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For most of the world’s automakers, the Geneva Auto Show will be back-to-business with new model rollouts to put the gotta-have-it gleam back in consumers’ eyes. For Toyota, that won’t be enough. “Toyota is still in the middle of its global recalls, and new… Toyota – Geneva Motor Show – Automotive industry – Geneva Auto Show – Recreation

In an internal presentation, Toyota staffers boasted from the organization saving $100 million by negotiating a limited remember for Toyota Camry and Lexus ES cars over an issue that could cause unintended acceleration.

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With congressional hearings beginning these days about Toyota’s safety shortcomings, the automaker has at least one example that it can use to show that it is actually being more aggressive than other car businesses when it comes to safety recalls.

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Sequoia Capital-backed Oorja Protonics could be energy-producing cells of methanol to charge the batteries in forklifts - but its new product, design OorjaPac 1, could give him a big-time bowl in the plug-in vehicle market. Provision of 50 situations much more energy than on-board batteries that power cell competition, model 1 could extend the range of electric vehicles like General Motors’ Chevy Volt or Nissan sheet two to three situations — a set of improvement that could cause green car salesmen much hotter. Read the rest of this entry »

Security was on hand during the Toyota make meeting here these days, but there wasn’t a peep of hostility aired toward the organization during an hour-long session, dealers said. “This is really a great product and a great organization,” stated Sam Swope, a Toyota dealer since 1967. Read the rest of this entry »