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 | 20 mar
09:35 | Lithium-powered Honda hybrids on the way
Can lithium challenge the Prius? In February, Toyota sold more than 27,000 Prius hybrids worldwide. Honda sold 3,517 Insight hybrids. To help shrink this gap in sales, Honda plans to begin using lithium-ion batteries in its hybrid cars within 2 or 3 years, according to Bloomberg, and the Civic hybrid will probably be the first lithium hybrid.
textio.co.uk |
 | 19 mar
14:30 | Toyota Prius Production To Decrease
The Toyota Prius has been the most popular hybrid available for years. The Prius has been considered one of the most environmentally friendly vehicles available worldwide. The number of units which had been selling each month supported this claim. However, with recent recall issues and backlash regarding recalls, the Toyota company is now reducing...
aboutmyplanet.com |
| 18 mar
23:11 | Feds: brakes weren't applied on crashed NY Prius
Yahoo! News A Toyota Prius is parked at the Harrison, New York police station waiting to be tested by Toyota personnel and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Wednesday, March 17, 2010. Toyota recalled more than 8 million cars because their gas pedals could become stuck or be snagged by floor mats. In addition, the government...
mashget.com |
| 18 mar
21:02 | Toyota Doubts Runaway Prius Story
Though cops ruled out driver error as a possibility for last week's Prius crash in Westchester, Toyota took it upon themselves to inspect the vehicle and said that could still be the case. A Toyota spokesman told the Post, "In all of our hybrids, when you step on the brake pedal the engine automatically returns to idle, even if the accelerator...
gothamist.com |
| 18 mar
21:02 | Toyota Doubts Runaway Prius Story
Though cops ruled out driver error as a possibility for last week's Prius crash in Westchester, Toyota took it upon themselves to inspect the vehicle and said that could still be the case. A Toyota spokesman told the Post, "In all of our hybrids, when you step on the brake pedal the engine automatically returns to idle, even if the accelerator...
gothamist.com |
| 18 mar
04:06 | Authorities: Prius seen near Border Patrol vehicle
Chicago Sun-Times EL CAJON, Calif. -- A California Highway Patrol report released Wednesday says an officer responding to a report of a runaway Toyota Prius arrived to find a Border Patrol agent near the driver with lights flashing. The Border Patrol presence raises the prospect that there were witnesses, but the report offers few new details and...
mashget.com |
| 16 mar
02:21 | Toyota says tests cast doubts on story of runaway Prius in California
Washington Post Toyota on Monday said that extensive testing of the 2008 Prius that allegedly took a Southern California driver on a 30-mile runaway ride last week casts serious doubts on his story. San Diego resident James Sikes, 61, was the subject of a highly publicized incident on a Southern California freeway March 8. Sikes said his Prius's...
mashget.com |
| 16 mar
01:52 | Toyota says 'significant inconsistencies' in Prius incident
The Detroit News Washington -- Toyota Motor Corp. said today its investigation into a runaway Prius found evidence of "significant inconsistencies" in the driver's assertion that he was unable to stop. James Sikes, 61, reported that last Monday he was unable to stop his 2008 Prius while on a San Diego freeway, calling "911" to report the...
mashget.com |
| 15 mar
22:17 | Toyota Disputes Prius Driver's Account
Wall Street Journal Toyota Motor Corp. said Monday there are "significant inconsistencies" between a California man's account of how his Prius hybrid accelerated out of control last week and the car maker's preliminary investigation of the vehicle. The driver, James Sikes, said he applied heavy pressure to the brake pedal while the car traveled at...
mashget.com |
 | 15 mar
16:49 | Toyota Prius: Production cut by 10% after global recall
It has been reported that Toyota are set to cut production of their once-popular Prius model, by as much as 10%, following the global recall of 450,000 Prius hybrid models due to braking defects. As reported from TimesOnline, sales of the Prius have fallen, and it now looks likely that production will be capped to just 45,000 vehicles per month,...
