TOKYO, Mar 8, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – TOYOTA GAZOO Racing will defend its FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) titles with an updated GR010 HYBRID Hypercar, which begins with the 1000 Miles of Sebring in Florida next week where Fujitsu Limited and JFE Steel will join as partners. A successful debut season in... » read more
Toyota City, Japan, Mar 4, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) has learned that the actual fuel economy performance of the Toyota Coaster small bus featuring the N04C engine (with a urea selective catalytic reduction system) developed and manufactured by Hino Motors, Ltd. (Hino) and subject to Japan’s 2016 exhaust... » read more
TOKYO, Feb 28, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Isuzu Motors Limited (Isuzu), Hino Motors, Ltd. (Hino), and Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) announced today that they plan to strengthen their efforts to electrify buses toward the achievement of carbon neutrality by 2050. In collaboration with Commercial Japan Partnership Technologies Co., Ltd., which works to... » read more
Toyota City, Japan, Feb 7, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Fukuoka City and Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) have signed a partnership agreement aiming for the early realization of a hydrogen society. They will work closely with Commercial Partnership Technologies Corporation (CJPT), which works on commercial projects, to promote a wide range of collaborative... » read more
TOKYO, Jan 17, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – TOYOTA GAZOO Racing’s Nasser Al-Attiyah and co-driver Mathieu Baumel brought their GR DKR Hilux T1+ home safely on the final stage of the 2022 Dakar Rally to win the event overall by 27min 46sec. This is the Qatari driver’s second victory for the team, having... » read more
Toyota City, Japan, Dec 23, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) announced today that it will expand sales of the “C+pod” ultra-compact battery electric vehicle (BEV) to all corporate and municipal customers, and now the general public as well, from December 23. The vehicle was launched for select corporate and... » read more
TOKYO, Dec 14, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – On December 14, Toyota held a press briefing on its battery EV (BEV) strategies and revealed 16 Toyota and Lexus BEV models that it is readying for market launch, including the all-new Toyota bZ4X due next year. During his presentation, President Akio Toyoda announced that... » read more
Toyota City, Japan, Dec 7, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Toyota Motor North America announced today that North Carolina Greensboro-Randolph Megasite has been chosen as the location for Toyota’s new $1.29 billion automotive battery manufacturing plant, to be named, Toyota Battery Manufacturing, North Carolina (TBMNC). When it comes online in 2025, TBMNC will... » read more
HIROSHIMA, Japan, Dec 6, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Mazda Motor Corporation today announced that it will introduce the Mazda2 Hybrid in Europe from the spring of 2022. The Mazda2 Hybrid will be an OEM model supplied by Toyota Motor Europe, a wholly owned subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation, and will be added... » read more
Toyota City, Japan, Oct 29, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Toyota has announced the details of bZ4X, its all-new model BEV(1). bZ4X (Prototype vehicle) Toyota’s Approach to Carbon Neutrality is “Practical and Sustainable” Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) is striving to resolve various issues to realize a sustainable society, with the aim of passing... » read more
Toyota City, Japan, Oct 28, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – TOYOTA GAZOO Racing (TGR) commenced sales of the all-new GR86 at GR Garage and Toyota dealers nationwide, on October 28. RZ (6-speed MT) The GR86 was jointly developed with Subaru Corporation (Subaru). In September 2019, Toyota and Subaru entered into a new business... » read more
Toyota City, Japan, Oct 12, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota), and Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc. (Toyota CRDL) announced today that they have commenced discussions on joint research aimed at accelerating development and implementing advanced technologies in the field... » read more
Toyota City, Japan, Oct 1, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) announced today that it will release the C+walk T, a standing-type model in the new C+walk walking-area(1) mobility series. The C+walk T(2) will go on sale at Toyota automobile dealers and offered at rental and leasing stores from October... » read more
Toyota City, Japan, Sep 22, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – TOYOTA GAZOO Racing will be entering a four-crew team in the upcoming Dakar Rally, which is set to take place in Saudi Arabia from January 2nd, 2022. As in 2021, the works team will be spear-headed by Nasser Al-Attiyah and navigator Mathieu Baumel.... » read more
TOKYO, Sep 13, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – TOYOTA GAZOO Racing World Rally Team’s Kalle Rovanpera has claimed a second outstanding FIA World Rally Championship victory in three events after conquering the legendary Acropolis Rally in Greece at his first attempt. Sebastien Ogier completed a double podium finish for the Toyota Yaris WRC,... » read more
Toyota City, Japan, Aug 23, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – TOYOTA GAZOO Racing earned a historic and dramatic fourth consecutive Le Mans 24 Hours victory, overcoming adversity to become the first Hypercar winners at the Circuit de la Sarthe. Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi and Jose Maria Lopez, who won the long-awaited first victoryThe... » read more
Toyota City, Japan, Aug 6, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – The TOYOTA GAZOO Racing World Rally Team will target another successful showing on unfamiliar roads when the Toyota Yaris WRC makes its first appearance at a classic event on the European rally calendar: Ypres Rally Belgium (August 13-15). 2021 Yaris WRC Round seven... » read more
Toyota City, Japan, Aug 2, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – SPARX Group Co., Ltd. (“SPARX”) has established the Mirai Creation Fund III (“Fund III”). The two seed LPs for the Mirai Creation Fund II (“Fund II”), Toyota Motor Corporation (“Toyota”) and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (“SMBC”), are to participate again as initial investors... » read more
Toyota City, Japan, Aug 2, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) announced that it has launched its new Land Cruiser today, August 2. Supporting lives, livelihoods, and more fulfilling lifestyles all over the world Launched in August 1951, the Land Cruiser was originally known as the “Toyota BJ,” a four-wheel-drive... » read more
Toyota City, Japan, Aug 2, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) announced today that it will enter a vehicle equipped with a developmental hydrogen-powered engine at the five-hour-long Super Taikyu Race in Autopolis, which takes place from July 31 to August 1, 2021. The hydrogen engine is being developed as... » read more