TOKYO (Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) on Tuesday said it expects profit to drop 80% to its lowest in nine years, as Japan’s biggest automaker grapples with the impact of the novel coronavirus which has sapped global demand for vehicles. Global automaker... More »
TOKYO (Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) said on Monday that it would extend a suspension at all of its factories in Europe with the exception of Russia until further notice, with a restart expected no earlier than April 20. With the spread of the coronavi... More »
BEIJING/TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese automaker Toyota plans to build a new electric vehicle plant in the Chinese city of Tianjin with its local partner FAW Group, a document from the local authorities showed. The joint venture between Toyota and FAW plans to inv... More »
TOKYO (Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) and Panasonic Corp (6752.T) have agreed to set up a joint venture that will begin developing electric vehicle (EV) batteries from April, as the Japanese companies gear up for an expected surge in demand. The new com... More »
TOKYO (Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp unveiled an emergency safety system on Monday that uses big data to ignore the accelerator if it determines the driver steps on the pedal unintentionally. Japan’s biggest car maker will roll out what it calls an “accelerator... More »
(This July 4 story corrects to remove reference to self-driving push in headline) BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s top search engine operator Baidu Inc has joined hands with Zhejiang Geely Holding Group and Japan’s Toyota Motor Corp to cooperate on areas related to... More »
BEIJING (Reuters) – Japan’s Toyota Motor Corp said on Sunday it was setting up a research institute in Beijing in partnership with Tsinghua University to study car technology using hydrogen power and other green technologies that could ease environmental probl... More »
TOKYO (Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp, one of the world’s largest automakers, and Japan’s space agency said on Tuesday they had agreed to cooperate in developing a manned lunar rover that runs on fuel cell technologies. Although Japan has no plan currently to ma... More »
TOKYO (Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) and Suzuki Motor Corp (7269.T) agreed on Thursday to produce cars for each other in India as Toyota aims to increase its market share in the world’s fifth-largest passenger car market. The agreement follows an R&D t... More »
FILE PHOTO: View of a Toyota logo on a wheel at the Mondial de l’Automobile, Paris auto show, during media day in Paris, France, September 30, 2016. REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen/File Photo TOKYO (Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) on Monday said it will market mo... More »
Japan's Toyota Motor Corp is seeking more investments in Israeli robotics and vehicle technologies after its venture arm led a $14 million investment in Intuition Robotics in July. More »
In a crowded field of more than 240 startups in self-driving cars, six companies -- four of them in Silicon Valley -- have achieved unicorn status, with valuations of $1 billion or more, according to industry estimates and publicly available data. Here's a clo... More »
Toyota Motor Corp's trading arm became the latest participant in ride-hailing firm Grab's current financing round that is expected to raise $2.5 billion, led by Chinese peer Didi Chuxing and Japan's SoftBank Group Corp. More »
President of the Toyota Motor Corporation Akio Toyoda delivers a speech before signing a partnership deal with the International Paralympic Committee in Tokyo, November 26, 2015. REUTERS/Thomas Peter Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) may consider mergers or acquisiti... More »
A Blackberry sign is seen in front of their offices on the day of their annual general meeting for shareholders in Waterloo, Canada in this June 23, 2015 file photo. REUTERS/Mark Blinch/Files BlackBerry Ltd on Monday downplayed news that Toyota Motor Corp woul... More »
A model demonstrates Toyota Motor Corp’s rehabilitation robot Welwalk WW-1000, designed to aid in the rehabilitation of individuals with lower limb paralysis, in Tokyo, Japan April 12, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai Japanese automakers are looking beyond the industr... More »
A model demonstrates Toyota Motor Corp’s rehabilitation robot Welwalk WW-1000, designed to aid in the rehabilitation of individuals with lower limb paralysis, in Tokyo, Japan April 12, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai Toyota Motor Corp said it will commercialize rehab... More »
The logo of Toyota is pictured at the 38th Bangkok International Motor Show in Bangkok, Thailand March 28, 2017. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) on Thursday said it was recalling a total of about 2.9 million vehicles in Japan, China, Eur... More »
A logo of Toyota Motor Corp is seen at the company’s showroom in Tokyo, Japan June 14, 2016. REUTERS/Toru Hanai/File Photo Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) on Wednesday said it had agreed to a more modest wage rise than last year, as uncertainties about the global b... More »
Toyota Motor Corp. displays the company’s Prius PHV Plug-in-Hybrid vehicle, also known as Prius Prime in the U.S., during an event to mark the launch of the car in Japan, in Tokyo, Japan February 15, 2017. REUTERS/Issei Kato Toyota Motor Corp’s chairman, who l... More »
Toyota Motor Corp President Akio Toyoda (L) and Suzuki Motor Chairman and CEO Osamu Suzuki attend their joint news conference in Tokyo, Japan, October 12, 2016. REUTERS/Toru Hanai/File Photo Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) and Suzuki Motor Corp (7269.T) said on Mon... More »
A man looks at Toyota Motor Corp’s Estima Hybrid model at its headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, February 6, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) reported a drop in quarterly operating profit on Monday but still added 9.7 percent to its full-year... More »
FILE PHOTO – Akio Toyoda, president of Toyota Motor Corporation, speaks during the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., January 9, 2017. REUTERS/Mark Blinch/File Photo Japan is scrambling to respond to intensifying trade pressure ... More »
Japan’s top government spokesman on Monday denied media reports that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe would meet Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) President Akio Toyoda on Feb. 3 ahead of the premier’s visit to the United States next week. More »
Visitors walk past a logo of Toyota Motor Corp on a Toyota Prius hybrid vehicle at the company’s showroom in Tokyo August 5, 2014. REUTERS/Yuya Shino/File Photo Toyota Motor Corp’s (7203.T) four-year run as the world’s top-selling automaker has ended as the Ja... More »
Toyota Motor Corp’s Kirobo Mini robot is pictured during a photo opportunity after a news conference in Tokyo, Japan, September 27, 2016. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon Toyota Motor Corp on Monday unveiled a doe-eyed palm-sized robot, dubbed Kirobo Mini, designed as a... More »
TOKYO Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) said on Monday it would halt production at all car assembly plants in Japan from Feb. 8 to Feb. 13 due to a steel shortage following an explosion at a steel plant of one of its affiliates. The world’s biggest automaker said on ... More »
DETROIT Toyota Motor Corp is collaborating with two top U.S. universities on artificial intelligence and robotics research aimed at ramping up the Japanese automaker’s efforts to develop self-driving cars. Toyota said on Friday that it would spend $50 million ... More »
TOKYO Tokyo prosecutors plan to release former Toyota Motor Corp executive Julie Hamp from custody after she was arrested last month on suspicion of illegally importing the painkiller Oxycodone into Japan, Kyodo News reported on Tuesday. Japan’s daily Yomiuri ... More »
