In 2009, Toyota commissioned Haden to perform three songs for television commercials for the third-generation Toyota Prius, including an a cappella version of the Bellamy Brothers 1970s song " Let Your Love Flow ".

Here, the battery acts as a temporary energy store, allowing e. g. the implementation of regenerative braking and switching off the hydrocarbon engine when idling or stationary ( as used in automobiles such as the Toyota Prius ).

A typical hybrid automobile battery for a Toyota Prius requires 10 to 15 kg ( 22-33 lb ) of lanthanum.

For example, drive electric motors of each Toyota Prius require one kilogram ( 2. 2 pounds ) of neodymium per vehicle.

* The Hybrid vehicles market, which became somewhat popular towards the middle of the decade, underwent major advances notably typified by such cars as the Toyota Prius, Ford Escape, and the Honda Insight though by December 2010 they accounted for less than 0. 5 % of the world cars.

The Hyundai Elantra was Consumer Reports ' top-ranked 2008 vehicle among 19 other compacts and small family cars, beating out the Honda Civic, Toyota Corolla and Toyota Prius.

* Power Split Device, part of the Hybrid Synergy Drive on a Toyota Prius

In the past, he has opted to fly on commercial flights instead of chartering private jets, he owns an electric Tesla Roadster, Fisker Karma plug in hybrid, and a Toyota Prius.

High power Ni-MH battery of Prius | Toyota NHW20 Prius, Japan

Hybrid vehicles such as the Toyota Prius, Honda Insight, Ford Escape Hybrid, Chevrolet Malibu Hybrid, and Honda Civic Hybrid also use them.

The superior power-to-weight ratio of the gas turbine and its fixed speed gearbox, allows for a much lighter prime mover than those in such hybrids as the Toyota Prius ( which utilised a 1. 8 litre petrol engine ) or the Chevrolet Volt ( which utilises a 1. 4 litre petrol engine ).

In hybrid vehicle applications, wear on braking systems is greatly reduced by energy recovering motor-generators ( see regenerative braking ), so some hybrid vehicles such as the GMC Yukon hybrid and Toyota Prius ( except the third generation ) use drum brakes.

* Toyota Prius

Due to falling gas prices, the Toyota Prius will no longer be produced there, but rather the Toyota Corolla which was previously produced at NUMMI.

Toyota Prius used by NYPD # Traffic Enforcement | NYPD Traffic Enforcement

These encompass such vehicles as the Saturn Vue, Toyota Prius, Toyota Camry Hybrid, Ford Escape Hybrid, Toyota Highlander Hybrid, Honda Insight, Honda Civic Hybrid Lexus RX 400h and 450h and others.

The Toyota Prius is a series-parallel hybrid.

Typical passenger car installations include the Toyota Prius, the Ford Escape, Ford Fusion, the Lexus RX400h, RX450h, GS450h, LS600h and CT200h.

The UAAI badge-engineered cars first introduced in 1989 sold in far fewer numbers than anticipated, but the Holden Commodore, Toyota Camry, and Corolla were all successful when sold under their original nameplates.

In 1997, Toyota equipped their Century Limousine with a 5. 0 L DOHC V12 ( model # 1GZ-FE ), making it the first and only Japanese production passenger car so equipped.

A proponent of environmentalism, Hanks is an investor in electric vehicles and owns both a Toyota RAV4 EV and the first production AC Propulsion eBox.

The first car to feature Automatic Shoulder belts as standard equipment was the 1981 Toyota Cressida, but the history of the belts go back further.

The GT1 class was for the purebred supercars and purpose-built race cars, such as the McLaren F1 GTR, Ferrari F40, Porsche 911 GT1, Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR, Toyota GT-One and Nissan R390 – while the first two were a derivatives of roadgoing sports cars, the German and Japanese contenders were pure-bred racing cars – virtually sports prototypes.

This was his first drive in a sportscar since working with Toyota in 1992.

The first single released in Japan was " Set Your Heart " which gained significant airplay there and was used in the advertising campaign for the 2008 Toyota Car Model ( Mark X ZIO ) starring actor and singer Takeshi Kaneshiro.

The village borders on Dulwich Park, where the Dulwich Horse and Motor Show is held every year ( it was here that the new Toyota Corolla made its first UK appearance at a motor show in 1997 ).

The new model, called the " Mustang II ", was introduced two months before the first 1973 oil crisis, and its reduced size allowed it to compete against imported sports coupés such as the Japanese Toyota Celica and the European Ford Capri ( then Ford-built in Germany and Britain, sold in U. S. by Mercury as a captive import car ).

The city's growth began in the mid-1980s, when Toyota built Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky, the first wholly owned United States plant, in a recently annexed part of the city.

The Walters Group became the first developer to build in the Barnegat section, an early sales promotion for the Ocean Acres Barnegat homes included a free Toyota Yaris hatchback to be included with the homes.

State Street is dominated by automobile dealerships, where auto magnate, Larry H. Miller, purchased his first dealership May 1, 1979, as Larry H. Miller Toyota.

In 1997 Toyota released the first series-hybrid bus sold in Japan.

He also played a key role in Manchester United becoming the first English team to win the Toyota World Club Championship in keeping a clean sheet against Palmeiras of Brazil, in Tokyo, during the 1999 Intercontinental Cup.

* Convertibles such as first Porsche Boxster, Toyota MR2 and third generation Mazda MX5 ( NC ) featured Z-fold ( aka zig-zag fold ) tops, whereby the exterior of the neatly retracted fabric roof also protected the remaining roof from sun exposure – eliminating the aesthetic or protective need for a tonneau cover.

There are also cars with V10 engines in sports car racing, usually with Judd power plants with 4 or 5 liter engines, made available for customers, although the first V10 was seen in the works Peugeot 905 and the Works Toyota TS010, in the final races of the 1990 World Sportscar Championship season.

* The Toyota Sports 800 was Toyota's first sports car, and contained a two-cylinder Boxer engine, the 2U.

In 1936, when Toyota won its first truck contract with the Japanese government, his processes hit new problems and he developed the " Kaizen " improvement teams.

: I was first introduced to the concepts of just-in-time ( JIT ) and the Toyota production system in 1980.

The elimination of waste is the goal of Lean, and Toyota defined three broad types of waste: muda, muri and mura ; it should be noted that for many Lean implementations this list shrinks to the first waste type only with corresponding benefits decrease.

Räikkönen came close to winning his first Grand Prix in France, but went off track at the Adelaide hairpin with a handful of laps to go, because of oil from the blown engine of Allan McNish's Toyota on the circuit.

Bahrain saw him achieve his first podium of the season with a third place behind Renault's Alonso and the Toyota of Jarno Trulli.

Some buyers lamented the small size of the first compacts that came from Japan, and both Toyota and Nissan ( known as Datsun during the 1970s ) introduced larger cars called the Toyota Corona Mark II, replaced by the Toyota Cressida, the Mazda 616, and Datsun 810 which gave buyers increased passenger space and some luxury amenities, such as air conditioning, power steering, AM-FM radios, and even power windows and central locking without increasing the price of the vehicle.