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...Trouble for Toyota?...
...When customers started to take deliveries of Tesla's sports car the next year, half a million was also the number of Prius battery packs Toyota's factory could churn out annually....
...Hybrid cars are losing market share on dealer lots, with sales of the Toyota Prius down 14 per cent between January-April 2016 and 2015, according to WardsAuto....
...In an industry synonymous with Porsches and Ferraris, his preferred means of transport is a Toyota Prius....
...Toyota much prefers the economics of hybrid technologies, of which its Prius models are the US brand leaders....
...These have turned Toyota’s Prius petrol-electric hybrid from a niche product for greens into Japan’s best-selling passenger car....
...At the Detroit Auto Show in January 2007, GM announced it was developing the Volt, meant to wrest clean-car leadership from Toyota....
...In a bold act for a city often known as the world’s oil capital, the mayor has even bought a small fleet of 25 all-electric Nissan Leaf cars and 15 Toyota Prius hybrids, and encouraged the installation of...
...The vehicles being recalled are mostly models sold only in Japan, as well as the petrol versions of Toyota’s Avensis family car made in 2000-08 and of its Lexus luxury marque’s IS 250 model made in 2007-...
...Even so, its market share, at 8.9 per cent, remains far below 2007’s 12.9 per cent. Toyota faces one of the biggest challenges....
...Next door to Imasen’s operation is a Toyota plant that builds hybrid drive systems for the Prius and other petrol-electric cars....
...Toyota is launching its Entune infotainment system with the new Prius V hybrid car this year....
...Toyota, the industry’s largest producer, thinks that pure electric cars will never be more than urban runabouts, and is investing primarily in hybrids like its Prius, which have a combustion engine for long...
...More than 8,000 Prius hybrids are meanwhile subject to “customer service action”, an intervention below a full safety recall, to fix a braking system fault....
...Construction of a plant in Mississippi to assemble the Prius hybrid hatchback has been suspended....
...system of its Prius hybrid....
...hybrid vehicles, including the flagship Prius....
...Among his stable of companies he also counts wind farm builder, Japan Wind Development, Tamura, an electronic device maker that makes parts for Toyota’s Prius hybrid, and Nichicon, one of the world’s leading...
...In 2006, Jonny Goldstone and Tom Pakenham founded greentomatocars, a London-based private hire car service, which uses a fleet of 120 environmentally friendly Toyota Prius cars....
...From the cobalt in mobile phone batteries to the neodymium in Toyota’s hybrid Prius cars, “minor metals and rare earths are involved in every aspect of modern life”, says Guy Darby of the London-based Minor...
...It was the BYD of 2007....
...He came up with the idea while monitoring the petrol consumption of his Toyota Prius, and wondered why there wasn’t a similar interface for his home....
...The new GM cannot rely, as in the past, on US light trucks and sports utility vehicles, in effect ceding the passenger car market to Asian companies such as Toyota and Honda....
...Six months later, pump prices are at about $1.67 and Prius sales were down nearly half from July – a bigger drop than Toyota saw for light trucks....
...Toyota is due to unveil a new 2010 model of the Prius at next month’s North American International Auto Show in Detroit....
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