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Meanwhile, Toyota’s diversification has been slowly vindicated as global EV sales have stagnated and customers turn to hybrids as an alternative. In February, the company raised its net profit ...
Hybrid Synergy Drive (HSD), also known as Toyota Hybrid System II, is the brand name of Toyota Motor Corporation for the hybrid car drive train technology used in vehicles with the Toyota and Lexus marques.
By the end of 2006 there were about 15 hybrid vehicles from various car makers available in the U.S. [1] By May 2007 Toyota sold its first million hybrids and had sold a total of two million hybrids at the end of August 2009. [2]
Sep 26, 2007 – US: 55,000 Toyota Camry and ES 350 cars in "all-weather" floor mat recall. [34]Nov 02, 2009 – US: 3.8 million Toyota and Lexus vehicles again recalled due to floor mat problem, this time for all driver's side mats.
It is a major component of problem-solving training, delivered as part of the induction into the Toyota Production System. The architect of the Toyota Production System, Taiichi Ohno , described the five whys method as "the basis of Toyota's scientific approach by repeating why five times [ 5 ] the nature of the problem as well as its solution ...
The Tacoma gets the i-Force 2.4-liter turbocharged four-cylinder used throughout the Toyota lineup, but with a number of tweaks to better prepare it for truck duty. The base transmission is a new ...
The Toyota TS040 Hybrid is a Le Mans Prototype 1 (LMP1) sports car built and used by Toyota Motorsport GmbH in the 2014 and 2015 seasons of the FIA World Endurance Championship. Work on the car's design began in November 2012, when the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) published its 2014 technical regulations and Toyota utilised its resources ...
Genchi genbutsu is, therefore, a key approach in problem-solving, saying that if the problem exists on the shop floor, then it needs to be understood and solved at the shop floor. Genchi genbutsu is also called Gemba attitude. Gemba is the Japanese term for "the place" (meaning "the place where it actually happens").