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Toyota and Suzuki have announced a partnership to produce electrified vehicles for the world's markets. The two companies had been considering the terms of a collaboration involving electrified cars since 2017. Toyota brings its Toyota Hybrid System (THS), hybrid electric vehicle (HEV)...

Gill Pratt of Toyota unveiled the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) new Guardian technology at CES 2019. This life saving AI technology can make decisions on the fly to avoid accidents. It amplifies human ability by assisting the elderly and young to drive more safely. For example if it detects...

Toyota is investing $500M in Uber. Why is Toyota doing this? The investment gets Toyota to the front of the line in Uber's self-driving car program. In the past, Uber has been retrofitting Volvo SUVs with its self-driving tech, and it seems that will continue alongside Toyota. Now Toyota...

Hybrids and plug-in electric vehicles seem to be what most automakers and consumers are looking for when they want to go green. However, Toyota hasn't given up on their idea of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and is predicting a tenfold increase in sales by 2020. This isn't a huge number of cars...

As a result of the March 18th crash in Arizona of a Uber self-driving car that killed a pedestrian, and the subsequent release of the video of the accident, Toyota has suspending all testing on public roads. They say they are giving their test drivers some time off and they want to assess the...

Toyota has joined a growing group of companies that are jumping onto the Alexa train and plans to add the voice assistant to all models that have the Toyota Entune 3.0 App Suite and Lexus Enform App Suite 2.0 in 2018. All of Alexa's skill will be available in the car. Overall, this isn't a bad...

Toyota announced that it is nearing a breakthrough in battery technology. Instead of the liquid electrolytes present in lithium-ion batteries used in today's EVs (electric-vehicle), the solid-state battery uses solid electrolytes. Besides coming in at a lighter weight, solid-state batteries can...

Toyota has announced that as an option for the 2018 Camry, you can get "Automotive Grade Linux" as the backbone of the Infotainment system. Toyota is still using Entune branding, with AGL 3.0 forming the base for its latest Entune 3.0 system in the Camry. This could be pretty interesting in my...

Toyota has a new commercial where it's new C-HR crossover vehicle gets revenge for all of the beatings that the bonus stage car took since 1991. If you grew up and bled Street Fighter II in the arcades, then you know how much of a beating that bonus stage car took over the years! I even had a...