Articles about Toyota

Toyota Group subsidiary creates new joint venture with high performance metal maker Modumetal

Seattle-based high performance metals maker Modumetal today announced a new joint venture with Nagoya, Japan-based Toyota Tsusho America, a subsidiary… Read More

Microsoft and Toyota are revving up interest in hydrogen fuel-cell energy tech

Grid battery storage projects like Tesla’s 100-megawatt installation in Australia may be getting lots of press, but behind the scenes,… Read More

Toyota joins growing list of companies announcing integration with Amazon’s Alexa

LAS VEGAS — Add Toyota to the long and growing list of companies that are integrating Amazon’s Alexa into products… Read More

Toyota reveals e-Palette, a vision for a futuristic ‘Treasure Truck,’ with Amazon among early partners

LAS VEGAS — Beep beep! Will Amazon’s Treasure Truck have to move to the right to let Toyota’s vision for… Read More

Toyota’s futuristic 3-wheeler; Jaguar’s high-tech circuit; and more from the Seattle International Auto Show

I’m not exactly a car junkie, but I just had a lot of fun at the Seattle International Car Show… Read More

Toyota unveils ‘kinetic warmth’ concept car at CES that uses AI to nurture driver-vehicle relationship

LAS VEGAS — Can technology help our cars behave more like humans? Toyota is betting on it. The company unveiled… Read More

Microsoft takes stake in new Toyota connected car subsidiary that utilizes Azure

NEW ORLEANS, LA. — Toyota today announced a partnership with Microsoft to create a subsidiary called Toyota Connected that aims to catalyze… Read More

Mirai vehicle with Kymeta antenna system

A satellite antenna on your car: Toyota and Kymeta aim to make it so

Redmond-based Kymeta Corp. and Toyota took the wraps off their collaboration on a satellite antenna system that can send data… Read More

Car technology highlights from CES 2016

LAS VEGAS — Car makers didn’t participate in the giant CES trade show until 2007, but you would have never… Read More

Toyota’s research chief just told a CES crowd that there’s a long way to go before self-driving cars safely hit the road

LAS VEGAS — Nearly everywhere you turn at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show people are talking about self-driving cars. But… Read More

Forget self-driving cars, Toyota investing $50M in A.I. to develop ‘intelligent’ vehicles

Today, Toyota announced a $50 million, five-year collaboration with Stanford and MIT to develop “intelligent” cars. As the New York Times… Read More

Energy expert weighs in on Toyota’s ambitious fuel cell hydrogen car plans

Toyota wants to change how we power our vehicles. Earlier this month at the big Consumer Electronics Show, the car-maker… Read More

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GeekWire Radio at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS — We’re back with the first official GeekWire radio show of 2015, direct from the press room at… Read More

CES Video: Sony, Samsung, Dish, Toyota and more of GeekWire’s takeaways from press day

LAS VEGAS — GeekWire’s John Cook, Taylor Soper and I share our impressions from CES Press Day in this latest video… Read More

Here’s why this expert physicist thinks Toyota’s hydrogen fuel-cell car is ‘perfect’

LAS VEGAS — Dr. Michio Kaku thinks Toyota has developed the perfect car. Kaku, a theoretical physicist and best-selling author, spoke at… Read More

Toyota gives away patents to build ‘game-changing’ car of the future

LAS VEGAS — Toyota made it clear today at the big Consumer Electronics Show that its fuel-cell technology is the future… Read More

How Toyota’s hydrogen fuel-cell cars could someday provide power to your home

LAS VEGAS — It’s pretty cool how today’s technology allows us to charge an electric car by simply using an… Read More

Microsoft allies Ford and Toyota to collaborate on technology standards

A new partnership announced between Ford and Toyota this morning is attracting lots of attention, primarily focused on the companies’ plans… Read More

Follow-up: What Microsoft and Toyota are actually doing, and how it’s different

The news today that Microsoft and Toyota are working on a cloud computing system for cars — described by the… Read More

Microsoft, Toyota join forces on cloud computing for cars

Microsoft and Toyota have entered a new strategic partnership to build a next-gen information and telecommunications platform for Toyota’s vehicles… Read More

Microsoft + Toyota: Cars or the cloud … or both?

Microsoft and Toyota will be announcing a “new collaboration between the companies” on Wednesday afternoon, and the involvement of CEOs… Read More