Toyota & BYD Form Joint Venture To Manufacture Electric Cars In China
In a surprise move, Toyota and BYD have agreed to form a joint venture to develop and produce electric cars for the Chinese market.
In a surprise move, Toyota and BYD have agreed to form a joint venture to develop and produce electric cars for the Chinese market.
I’ve had a love affair with Arcimoto for the past 6 years, but don’t tell my wife. It’s true, I knew Arcimoto was the right company when I first saw it at the Los Angeles Auto Show in 2013. I became convinced when I visited the company’s headquarters.
The City of New York (NYC) has put the Tesla Model 3 on the list of approved yellow cabs. The Model 3 is the first-ever all-electric car to make it on the list. Previously, some hybrid cars were on the list, such as the Toyota RAV4 Hybrid, Toyota Prius, Chevrolet Malibu Hybrid, and Ford Fusion Hybrid (see full list below).
The Santa Monica AltCar Expo and Ride & Drive is consistently one of our favorite shows of the year because it has most of the popular plug-in vehicles and company experts in one place. The public is then free to simply walk into the free event and drive vehicles and ask questions to their heart’s content.
When you look at your finances and see that you’re upside down in your current car, that your credit is shot to hell, or that you can’t get into a car payment right now (or all of the above), you can’t simply wish your way out of that hole, even if you wish really, really hard. Continuing to drive a gas vehicle in that situation doesn’t make you a bad person or a sinner.
Toyota, Mazda, and Honda have all made announcement this week concerning their electric car future. Of them all, Honda’s news may be the most important.
There are a handful of hilarious and informative pro-Tesla Twitter accounts. Elon Musk’s may be the most famous (either his or Earl’s), and he’s got a pretty good handle on humor (dad humor), but another tweeter who makes me laugh on a routine basis and who I think more people should follow is The Short Shorts Historian (@TeslaHistorian). This history professor is quite adept at picking LOL-funny tweets from yesteryear and bringing them to the harsh neon lights of modern-day Twitter.
Toyota’s presentations at the e-volution event focused on a dual prong approach to alternative fuel vehicles. For the near term, Toyota will focus on extending its hybrid and plug-in hybrid electric vehicle technology into new segments, extending the technologies horizontally across its lineup in the US.
The Green Cab taxi company in Madison, Wisconsin, announced today that it is converting its fleet of taxis to electric vehicles. When complete, the move will make Green Cab the first in the nation to operate a fleet of fully electric taxis.
This week, Toyota pulled the wraps off the new 2021 Mirai, boasting an impressive 30% increase in range thanks to a new and improved fuel cell stack paired with slightly larger hydrogen storage tanks. The new tanks have a total of 122.4 liters of volume and can hold about 5 kilograms of hydrogen when full.