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June 9, 2008

Toyota to Manufacture Camry Hybrids in Australia

TOKYO, Japan --- Toyota Motor Corp. plans to start manufacturing hybrid cars in Australia as early as 2010, according to a report from Reuters.

Tags: Australian Green Car Innovation Fund, Camry hybrids, hybrid production, Toyota

May 23, 2008

Lexus Considers Two Dedicated Hybrid Vehicles

TOKYO – Toyota’s Lexus brand is considering the addition of at least two dedicated hybrid vehicles to its rapidly expanding product portfolio, including a premium-priced companion to the Toyota Prius and a mid-size crossover.

Tags: Lexus, Prius, Toyota

May 16, 2008

Worldwide Prius Sales Top 1 Million Mark

TOKYO – Worldwide cumulative sales of the Toyota Prius have passed the 1 million mark, with approximately 1,028,000 units sold as of the end of April this year.

Tags: Japan, Prius, Toyota

April 29, 2008

MillionTreesNYC Announces Toyota as a New Driving Force Behind Campaign to Plant 1 Million Trees by 2017

NEW YORK – Toyota has signed a three-year $1.4 million sponsorship with MillionTreesNYC that will support tree planting, public education, and community outreach activities — all aimed at getting every New Yorker involved in tree planting and stewardship activities.

Tags: MillionTreesNYC, Toyota

April 22, 2008

EPA Recognizes Toyota with 2008 Energy Star Sustained Excellence Award

ERLANGER, KY – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., (TEMA), with a 2008 ENERGY STAR Sustained Excellence Award in recognition of its continued leadership in protecting our environment through energy efficiency.

Tags: ENERGY STAR, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Toyota

April 8, 2008

Honda Ranked as the "Greenest"

NEW YORK – Forbes.com recently ranked the greenest vehicles in the United States, focusing on the companies accounting for 95 percent of all new vehicles sold in 2007. Rankings were based on data from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Tags: Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, greenest vehicles , Honda, Hyundai, SmartWay , Toyota

April 4, 2008

Hydrogen Car Prospects Sputter

NEW YORK – California regulators have realized that manufacturers won't be able to make as many hydrogen-fueled cars by 2014 as regulators had once hoped, according to Forbes.

Tags: Ford, chrysler, GM, Honda, mandate, Nissan, plug-in hybrids, Regulations, Toyota, zero emission vehicles, ZEV

March 3, 2008

Lexus Gets its Own Prius

TORRANCE, CA - Toyota presented two dedicated hybrid models at the 2009 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, one a Toyota and the other a Lexus

Tags: Hybrid, Lexus, Toyota

March 3, 2008

Toyota to Raise Domestic Capacity for Lexus Luxury Vehicle

TOKYO – Toyota Motor Corp plans to hike production capacity for its Lexus luxury vehicles by about 35 percent, to 850,000 units a year in 2009, to deal with rising demand in emerging markets.

Tags: Lexus, Toyota

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Rising Commodity Prices Threaten to Increase Truck Prices

By Mike Antich
The high cost of raw materials, in addition to the high cost of fuel, is starting to make a financial impact on fleets by increasing costs for truck chassis, bodies, trailers, liftgates, and other upfit equipment. On July 9, Navistar announced that rising commodity costs have forced the company to increase prices of International truck models. Is this another in a series of commodity-related price increases that we will see from other OEMs, upfitters, and trailer manufacturers?

Bleak New-Vehicle Sales to Usher a Strong Used-Vehicle Market

By Mike Antich
Today's new-vehicle market will generate (ultimately) the used-vehicle market of tomorrow. If there is a decrease in new-vehicle sales, there will be a corresponding decrease in the future number of used vehicles in the marketplace. Even though there is a lot of nervousness in the market, no one is anticipating a dramatic decrease in new-vehicle commercial fleet orders for the 2009 model-year. However, the same cannot be said for the retail new-vehicle market.

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