Toyota Motor Corp.
Toyota ramps up hydrogen fuel cell production for trucks in Kentucky in December and is already planning a new and improved next-generation system that will debut in 2026.
Toyota Motor Corp. suspended production at 14 plants in Japan because of a suspected cyberattack on Kojima Industries Corp., one of its plastic part suppliers.
Toyota Motor North America is planning to build a $1.3 billion battery plant near the small town of Liberty, N.C., where it will eventually produce enough lithium ion batteries to power up to 1.2 million vehicles per year.
Toyota has unveiled a family of concept cars for its future electric vehicles, ones that will shift design cues to new areas of the car, opening the potential for a different material mix.
Automotive supplier Toyoda Gosei Co. Ltd. is planning to establish a satellite engineering and sales office in Dublin, Ohio, to speed up its product development process in the U.S.
"People want vehicles with range of 350 or 400 miles, and they want to be able to refuel in a relatively short period of time. Once technology can do that ... I think you'll see people even go electric here."
Japanese auto parts supplier DaikyoNishikawa Corp. is planning to open its first U.S. plant in Huntsville, Ala., on the site of Mazda Toyota Manufacturing U.S.A. Inc.
Automotive executives and head designers at this year's North American International Auto Show mostly talked in circles when asked about the plastic components gleaming on their recently unveiled vehicles. But there was at least one material that fell from their lips as easily as the words steel or aluminum: carbon fiber.
To gear up for its move into electric vehicles, Toyota plans to make its own next-generation batteries in a new partnership with electronics giant Panasonic, and even sell them to other automakers.
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