Toyota is by far and away the biggest hybrid maker on the world market, the unstoppable and genre defining Prius has been a best seller since it’s release in 1997 and in times of soaring oil prices its sale streak doesn’t look set to slow down. Toyota has now sold 3.03 million hybrids between 1997 and Feb-2011 and plans to release 10 new hybrid models by the end of 2012. Lanjut →
Toyota has announced they’ll be recalling repairing 650,000 Priuses sold between 2004 and 2007 due to a faulty coolant pump. The worlds largest carmaker has been plagued with recalls over the past 12 months and is resisting calling this latest snafu a recall, instead referring to it as a “customer satisfaction” program. Lanjut →
Toyota is teasing an image of a new Prius due in January at the Detroit Autoshow, this won’t replace the current Prius but will expand it into a multi-car brand like Toyota’s luxury offshoot Lexus. All we know at the moment is that it’ll be bigger and better than the current Prius and will fill the MPV (multi purpose vehicle) role in the new Prius line of vehicles. Lanjut →
Google has a small team of engineers working on the development of fully robotic, autonomous vehicles and although this might sound like pie-in-the-sky future tech, but they have already clocked 140,000 miles in the cars on California’s public roads. The program is led by Sebastian Thrun, the director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and co-inventor of Google’s “Street View” mapping service.
Toyota announced today that Prius sales surpassed the 2,000,000 mark by the end of September 2010 with the total sales figure being close to 2,012,000. The Prius has been on sale since 1997, a time when many people didn’t know what a hybrid car was, and is widely credited as being the “godfather” of the hybrid market. Lanjut →
