeks to fight back against incursions into the sector by Californian tech groups Tesla, Google and Apple.

The Japanese company said it would hire 200 employees and invest $1bn to set up the Toyota Research Institute, which will focus on developing artificial intelligence and robotics.

Carmakers have been moving into…

Agence France-Presse
Thu, 2015-10-29 12:44

TOKYO — Toyota’s top executive has offered some advice to German rival Volkswagen as it wrestles with a huge emissions scandal: Don’t focus on being No. 1.

Akio Toyoda’s comments at the Tokyo Motor Show come as the automakers are locked in a neck-and-neck race for the title of world’s biggest automaker this year, with the Japanese giant running slightly ahead.

But Toyota has said it…

TOKYO (Bloomberg) -- Toyota Motor Corp.'s second-biggest supplier said the carmaker's goal to almost eliminate conventional combustion engines by 2050 is a wake-up call for parts makers to transform their businesses.

Yasumori Ihara, who ran Toyota's emerging markets operations before becoming Aisin Seiki Co.'s president in June, said the automaker's objective means components makers need to prepare to supply for cars that will be predominantly hybrids or fuel-cell vehicles.

"We need…