product-reviews.net |
| 15 mar
12:50 | Toyota to cut Prius production by 10 per cent
The outlook for Prius demand is uncertain." Robert Lea - TIMESONLINE - March 15, 2010 Can this be anything but a temporary setback? --Ed. A worldwide fall in sales of the Toyota Prius has prompted a significant cut in production of the best-selling green car by the Japanese motor giant. Uncertainty over future Toyota sales after a global recall...
cleanmpg.com |
| 15 mar
12:50 | Questions Raised in 'Runaway Toyota' Story
ABC News Attempts by federal investigators and Toyota technicians to recreate the experience described by a San Diego driver who said his Toyota Prius raced out of control have raised questions about the driver's version of events. James Sikes said that the accelerator on his 2008 Prius somehow got stuck during the half-hour March 8 incident, and...
mashget.com |
| 15 mar
11:15 | Gov't Cannot Explain Runaway Prius Incident
FOXNews WASHINGTON -- The federal government said Monday it cannot explain a reported incident of sudden, high-speed acceleration in a Toyota Prius on a San Diego, Calif., freeway last week. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in a statement that it continues to investigate but "we may never know exactly what happened with this...
mashget.com |
| 15 mar
09:53 | More questions on runaway Toyota
Washington Times SAN DIEGO | The mystery surrounding a Toyota Prius whose driver reported a stuck accelerator deepened Sunday as the motorist's attorney dismissed a congressional memo that questions his client's version of events. The memo said technicians with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Toyota could not duplicate the...
mashget.com |
| 15 mar
06:14 | Toyota to build Prius at 3rd Japan plant - paper
Reuters TOKYO, March 15 (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) will start making the Prius hybrid model at a third Japanese factory from September in a bid to shorten delivery time to customers, the Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun newspaper said on Monday. Stocks | Cyclical Consumer Goods The third-generation Prius has topped Japan's best-selling chart for...
mashget.com |
| 15 mar
00:28 | Questions Arise in Prius Case
Wall Street Journal An investigation of the Toyota Prius involved in a dramatic incident on a California highway last week is raising questions about the driver's version of the event. The investigation by federal officials along with engineers from Toyota Motor Corp. found a particular pattern of wear on the car's brakes that doesn't seem...
mashget.com |
| 14 mar
23:01 | Investigators unable to duplicate runaway acceleration in Prius
Washington Post Investigators from Toyota and the government have been unable to duplicate the runaway acceleration in a 2008 Prius that a Southern California man said took him on a 30-mile wild ride last week, according to a draft memo from a congressional panel. The tests on the Prius -- belonging to San Diego resident James Sikes, 61 -- were...
mashget.com |
| 14 mar
20:44 | Toyota, US Can't Replicate Prius Acceleration, Report Says
BusinessWeek March 15 (Bloomberg) -- Tests by Toyota Motor Corp. and U.S. regulators on a Prius hybrid whose driver said it accelerated out of control couldn't replicate his account, according to a report prepared for U.S. lawmakers. Officials from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Toyota sought to recreate the acceleration...
mashget.com |
| 13 mar
06:06 | Runaway Prius case presents nagging questions
Houston Chronicle SAN DIEGO - Investigators are confronted with a series of nagging questions as they try to unravel the case of a California real estate agent who said his Toyota Prius turned into a runaway death trap after the gas pedal became stuck. Why didn't the driver simply throw the transmission into neutral as officers urged him to do? Why...
mashget.com |
| 12 mar
16:45 | Toyota engineer to assist probe of NY Prius crash
Washington Post HARRISON, N.Y. -- Police say Toyota is sending an engineer to help investigate a suburban New York accident in which the driver said her Prius accelerated on its own and slammed into a stone wall. Harrison police Capt. Anthony Marraccini says the Toyota engineer is expected Wednesday. Toyota has recalled more than 8 million vehicles...
mashget.com |
| 11 mar
17:33 | Toyota Recalls: Where They Stand
This week’s news of two Toyota Prius hybrids experiencing alleged sudden acceleration has reminded us that Toyota hasn’t tackled every car it has recalled. To date, Toyota says of the 5.7 million vehicles included in the various recalls, more than 1 million have been repaired. The 5.7 million figure is the total vehicles affected by the recalls...
cars.com |
| 11 mar
10:48 | Feds probe Prius crash in N.Y.
