Which automaker committed to a plant with battery giant LG Chem? And why again is Toyota so committed to hybrids and not electric cars? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending December 6, 2019. Sono Motors is aiming to make a compact car powered… Continue reading Battery costs, EVs for China, solar cars from Europe: The Week in Reverse
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BMW and Hyundai hacked by Vietnamese hackers, report claims
Image: Pablo Martinez German media is reporting that hackers suspected to have ties to the Vietnamese government have breached the networks of two car manufacturers, namely BMW and Hyundai. The report, coming from Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) and Taggesschau (TS), claims that hackers breached the network of a BMW branch sometime this spring. The attackers allegedly… Continue reading BMW and Hyundai hacked by Vietnamese hackers, report claims
Toyota’s Biggest Problem Is Keeping Hybrid Car Models in Stock
Toyota’s Biggest Problem Is Keeping Hybrid Car Models in Stock Bloomberg | Dec 5, 2019 at 7:23 PM Toyota Motor Corp. has a problem with selling its hybrids — it can’t get enough of them.
Toyota Motor leads $50m funding in US-based startup May Mobility
May Mobility, a US-based self-driving shuttle service provider, announced on Thursday that it has raised $50 million in a Series B round led by Toyota Motor Corporation. The round also saw the participation of SPARX Group and existing investors Millennium Technology Value Partners, Cyrus Capital Partners, BMW iVentures, and Toyota AI Ventures. The corpus raised… Continue reading Toyota Motor leads $50m funding in US-based startup May Mobility
May Mobility Raises $50M in Series B Funding
May Mobility, an Ann Arbor, Mich.-based autonomous Transportation-as-a-Service (TaaS) provider, closed a $50m Series B funding round. The round, which brought the company’s total raised to $84m to date, was led by Toyota Motor Corporation with participation from SPARX Group and return investors Millennium Technology Value Partners, Cyrus Capital Partners, BMW iVentures, and Toyota AI… Continue reading May Mobility Raises $50M in Series B Funding
Quarterly Plug-In EV Sales Scorecard
We’ll be reporting 2019 Q4 EV Sales beginning Thursday, January 2 and/or Friday, January 3, and continuing throughout the following week. However, it’s important to note that there will still be some missing data since many automakers refuse to report EV sales. Nonetheless, stay tuned in the coming days as we’ll be beginning to add automaker reported… Continue reading Quarterly Plug-In EV Sales Scorecard
@Toyota: Notice Concerning the Status of the Repurchase of Shares of our Common Stock
Notice Concerning the Status of the Repurchase of Shares of our Common Stock Go to Source
@Toyota: TMC Announces Board Member, Executive, Organizational, and Personnel Changes
Masataka Iida Honsha Plant Fuel Cell Unit Manufacturing Div. (General Manager) Honsha Plant Fuel Cell Manufacturing Div. (General Manager) Hiroyuki Kondo Shimoyama Plant Engine Manufacturing Div.2 (General Manager), Powertrain Company Shimoyama Plant Fuel Cell Manufacturing Div. (General Manager) Teruo Yoshida Planning Dept. (General Manager) Logistics Administration Div., Production & Logistics Field Production… Continue reading @Toyota: TMC Announces Board Member, Executive, Organizational, and Personnel Changes
@Toyota: Panasonic and Toyota Confirm Location and Executive Structure of Town Development Joint Venture
Toyota City, Aichi/Kadoma City, Osaka, Japan, December 4, 2019―Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic) and Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) announced that they have confirmed the location and executive structure of Prime Life Technologies Corporation (Prime Life Technologies), a new joint venture in the field of town development. The two companies concluded contracts aimed at the establishment of Prime… Continue reading @Toyota: Panasonic and Toyota Confirm Location and Executive Structure of Town Development Joint Venture
BMW sues air conditioning suppliers over price fixing
FILE PHOTO: BMW i8 is displayed at the LA Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S., November 20, 2019. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson BERLIN (Reuters) – BMW (BMWG.DE) is suing two of its suppliers over price fixing on air conditioning components, the German carmaker said on Wednesday. The case was first reported in the Handelsblatt newspaper, which… Continue reading BMW sues air conditioning suppliers over price fixing