More Hybrids than you can shake a stick at…
Last week we announced the sale of our 1 millionth hybrid vehicle in Japan, Prius has also been the best selling car in Japan for the last 14 months, I think this is a great achievement.
Toyota at the European Business Summit (EBS)
Two weeks ago, Toyota Motor Europe participated as Main Partner at the EBS, a yearly gathering of leading European politicians, business leaders and opinion formers. This year’s theme – “Putting Europe back on track” – focused on issues mainly related to economic recovery and clean technologies.
Plugging our Plug-Ins
Yesterday, I came back from Strasbourg where I had been for the launch of a large-scale Plug-in Hybrid Vehicle (PHV) demonstration in Strasbourg together with the French energy provider EDF, and the City and the Urban Community of Strasbourg. We’ve were lucky to have beautiful weather in a wonderfully picturesque city. There will soon be about 100 PHVs zooming around the region. They are not being driven by Toyota people, but by a group of partners who have decided they want to be involved in this trail-blazing activity, and are willing to commit their own resources to be involved (and a huge thanks to them all).
Prius Plug-in Hybrid’s are headed this way
The end of 2009 saw some important milestones in the development of our Prius Plug-in Hybrids (PHV).
FUTURE MOTORING, AS WE SEE IT, FROM THE TOKYO MOTOR SHOW
On Wednesday I was able to spend some time at the Tokyo Motor Show, and to quote our President Akio Toyoda, it “wasn’t as lively as it used to be”. That being said, we still had quite a lot to show at the Toyota and Lexus stands.
