Toyota’s global sales of gasoline-electric hybrid vehicles have surpassed 5 million in a milestone for a technology that was initially greeted with skepticism. The Japanese automaker, which said Wednesday it had sold 5.125 million hybrid vehicles as of the end of March, started selling the Prius, the world’s first mass produced hybrid passenger car, in [...]

Public revolt in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and elsewhere makes it clear that many yearn for rights and liberties. But states are not the only institutions obligated to respect human rights. Companies also have human rights responsibilities and can be complicit in violating human rights. For example, during the first days of protests in Cairo, telecom [...]

There are plenty of revelations in the annual sustainability report recently released by Toyota. By and large, the company is as ecologically-minded as a multi-national corporation can be, but as we’ve touched on before, not everything is as squeaky clean as it could be. The Toyota Prius has earned itself as one of the greenest [...]

L’Institut national de l’énergie solaire (Ines) et Toyota (Toyota est un constructeur automobile, originaire du Japon. Le siège du groupe est situé dans la ville de Toyota (qui a…)  ont inauguré lundi 4 octobre une station solaire pour véhicules hybrides rechargeables (VHR) près de Chambéry. Fruit de la collaboration entre le CEA, l’Ines et Toyota, [...]

Experts from three European universities have unveiled findings showing some auto makers are wasting billions of euros worth of environmental and social resources. The researchers warn this could add unnecessary costs to the auto industry’s already heavy financial burden. (…) They concluded that General Motors, rated the worst, had a ‘sustainability value’ of minus EUR9.8 [...]

If your carbon footprint is an important consideration to you when you’re car shopping, you may picture yourself in a Toyota Prius. Or perhaps, if you pay close attention to the auto industry, you’ve got your eye on a Chevy Volt or Nissan Leaf. These cars aren’t likely to win you any stoplight drag races, [...]

Toyota Motor Europe is one of the six companies to join CN Net today, a web-based network which impresses upon governments, local authorities, private companies and individuals to make large carbon cuts. “The participation of a major company like Toyota is a sign that private companies are increasingly playing their part on the road to [...]

Cars promoted as eco-friendly were criticised yesterday for pumping out up to 56 per cent more carbon dioxide than the manufacturers claim. Three models, including the Honda Civic hybrid, performed so badly in tests that their environmental claims were dismissed as a gimmick. A further five vehicles, including Volkswagen’s Polo BlueMotion, hailed as Britain’s greenest [...]

Most of us now understand that pollution from cars causes global warming. So, we also know that driving cleaner cars – like Toyota’s low-emission, 48 miles-per-gallon (mpg) Prius hybrid – means less global warming pollution. Unfortunately, the overall truth about Toyota is, well, inconvenient. The carbon footprint of Toyota’s overall car fleet remains dinosaur-esque, and [...]

I predict that in 2008, green will become the new black. People are notoriously bad at predicting the future — witness the Iowa caucuses — but this is a safe guess because it’s already happening. Green, of course, doesn’t refer to the color, but to the embrace of ecological consciousness in all things. But like [...]