Ahead of the "Japan Mobility Show," the country's largest auto exhibition which begins next week, Toyota Motor Corporation unveiled cutting-edge technology that included a lunar exploration vehicle.
Toyota said Thursday it will adopt Tesla's charging standards for its electric vehicles to be sold in North America from 2025, joining a growing list of automakers utilizing the industry giant's quick charging network. (Japan Times)
Mitsubishi Motors Corporation is expected to withdraw from automobile production in China, with a decision likely at an upcoming board of directors meeting.
Japan's Toyota Motor has unveiled the first ever SUV edition of its Century luxury model. (NHK)
The government has decided to double its current EV charger installation target to 300,000 by 2030. With EVs growing in popularity around the world, the government hopes the increased availability of charging stations across the nation will encourage a similar trend in Japan. (The Japan News)
Toyota Motor resumed operations at 12 of its factories in Japan on Wednesday morning. (NHK)
Toyota, the world’s biggest carmaker, has halted operations at most of its assembly plants in Japan following a system malfunction. (Al Jazeera)
In this video, we take a look at a masterpiece of the kabuki and bunraku repertoire, Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki ("Chronicle of the Battle of Ichi-no-Tani"), first staged for the puppet theatre in the 12th lunar month of 1751, at the Toyotake-za theatre in Osaka. (Kabuki In-Depth)
Elliot takes a spin in Toyota's Japan-only electric kei car: the C+Pod. Could this tiny EV be the affordable electric car we've been waiting for, and a sign that Toyota might be more serious about electric that it first appeared? (Fully Charged Show)
Toyota Motor says it has posted record sales and profits for the April-to-June quarter. (NHK)
Japan's Toyota Motor has unveiled its new Land Cruiser models, including the series' first hybrid type. The move reflects the global auto giant's carbon neutrality strategy to avoid solely focusing on electric vehicles. (NHK)
Japan’s top carmakers suffered a huge setback in China in the first half, with sales plunging nearly 20 per cent, their biggest drop in the world’s largest car market since 2012, where the shift to electric vehicles (EVs) is accelerating. (South China Morning Post)
In this episode of the FRAME, we will have a look at 4 iconic cars that have pushed forward the electric vehicle sector in the last decades. We will discover all the secrets and characteristics of the manufacturing process of the Toyota Prius, the Hyundai IONIQ 5, the Nissan Leaf, and the Mini Electric. (FRAME)
Toyota is the pioneer of car production around the world. It is the most-sold car globally, and for a good reason. (newsonjapan.com)
Toyota plans to make an all solid-state battery as part of its ambitious plans for battery electric vehicles, the company said Tuesday, amid mounting criticism Japan’s top automaker needs to do more to fight climate change. (AP)
Japan's benchmark Nikkei gauge surged on Tuesday, closing over 30,000 for the first time in 33 years, led by technology shares on expectations of a flood of investment in chip-related companies. (marketscreener.com)
Toyota Motor Corp on Saturday entered a racing car powered by liquid hydrogen into a 24-hour endurance race in central Japan, making it the first such car in the world to participate in an official race. (Japan Today)
Japan, which missed out on the Web2 revolution -- by failing to produce its own Meta, Google, Amazon, and Alibaba -- is now looking to regain its economic prowess by embracing the burgeoning crypto and Web3 industry. (Crypto Daily)
Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) said on Friday the vehicle data of 2.15 million users in Japan, or almost the entire customer base who signed up for its main cloud service platforms since 2012, had been publicly available for a decade due to human error. (Reuters)
Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday its net profit fell 14.0 percent in fiscal 2022 from the previous year to 2.45 trillion yen ($18 billion), the first decline in four years due to rising material costs. (Kyodo)
Toyota Motor will accelerate its decarbonization drive to cut the amount of carbon dioxide emissions per new car sold around the world by more than 50% from the 2019 level by 2035, President and CEO Koji Sato said. (Nikkei)
The buzz at Auto Shanghai when it opened Tuesday was the slew of electric vehicles being showcased. (The Japan News)
Toyota Motor has unveiled its new strategy for electric vehicles. The auto giant says it now aims to introduce 10 new models by 2026 and sell 1.5 million units a year. (NHK)
Toyota Motor plans to discontinue sales of the Camry sedan in the Japanese market, focusing on countries where the automaker's 43-year-old flagship model remains popular. (Nikkei)
Shoichiro Toyoda, who as a son of the company’s founder oversaw Toyota’s expansion into international markets has died. He was 97. (AP)