Toyota’s Plug-In Hybrid Prius and RAV4 Drop “Prime” Names
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Toyota Drops Meaningless Name for Plug-In Hybrids
Sep 26, 2024 at 10:30am ET “Prime” is dead. Toyota announced on Thursday that its naming scheme for plug-in hybrid trims of the RAV4 and Prius has been dropped. Instead, the cars will be called the RAV4 Plug-in Hybrid and the…
Toyota Yaris iA Vs. Mazda 2: Are They The Same Car?
Badge engineering has been a go-to cost-cutting move in the automotive industry for decades, even affecting nameplates previously considered sacred — looking at you, “Toyota” (or should we say BMW?) Supra. While most manufacturers still keep their flagships in-house, the…
Bosses at Tesla’s German Gigafactory are reportedly knocking on some workers’ doors when they’re at home sick
Elon Musk said on X that he’d investigate rising rates of illness at Tesla’s Berlin plant.Christian Marquardt – Pool/Getty Images Tesla workers in Germany have received home visits from managers when out sick, a German newspaper reported. Handelsblatt said illness…
Tanak unsure how to act following FIA sanctions for Ogier, Verstappen
Ott Tänak says it’s “really difficult to know how to act” in interviews following the FIA’s sanctions for comments made by World Rally Championship rival Sebastian Ogier and Formula 1’s Max Verstappen. The Hyundai driver has raised concerns after the…
2024 Toyota GR86 Trueno Edition First Test Review: Same Coupe, Now Oozing JDM Cool
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Johan Grimonprez on Making Jazz a Protagonist in ‘Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat’ and Why “Our Materialist Vision of the World Is Obsolete”
Africa, colonialism, the United Nations, the 1961 assassination of Congolese prime minister Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nikita Khrushchev, Tesla, iPhones, and jazz music come together in director Johan Grimonprez’s Soundtrack to a…
Getting Infinite Data by 2080 to Improve SuperAI
A deep discussion of the developments with AI and the upcoming 2025 Tesla Dojo 2 and 2026 Dojo 3 chips. But AI needs compute and data. Won’t AI reach a limit as we use up human created data? What if…
WWE Raw Results: Winners, Live Grades, Reaction and Highlights From Sept. 23
Erik BeastonSeptember 23, 2024 WWE Raw Results: Winners, Live Grades, Reaction and Highlights From Sept. 23 0 of 10 WWE/Getty Images On the road to Bad Blood on October 5, WWE Raw rolled into the Toyota Center in Ontario, California,…
Toyota Ventures’s Jim Adler says climate tech startups need to secure future buyers
Jim Adler, founder and general partner at Toyota Ventures, is concerned that climate technology gains could fall into the “valley of death” if companies fail to drum up enough demand to survive. And he’s not wrong to be worried. Climate…