Toyota Shareholder Revolt

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2023 15:05:53 +0000

When all you have to show for an electric offering is a toy car, then it is no wonder you have a shareholder revolt. Despite consistently producing and selling 8 million cars a year for the past 20 years, Toyota’s future doesn’t look as rosy as it used to, and shareholders are worried that they […]

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Best Selling Car Worldwide In Q1: The Tesla Model Y

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Wed, 31 May 2023 19:39:07 +0000

Last year, Tesla CEO Elon Musk predicted that the Model Y would become the world’s best selling car in 2023. While the statement was considered a lofty goal at the time, it appears that the electric SUV was the best selling vehicle worldwide in Q1, marking the first electric vehicle in history to top global […]

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Compact Commercial Vehicle Makers Share Common Platform for Mini-Van BEV

Credit to Author: Raymond Tribdino| Date: Thu, 25 May 2023 21:35:28 +0000

Japanese car makers Daihatsu, Suzuki, and Toyota came together to launch a single platform mini-commercial van battery electric prototypes at the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association (JAMA) exhibit which ran along with the G7 Hiroshima Summit. The G7 Summit followed the ASEAN Summit in Jakarta, where EV and battery production was also one of the main […]

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Sierra Club Survey Says 30% Of US Dealers REFUSE To Sell Electric Cars

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 11 May 2023 21:11:19 +0000

30% of US car dealers tell the Sierra Club they refuse to sell electric cars. Pretty soon they won’t have to because they will be out of business.

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Toyota Sweetens Mirai Fuel Cell Pot With Hydrogen From Biogas

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 08 May 2023 17:55:42 +0000

fuel cell electric car toyota trucks hydrogenToyota’s Mirai hydrogen fuel cell electric car could make a bigger impact on decarbonization than its sales figures suggest.

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Tesla Now 8th Best Selling Auto Brand In USA — US Auto Sales +9% vs. 2022, -11% vs. 2019

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2023 06:49:15 +0000

It’s time for another quarterly report on US auto sales. Like a few other major news outlets, I track total quarterly sales of the US auto industry, but I also conduct a thorough analysis of the trends of each automaker. Furthermore, I compare last quarter’s sales not just to the same quarter last year, but […]

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Tesla Now 8th Best Selling Auto Brand In USA — US Auto Sales +9% vs. 2022, -11% vs. 2019

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2023 06:49:15 +0000

It’s time for another quarterly report on US auto sales. Like a few other major news outlets, I track total quarterly sales of the US auto industry, but I also conduct a thorough analysis of the trends of each automaker. Furthermore, I compare last quarter’s sales not just to the same quarter last year, but […]

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The Toyota bZ4X Shines In Norway — Perhaps It’s Time For Toyota To Seriously Look Into Adding The bZ3 There Too

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2023 15:55:27 +0000

TOYOTA bZ3, the second model in the TOYOTA bZ series, announced in China -The first sedan-type battery EV in the series developed by combining the strengths of the three companiesThe transition to electric mobility is well underway. This transition is happening much faster than a lot of the big companies expected. In China for example, the plugin vehicle market share was a cool 33% in February. In Germany, another large and important market, the share is now close to 20%, and what was really […]

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Weichai’s Electric Trucks Will Use BYD’s Blade Battery

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 15:55:05 +0000

BYD’s revolutionary LFP Blade Battery has been instrumental in boosting production and sales of BYD’s battery-electric vehicles as well as its “Super Hybrid” DM-i and DM-p plug-in hybrids. Last year, BYD sold over 1.8 million vehicles and is looking to produce and sell a whole lot more of its own vehicles this year. But that’s […]

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