Philly The crash heightens the attention surrounding unintended acceleration in Toyota vehicles and a recall involving more than eight million vehicles to address gas pedals that can become sticky or trapped under floor mats. The Department of Transportation is looking into the New York crash, spokeswoman Olivia Alair said. Capt. Anthony Marraccini...
mashget.com |
| 10 mar
14:55 | Police probe Toyota Prius crash in NYC suburb
Washington Post HARRISON, N.Y. -- The driver of a Toyota Prius told police in suburban New York that her car accelerated on its own, then lurched down a driveway, across a road and into a stone wall. The 2005 Prius' air bags deployed when the car hit the wall on Tuesday, toppling boulders. The driver, a 56-year-old woman, escaped serious injury,...
mashget.com |
| 10 mar
12:58 | Toyota, U.S. officials investigate runaway Prius in California
Vancouver Sun U.S. safety regulators and Toyota Motor Corp dispatched investigators to San Diego on Tuesday to inspect a Prius that sped out of control on a California freeway a day earlier. U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said two investigators from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration were sent to join a team from the...
mashget.com |
| 10 mar
03:21 | Report: Toyota continues to work on floormat fix for 2004-09 Prius
Autoblog In the wake of yesterday's "runaway Prius" in San Diego, Toyota says it's still working on a fix for the thousands of hybrids included in the 4.36 million vehicles recalled last November. The source of the unintended acceleration on these affected Prius models is the same as the other vehicles involved in the recall: A floor mat that gets...
mashget.com |
| 09 mar
20:06 | Toyota to Recall Prius Models Including One in Runaway Incident
Wall Street Journal Toyota Motor Corp. said Tuesday that the Prius involved in a highly publicized acceleration incident on a California freeway along with hundreds of thousands of others will be the subject of a future recall to prevent floor mats from pinning down the gas pedal. On Monday, James Sikes, 61 years old, called 911 for help after his...
mashget.com |
 | 09 mar
19:33 | Class-action lawsuits could cost Toyota $3B-plus
Toyota owners claiming that massive safety recalls are causing the value of their vehicles to plummet have filed at least 89 class-action lawsuits that could cost the Japanese auto giant $3 billion or more, according to an Associated Press review of cases, legal precedent and interviews with experts. Those estimates do not include potential payouts...
sacbee.com |
| 09 mar
19:33 | Class-action lawsuits could cost Toyota $3B-plus
Toyota owners claiming that massive safety recalls are causing the value of their vehicles to plummet have filed at least 89 class-action lawsuits that could cost the Japanese auto giant $3 billion or more, according to an Associated Press review of cases, legal precedent and interviews with experts. Those estimates do not include potential payouts...
sacbee.com |
| 09 mar
19:17 | Class-action lawsuits by disgruntled Toyota owners could cost company at...
MIAMI - Toyota owners claiming that massive safety recalls are causing the value of their vehicles to plummet have filed at least 89 class-action lawsuits that could cost the Japanese auto giant $3 billion or more, according to an Associated Press review of cases, legal precedent and interviews with experts. Those estimates do not include potential...
metronews.ca |
| 09 mar
16:58 | Class-action lawsuits could cost Toyota $3B-plus
FILE - In this Jan. 26, 2010 photo, a 2010 Toyota Corolla is shown at Toyota dealership in San Francisco. In the lawsuits, Toyota owners suing the company contend they paid far more for their vehicles than they were worth, and that Toyota knew all along about these problems but concealed them from buyers. They point to evidence such as Kelley Blue...
sacbee.com |
| 09 mar
14:09 | Toyota Recall Class-Action Lawsuits Could Cost The Automaker $3 BILLION
Such class-action lawsuits "are more scary for Toyota than the cases where people actually got injured," said Tom Baker, a University of Pennsylvania law professor. "A super-big injury case would be $20 million. But you could have millions of individual car owners who could (each) be owed $1,000. If I were Toyota, I'd be more worried about those...
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