Mazda Motor Corp. will license the gasoline-electric hybrid technology used by Toyota enter the hybrid market and build their own hybrid car for sale in 2013. Mazda said it will license the hybrid technology used in the Prius and combine it with its next-generation Sky engine that is under development and create and manufacture a [...]

Another survey on the current state of the public opinion of Toyota’s reputation for quality in America indicates exactly what you might expect, things aren’t looking so good for Toyota. Two years ago 80% of Americans saw Toyota as company that built quality cars, now, it’s dropped to 21.8% according to the most recent survey [...]

There’s probably no need to get into the problems that Toyota has been having lately with a PR nightmare that’s led to the recall of 133,000 Toyota Prius hybrids last month. The Toyota Prius brakes had been shown to cause a momentary loss in breaking power. What most people don’t know is that 11% of [...]

The new $4.1 million Clean Vehicle Rebate Project (CVRP), which is funded by the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Air Resources Board ARB) and administered statewide by the California Center for Sustainable Energy (CCSE) has started offering rebates worth up to $20,000 for eligible zero-emission and plug-in hybrid vehicles. For which vehicles, and for how much [...]

According to Business Week magazine, Renault-Nissan’s CEO Carlos Ghosn said that his company has 56,000 orders for the Leaf in the United States. The car will be available late this year, and Ghosn said that real mass production will start in 2012, when the alliance plans to have capacity to 500,000 electronic vehicles in Japan, [...]