Five years ago Toyota Motor Company was at the peak of a crisis over unintended acceleration. The chairman, Akido Toyoda, testified and apologized at a Congressional hearing. It was a very, very low point for a company that had overtaken Ford a the maker of the most popular model in...
Two pieces of interesting news on the Toyota Mirai FCV, courtesy of our friends at Carscoops and Bloomberg. First, Carscoops says that Toyota has taken orders for 1500 of their new fuel cell vehicle. Bloomberg provides some detail, as well as information that the Japanese government is plowing the road...
As the saying goes, there is more than one way to skin a cat. Actually that's an old saying which is pretty barbaric in these more polite times--but it's still accurate. And for the record, I don't think the origin is based on harming housecats. Anyway...
This is an excerpt from an Examiner.com column written by Sebastian James, publisher of Hybrid and Electric Car News. Enjoy, and be sure to subscribe to his posts. In Japanese, "Mirai" means the future. Toyota hopes the hydrogen-powered "Mirai" becomes synonymous with the same success as their car named after the Latin...