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Driive (Free subscription) | yesterday
Plug-in hybrid, electric car on Toyota agenda Los Angeles Times, CA - 37 minutes ago The announcement by President Katsuaki Watanabe is the first indication that Toyota plans to revisit an area of automotive technology that it dabbled in a ... Toyota Plans Electric Car, Earlier Plug-In Prius Test (Update2) Bloomberg Lutz says no hybrid race between Toyota , GM The Associated Press GM...
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AutoblogGreen (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Toyota , Japan One of the last electric car hold-outs has announced they will finally be jumping on the zero-emission bandwagon. Toyota President Katsuaki Watanabe let slip today in Tokyo future plans for just such a vehicle. Skimping on the details he said only that they would be mass produced and go on sale sometime in the early "2010s." Geez dude, throw a...
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Green Car Congress (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Watanabe characterized the rapid change is the US market toward more fuel-efficient vehicles as structural. Click to enlarge. Outlining Toyota’s response to rapidly changing global market conditions, growing environmental issues and increasing material costs, President Katsuaki Watanabe said that the...
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Driive (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
... in battery technology. The all-electric car will be "mass-produced'' in the early 2010s, President Katsuaki Watanabe said today in Tokyo without elaborating. Tests of rechargeable Priuses, previously set for 2010, were moved up to late 2009. Currently available Priuses can operate on electricity and gasoline but cannot be plugged in. The move to develop an electric vehicle now reflects...
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LA Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Toyota is getting back in the electric vehicle game.The Japanese automaker said this week it intends to develop a small all-electric car for sale early in the next decade. The announcement by President Katsuaki Watanabe is the first indication that Toyota plans to revisit an area of automotive technology that it dabbled in a few years back in the Golden State. During California’s abortive...
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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Toyota's president, Katsuaki Watanabe, speaking to reporters Thursday in Tokyo after the carmaker lowered its sales target. (Katsumi Kasahara/The Associated Press) Toyota cuts 2009 sales forecast as slowdown bitesReutersPublished: August 28, 2008 Text Size: Toyota Motor, the world's most profitable carmaker, on Thursday cut its 2009 vehicle sales forecast by nearly 7 percent due to a...
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Detroit News (Free subscription) | yesterday
... slowing U.S. market and soaring gas prices. "We have been going at top speed up to now," President Katsuaki Watanabe told reporters at a Tokyo hotel after announcing the numbers. "It is time to set more cautious targets." Toyota Motor Corp had previously set a 2009 global sales goal of 10.4 million vehicles. AdvertisementThe lower target would still be a 2 percent increase from the...
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Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
... slowing U.S. market and soaring gas prices."We have been going at top speed up to now," President Katsuaki Watanabe told reporters at a Tokyo hotel after announcing the numbers. "It is time to set more cautious targets."Toyota Motor Corp. had previously set a 2009 global sales goal of 10.4 million vehicles.The lower target would still be a 2 percent increase from the company's 2008...
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Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | yesterday
... new battery technology.The all-electric car will be mass-produced in the early 2010s, President Katsuaki Watanabe said today in Tokyo without elaborating. Tests of rechargeable Priuses, previously set for 2010, were moved up to late 2009, the automaker said.The new timetable for the plug-in Prius, with an estimated 10-mile battery range, mirrors GM's planned schedule for employee...
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Auto Channel (Free subscription) | yesterday
... carries a small gasoline engine to recharge the batteries when they are depleted.Toyota President Katsuaki Watanabe said Thursday that Toyota will speed up delivery of its plug-in hybrid from 2010 to the end of 2009, while the Volt is due in showrooms in late 2010.But Lutz said he expects Toyota's plug-in will debut in controlled fleets and not in large numbers. He said GM will have...
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Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
... present included Toyota Chairman Fujio Cho -- a former Kentucky executive -- President Katsuaki Watanabe, and Toyota Honorary Chairman Shoichiro Toyoda."We talked about the situation we were in and we discussed some scenarios," St. Angelo said. "And then a group of people got together and studied all these different alternatives, gained consensus and then we made our moves."St. Angelo...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
... carries a small gasoline engine to recharge the batteries when they are depleted.Toyota President Katsuaki Watanabe said Thursday that Toyota will speed up delivery of its plug-in hybrid from 2010 to the end of 2009, while the Volt is due in showrooms in late 2010.But Lutz said he expects Toyota's plug-in will debut in controlled fleets and not in large numbers. He said GM will have...
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Earth2Tech (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
... a new Lexus hybrid. It’s also forging ahead with other, more fuel efficient models. President Katsuaki Watanabe says Toyota plans to use the foreseen slowdown to streamline its already lean manufacturing operations , making its production system in the U.S. more agile, and to develop more hybrid cars and other fuel-efficient vehicles. The undercurrent here seems to be, ‘OK, we were...
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News.com.au (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
... China to drive its growth. But even in those markets the outlook was foggy, said Toyota president Katsuaki Watanabe. "The business environment is rapidly becoming more difficult," he said.
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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
... to hold back the auto business at least through 2009."We have been going at top speed up to now," Katsuaki Watanabe, the Toyota president, was quoted by The Associated Press as telling reporters in Tokyo. "It is time to set more cautious targets."The Japanese group, which includes Daihatsu Motor and Hino cars, now expects to sell 9.7 million cars and trucks in 2009, Watanabe...
