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HYBRIDS

Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 22, 2022
Toyota prepares for hybrid reboot in India, building local supply chain
The Japanese carmaker is doubling down on a bet that emerging markets will learn to love its hybrids — as long as the price is right.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 1, 2022
Toyota may quit production if Britain bans hybrids, report says
The carmaker said that a hybrid vehicle ban would affect its operations as well as its future investments in Britain.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 19, 2022
How China became ground zero for the auto chip shortage
Despite being the world's largest producer of cars, and leader in electric vehicles, China relies almost entirely on chips imported from Europe, the United States and Taiwan.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 24, 2022
Japan emphasized hybrids in policy document after lawmaker cited lobbying from Toyota head
The wording changes, which included adding a reference to 'so-called electric-powered vehicles,' appear to put hybrids on equal footing with zero-emission battery vehicles.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 4, 2022
Toyota says it will stick with U.K. in move to electric vehicles
The firm said it is ready to sell only zero-emission cars and reiterated its view that hybrids have a role to play in the transition by 2035.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 1, 2022
Toyota poised for sales victory lap in U.S. as gas prices boost hybrids
Toyota has more deftly navigated a chip crunch crimping vehicle output than some of its peers, which helped it oust GM as the No. 1 automaker in the U.S. in the last quarter of 2021.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 7, 2021
Toyota chooses North Carolina for first U.S. battery plant
The company will break ground on its first battery factory in the U.S., joining an industrywide push as automakers accelerate efforts to electrify their fleets.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 19, 2021
Toyota launches fuel-efficient Aqua hybrid with better acceleration
Toyota, which had received orders for about 15,000 new Aqua units as of last Thursday, is aiming to sell 9,800 units a month.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 13, 2021
In Europe, once 'green' plug-in hybrid cars now look like dinosaurs
EU policy plans for plug-in hybrid vehicles could mean the 'transition' technology has a shorter lifespan than envisaged by carmakers.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 18, 2020
While we're waiting for electric cars to fully charge, how about hybrids?
Investors have run up the stock prices of electric car companies and their valuations far higher than the businesses really warrant.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 10, 2020
Can Japan shift gears fast enough to ban gas cars by 2035?
By the middle of the next decade, cars that run on gasoline may be as common at dealerships as VCRs are at electronic shops today thanks to an ambitious policy under consideration by Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's administration to buttress its decarbonization efforts.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 8, 2020
Hybrids are quietly selling faster than fully electric cars
Many conventional automakers are mulling their options, trying to decide which technologies will reign in the decades between now and a full transition away from combustion engines.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 6, 2020
Toyota launches its first hybrid car in Vietnam
Toyota Motor Corp. has launched the Corolla Cross SUV in Vietnam, its first hybrid vehicle to be sold in the Southeast Asian country.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 8, 2020
Toyota launches first plug-in hybrid SUV in Japan
Toyota Motor Corp. on Monday started selling its first plug-in hybrid SUV in Japan as it looks to commit more to the electric vehicle market.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 3, 2020
Tesla barely registers in Japan, the world's third-largest auto market
For all of Elon Musk’s domination of the burgeoning electric vehicle business, Tesla Inc. is struggling to get traction in Japan, a market he put on a pedestal early in the automaker’s early days.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 6, 2020
U.K. carmakers press Boris Johnson to fund pledge to end gasoline era by 2035
Automakers in the U.K. are pressing for government funding to meet a new goal of killing off combustion cars by 2035, even as demand for electric models is surging.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 11, 2019
Japanese hybrids beating slump in China's car market
China's once-in-a-generation car slump is hobbling carmakers around the globe that placed their bets on what is the world's biggest auto market. But one group is weathering the slowdown unscathed: Japanese automakers.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 6, 2019
Toyota struggles to match demand for hybrid models
Toyota Motor Corp. has a problem with selling its hybrids — its customers can't get enough of them.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tokyo Motor Show 2019
Oct 23, 2019
Mitsubishi rolls out next-generation hybrid SUVs
This year at Tokyo Motor Show 2019, Mitsubishi Motors Corp. is rolling out its latest and greatest inventions — the MI-Tech Concept compact plug-in hybrid electric SUV and the Super Height K-Wagon Concept light motor vehicle.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 12, 2019
Toyota tests solar-powered Prius in quest for plug-free electric car
Inspired by new ultrathin solar panels developed for satellites, a project led by Toyota Motor Corp. is experimenting with a sun-powered Prius that it hopes will one day operate without needing to be plugged in.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Yen rebounds strongly after first slide past ¥160 since 1990
The yen dropped to ¥160.245 per dollar on Monday before heading into the other direction to ¥155.01 amid speculation of an intervention by Japanese currency authorities.
Did Japan intervene to prop up the yen? Analysts think it did.
A man walks past an electronic board displaying the exchange rate for the yen against the U.S. dollar (right) in Tokyo on Tuesday.
JAL cancels international flight after captain gets drunk at Dallas hotel
A Japan Airlines' flight from Dallas to Tokyo was canceled last week after its captain got drunk at a local hotel.
Golden Week crowds greeted with high temperatures as holiday period kicks off
The departure lobby for domestic flights is crowded with travelers at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Saturday, the first day of this year's Golden Week holidays.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.

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