Are auto industry investors getting fed up with legacy auto OEMs riding the brakes on the EV transition? At Daimler Truck’s recent annual general meeting, a group of activist shareholders highlighted the company’s anemic 2025 financial results and raised concerns that the company’s lobbying against climate regulations might be jeopardizing its long-term competitiveness. Recently, Toyota,… Read more »
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As other automakers retrench, Toyota has four new EVs in the works
WTH is Toyota thinking? Is it serving up new EVs as the US market collapses? Not at all—its methodical approach validates the EV transition. When an auto reporter gets pretty much the same question on the same day from two different people—one at a major auto brand, the other a fellow reporter—his attention is naturally… Read more »
Toyota Material Handling invests in Advanced Charging Technologies to advance electric equipment
Toyota Material Handling North America (TMHNA), composed of the Raymond Corporation and Toyota Material Handling brands, has made a strategic investment in Advanced Charging Technologies (ACT). ACT, a provider of battery charging solutions to both Raymond and Toyota, develops advanced charging technologies specifically for the material handling sector. The investment will expand ACT’s role within… Read more »
Toyota Material Handling introduces new lithium-ion batteries for forklifts
Toyota Material Handling, the North American material handling products division of the Japanese automaker, is expanding its portfolio with the introduction of its new 5/35 lithium-ion batteries. Available in 24 V, 36 V and 48 V versions, the new IP69-rated batteries fit a variety of Toyota forklifts used in industries such as cold storage, food… Read more »
Asahi Kasei to supply Toyota Tsusho with Li-ion battery separators from North Carolina factory
Japanese manufacturers Asahi Kasei and Toyota Tsusho have established a strategic partnership for the supply of automotive lithium-ion battery separators in North America. The companies’ respective subsidiaries in the US—Asahi Kasei Battery Separator America (AKBSA) and Toyota Tsusho America—have finalized a capacity rights agreement for AKBSA to supply its Hipore wet-process separator to Toyota Tsusho…. Read more »
LG Energy Solution and Toyota Tsusho establish US battery recycling JV
Battery maker LG Energy Solution Michigan and Toyota Tsusho America have established Green Metals Battery Innovations, a joint venture (JV) company focused on battery recycling that will build and operate a preprocessing plant in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The new plant will handle preprocessing operations to extract black mass, which contains raw metals such as nickel,… Read more »
2026 Subaru Uncharted: quirky brand’s third EV is, yes, another model shared with Toyota
If the company’s contribution to the Uncharted was largely AWD tuning, ride, and safety … what makes it a Subaru? Subaru unveiled its third dedicated electric vehicle Thursday night, a compact hatchback roughly the size of its Crosstrek, to be known as the Uncharted. The 2026 Subaru Uncharted is 7 inches shorter than its Solterra,… Read more »
Toyota says its new hydrogen fuel cell system has durability designed for commercial vehicles
Toyota has unveiled its third-generation fuel cell system, known as the 3rd Gen FC System, “part of its continued efforts toward the realization of a hydrogen society.” Toyota said that its new generation of hydrogen fuel cell systems is smaller and lighter than its previous line. It is also twice as durable. “The all-new 3rd… Read more »
EVgo opens the first charging stations deployed through Toyota’s Empact project
EVgo is a public fast charging provider that operates more than 1,100 fast charging stations across 40 states. Toyota is a global automaker that could be a leader in vehicle electrification if it chose to be. Here’s a small step in the right direction. Toyota is cooperating with EVgo to roll out a network of… Read more »
Toyota starts battery production at new North Carolina automotive battery plant
Toyota Battery Manufacturing North Carolina (TBMNC), Toyota’s first in-house battery manufacturing plant outside Japan, will start shipping batteries for North American EVs in April. The nearly $14-billion battery facility, Toyota’s 11th manufacturing plant in the US, will produce batteries for hybrid vehicles and EVs. The new plant is part of the company’s strategy to invest… Read more »