Toyota, a leading automobile manufacturer, has initiated a voluntary recall affecting specific 2022 and 2023 Tundra and Tundra Hybrid trucks, marking its most substantial recall action of 2023. The announcement comes in response to a potential safety concern that affects approximately 168,000 vehicles in the United States. On Thursday, Toyota revealed that the identified vehicles…
Toyota, known for pioneering lean car manufacturing, now faces the challenge of catching up to electric vehicle leaders like Tesla, which has found success in producing EVs efficiently and profitably. Tesla’s unconventional approach to both factories and vehicle designs has surpassed Toyota’s traditional methods, prompting Toyota’s deputy chief of global production, Yoshio Nakamura, to acknowledge…
Toyota engineers are working on a unique feature for electric cars – a realistic fake manual transmission. Although a manual transmission on an electric vehicle serves no functional purpose, it is being developed as an add-on for those who enjoy shifting gears in gasoline-powered cars. Toyota, known for its skepticism towards electric vehicles, is planning…
Reports of data breaches resulting in the leakage of millions of user data are not uncommon. However, it is less common for a company to unintentionally publish millions of user data online.Recently, Toyota Motor announced a cybersecurity case that involved its subsidiary, Toyota Connected, where part of the information about 2.15 million users was accidentally…
Automobile manufacturing giant, Toyota has said that demand for its cars, trucks, and EVs remains high, despite a fall in US sales. As reported by Business Insider Africa, the world’s largest automaker by volume was among the major manufacturers to release third-quarter US sales data on Monday. The data showed an overall decline of 7.1%…
Toyota Motor Corp’s profit slumped a worse-than-expected 42% in its first quarter as the Japanese automaker was squeezed between supply constraints and rising costs. As reported by Reuters, operating profit for the three months ended June 30 sank to 578.66 billion yen ($4.3 billion) from 997.4 billion yen in the same period a year ago,…
