Toyota will acquire Lyft’s self-driving technology unit for $550 million, the companies said, as the Japanese firm steps up its automation ambitions with the newly created Woven Planet division. TheContinue Reading
Toyota has been largely content to hang out in the background and sell variations of its Synergy hybrid powertrain but now the wheel has turned and Toyota must either joinContinue Reading
Toyota has joined forces with the 14 million euro FCH2RAIL project to crowd diesel locomotives out of the sprawling EU railway market. The FCH2RAIL project launched in January with theContinue Reading
Toyota has patented an autonomous refueling drone system that can drive out to your location and top up your car’s gasoline tank, hydrogen fuel cell or battery on the go.Continue Reading
The automobile sector is believed to contribute somewhere between 15 and 25 percent of polluting emissions, such as nitrogen oxide, particulate matter, and carbon dioxide. Collectively, these pollutants, which areContinue Reading
Japan’s SkyDrive Inc., among the myriads of “flying car” projects around the world, has carried out a successful though modest test flight with one person aboard. The vehicle looked likeContinue Reading
This week, researchers at Kyoto University who are working in conjunction with Toyota announced the development of a fluoride-ion solid state battery with up to 7 times the energy densityContinue Reading
Earlier this month, the Japanese company, SkyDrive, completed the country’s first manned flight of an electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle (eVTOL). The test flight mainly involved lifting off theContinue Reading
