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The new 2023 Toyota Prius plays up power, not fuel economy

Toyota is beefing up the fuel-sipping Prius hybrid, adding more power and quicker acceleration to appeal to a wider range of car shoppers in an increasingly crowded market. The car created — and

Toyota is building a tiny utopian prototype city filled with people, robots and AI

Toyota researches and tests robotics, material science, automated driving and alternative fuel technology in labs all around the world. Now the automaker is trying a new and far more ambitious project

The road ahead for Waymo, AV engineering and mobility, with Waymo CTO Dmitri Dolgov

Earlier this month, TechCrunch held its annual Mobility Sessions event down in San Jose, where leading mobility-focused auto companies, startups, executives and thought leaders joined us to discuss al

Toyota is giving automakers free access to nearly 24,000 hybrid car-related patents

Toyota said Wednesday it will give royalty-free access to its nearly 24,000 patents related to electrification technology and systems through 2030 in a move that aims to encourage rival automakers to

Toyota to recall 1 million Prius hybrid models over fire risk

Automobile giant Toyota said it is recalling over a million Prius hybrid vehicles globally, including 192,000 cars in the US. The company said in a statement Wednesday that the recall is due to a fire

Report: The Entire Prius Line To Be Plug-In Hybrids Starting With The 2014 Model Year

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Prius-PHV-23-620x413.jpg">Remember that plug-in Prius <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/04/12/autotech-video-review-toyota-prius-pl

AutoTech Video: A Week In A Prototype Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid

http://player.ooyala.com/player.swf?embedCode=V2Zm1kMjpmx6e4KJQE_-FPG_ZRWwqraE&version=2 The Chevy Volt and the Nissan Leaf are enjoying lots of free publicity right now. Each of their unique app

Toyota plug-ins to arrive in limited fashion within a year

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/toyota_prius_plugin_hybrid_122009.jpg" />Want a plug-in car, but the Leaf and Volt aren't doing it for you? Well, Toyota will be entering

Toyota to showcase two new electric/hybrid cars this month

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Toyota_FT_EV_II.jpg" /> The world's No. 1 auto maker Toyota has <a href="http://etoyota.net/measurement/click/news?CR_NO=200900017670&am

The Toyota Prius and Daihatsu Mira top Japan's official hit list of "green" cars

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/2008-toyota-prius-hybrid.jpg" /> Japan's <a href="http://www.mlit.go.jp/index_e.html">Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and To

New Toyota Prius has rooftop solar panels, is 10% more fuel-efficient

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/2008-toyota-prius-hybrid.jpg" /> <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/07/07/toyota-to-sell-solar-panel-equipped-prius-next-year/">We

Purchase your 2010 Honda Insight tomorrow

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/honda-insight.jpg">The latest Honda Insight goes on sale tomorrow. We <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/01/13/2010-honda-insight-pi

Solar-powered Toyotas in the works

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/suntoyota.jpg" /> Although it's pretty certain that every major car manufacturer has "plans" to develop a solar-powered vehicle, Toyota

Honda attacks Toyota in North America, wants to sell 100,000 low-priced hybrid cars

Spy shot of Honda’s new hybrid car (unconfirmed) Honda yesterday announced they hope to sell 100,000 units in North America of a new hybrid car slated for release on April 22, 2009 (Earth Day).

Hybrid Vehicles: It’s quiet out there, a little too quiet

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ushw_WDyDj8&color1=11645361&color2=13619151&hl=en&fs=1] We’ve all heard the whispers and murmurs regarding adding artificial noise to hybr

Toyota to sell solar panel-equipped Prius next year

The Nikkei, Japan’s biggest business newspaper, reports today [JP] Toyota will use solar panels in its next-generation Prius hybrid cars to be sold starting 2009. The company’s Japanese we