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

In 2004 it was reported that Toyota was assisting Porsche with hybrid technology.

* The Toyota Prius, the first hybrid vehicle to go into full production, is unveiled in Japan on October 24, and goes on sale in Japan on December 9.

Toyota's vice president in charge of powertrain development also believes that all Toyota cars produced will be hybrid vehicles by the year 2020.

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.

Toyota demonstrated several gas turbine powered concept cars such as the Century gas turbine hybrid in 1975, the Sports 800 Gas Turbine Hybrid in 1979 and the GTV in 1985.

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 Sai, alternate name for the Lexus HS hybrid car

developed in the hybrid car industry are already filtering into truck use as Toyota, Ford, GM and others introduce hybrid pickups and SUVs.

The Toyota Prius is a series-parallel hybrid.

The three most popular hybrid vehicles, Honda Civic, Honda Insight and Toyota Prius, set the standards even higher by producing 4. 1, 3. 5, and 3. 5 tons showing a major improvement in carbon dioxide emissions.

Adjustable speed motor control inverters are currently used to power the traction motors in some electric and diesel-electric rail vehicles as well as some battery electric vehicles and hybrid electric highway vehicles such as the Toyota Prius, BYD e6 and Fisker Karma.

The Toyota Prius, the first mass-produced hybrid gasoline-electric car, was introduced worldwide in 2001.

Common examples include hybrid electric cars such as the Toyota Prius.

Some current hybrid vehicles, notably those of Toyota, Lexus and Ford Motor Company, have an electronically controlled CVT ( E-CVT ).

The Toyota Prius (; plural: Prii ) is a full hybrid electric mid-size hatchback, formerly a compact sedan developed and manufactured by the Toyota Motor Corporation.

The Prius first went on sale in Japan in 1997, and was available at all four Toyota Japan dealerships, making it the first mass-produced hybrid vehicle.

The Prius family reached global cumulative sales of 2. 87 million units through April 2012, representing 71. 8 % of Toyota Motor Company hybrid sales of 4 million Lexus and Toyota units sold worldwide since 1997.

In 1995, Toyota debuted a hybrid concept car at the Tokyo Motor Show, with testing following a year later.

* Toyota FT-CH dedicated hybrid

* Toyota PM, a concept car

Toyota unveiled the Prius c concept at the January 2011 North American International Auto Show.

* Toyota FT-HS Hybrid Sports concept

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Toyota made its SV-3 concept car public in October 1983 at the Tokyo Motor Show, gathering a huge amount of publicity both from the press and the audience.

For the first time, a new concept car, the Toyota FT-86 G Sports Concept, is added to the game on May 16, 2011.

Toyota, that discovered the benefits of injecting fresh air into the Wankel RCE exhaust port, used also a reed valve in the prototypes where they tested the SCRE concept ( Stratified Charge Rotary Engine ), however, this kind of intake port arrangement never reached the production line for automobile size RCEs.

A Toyota Century with a GT45 gas turbine and electric motor was shown as the Century gas turbine hybrid concept vehicle at the 1975 Tokyo Motor Show.

* Toyota concept cars.

The newly released Toyota IQ concept car uses petrol and has superior fuel economy.

It had lifted cues of its smaller brother the Toyota Tacoma along with some cues from the Toyota FTX concept truck.

It was initially unveiled in 1988 as the Toyota AXV-II concept car in almost production-ready form.

A Toyota concept car shown at the 2006 Chicago Auto Show.

The i-unit is an ultra-compact single seater four wheeled Toyota concept car.

This concept vehicle is of course used by Toyota for public relations, and they state that The " i-unit " is a form of " personal mobility " that seeks to attain a greater balance of meeting individuals ' wishes to enjoy freedom of movement, harmony with society, and harmony with the Earth's natural environment.

The Avancier's concept is similar to the Renault Vel Satis, Toyota Opa, Nissan R ' nessa, and the Opel Signum — based on the Honda Accord's platform, its tall height allows for an interior more spacious than the Accord sedan or station wagon.

It is believed that this design was inspired by Giugiaro's 1990 Jaguar Kensington concept car, a pedigree Leganza's body shares with the 1991 Toyota Aristo.

SewEasy is a more recent system used in Ready Made Garment ( RMG ) manufacturing, which is based on lean concept developed by Toyota.

The concept was formalised, and the term adopted, by Shigeo Shingo as part of the Toyota Production System.

The Toyota Previa had a four-cylinder engine located under the floor of the vehicle, mounted nearly flat on its side, rather than straight up and down like in its predecessor.

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

This made Hyundai second in the industry, only behind Toyota, for initial vehicle quality.

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.

* Toyota Sequoia, a sport utility vehicle

* Toyota Hilux, a vehicle often used as a technical.

* Toyota Rush, the name under which a version of the Daihatsu Terios mini sport utility vehicle is marketed in Indonesia

It is the site of Toyota Motor Manufacturing Mississippi, Toyota's eighth North American vehicle assembly plant.

Blue Springs is the site of Toyota's eighth North American vehicle assembly plant, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Mississippi.

Her vehicle then slammed into the back of Aboudihaj's, causing the Toyota to strike another vehicle before sliding sideways and impacting the center divider.

As the Toyota came to a stop, it was hit by another vehicle.

In January 2010, Autoblog. com reported that the 2009 and 2010 model year Pontiac Vibes are also included in the 2009 – 2010 Toyota vehicle recalls related to unintended acceleration due to shared components with the Toyota Matrix.

The company is partly owned by the Hyundai Motor Group, the fourth largest automaker in the world based on annual vehicle sales in 2010 after Toyota, General Motors, and Volkswagen AG.

The 2009 – 2010 Toyota vehicle recalls also took place during this time.

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.

Luxury vehicle makers may either be stand-alone companies in their own right, such as BMW and Mercedes, or a division / subsidiary of a mass market automaker ( e. g., Lexus belongs to Toyota ).

* Toyota Gaia, type of vehicle

The Japanese military authorities commanded Toyota to make a similar vehicle but to not model the appearance on the American Jeep.