Archive for the ‘Toyota Hybrid’ Category
Portland Car Dealer: Toyota to Develop Longer Lasting Magnesium Batteries
In an effort to grow the range for electric cars, Toyota has started to develop battery packs with magnesium-sulfur components, as reported in Motor Trend Magazine.
Magnesium-sulfate batteries can potentially hold twice as much power as today’s best lithium-ion cells already being used in some plug-in and electric car hybrids, making it a more competitive battery for future vehicles.
Battery life has been one of the few drawbacks to the plug-in electric car market, getting anywhere from 35 to 73 miles of travel, compared to non-electric cars which can easily get up to 100 or more miles per tank and are easily refueled. The project is being headed by Jeffrey Makarewicz, at Toyota’s technical center just outside of Ann Arbor, Michigan. He says Toyota could have a longer-range battery in as soon as ten years.
In addition to Magnesium-sulfate, Toyota is playing around with other advanced battery types (including batteries with aluminum and calcium components), all in the hopes of providing consumer-friendly range and quick recharge times.
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Portland Toyota Dealer: Drive Away with a 2010 Toyota Prius Hybrid!
Yes, it’s 2011 and that means great deals on any 2010 Toyota Prius. At Gresham Toyota, we’ve got internet specials on these innovative hybrid vehicles and more!
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Toyota News: Toyota Sponsors “Ideas For Good” Campaign
Toyota Motor Company is running a campaign that invites consumers to come up to come up with ideas for using automotive technologies outside the realm of cars and trucks, shares an interesting NY Times article.
Encouraging customers to submit ideas that springboard from technologies like the advanced parking guidance system available on the Toyota Prius. Toyota Motors has pledged to bring to fruition the five best ideas submitted by consumers.
Toyota’s goal is “showing how we can improve the quality of life” [of consumers] said Bill Fay, group vice president for marketing at Toyota Motor Sales USA in Torrance, Calif.
Consumers can go to a section of the Toyota Web site to learn more and will have until Feb. 28 to submit their ideas, which will then be judged by an independent panel.
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Toyota News: Toyota Supports Tree Campus USA
The Arbor Day Foundation began Tree Campus USA with support from Toyota to honor college campuses for engaging the campus community in environmental stewardship. Since its inception, Tree Campus USA has been supported by $1.3 million in grants from Toyota shares an interesting toyota.com article.
To celebrate the program’s success, the Arbor Day Foundation and Toyota Tree-planting events were held this fall with students and volunteers on six college campuses.
In our view, there’s no better way to celebrate the achievements of Tree Campus USA than to plant trees, students [are] helping the next generation of tree planters see firsthand that a landscape can be transformed and a community improved by the simple act of giving back to the earth. – John Rosenow, chief executive and founder of the Arbor Day Foundation.
By meeting five core standards of tree care and community engagement, schools can be selected to become a Tree Campus USA community.
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Fuel Efficient Cars: Toyota Motors Pioneers Use Of Laptop Batteries in EV Cars
Toyota Motors in partnership with Tesla is testing lithium-ion batteries originally designed for laptops in the next generation of Electric Vehicles reports an interesting Delaware online article. Costing less than the bigger car only batteries, these batteries could be the key to reducing new EV car sticker prices.
It may lead to the total component cost of an electric car getting lower than a gasoline car… and more likelihood that retail prices of electric cars will drop. – Koji Endo, a Tokyo-based analyst at Advanced Research Japan.
A cluster of 6,831 Panasonic battery cells helps to power Tesla’s super powerful high end roadster which boasts a 245 mile per charge range.
The use of rechargeable consumer electronics batteries may help cut manufacturing costs and sticker prices, which led manufacturers of lithium-ion laptops batteries to project tripled sales over the next decade.
Sales of EV and hybrid cars, including the new plug-in cars will total over 900,000 vehicles in 2011.
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