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jalopnik.com - 2/25/2009
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Toyota Style Australia apparently missed the company memo mandating all Camrys and hybrids remain boring as plain oatmeal, as they've whipped up the dangerously cool looking Toyota HC-CV Concept for the Melbourne Motor Show . The far flung wild children on the island of misfits have taken it ...
blog.wired.com - 2/25/2009
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As Toyota looks towards a greener future, it
is exploring ways of using plastic derived from plants...
such as seaweed. They think it's only a matter of time before automakers use bioplastics to build ultralight cars that take less petroleum to make, and ...
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Toyota Wants to Build Car From Seaweed
blogs.cars.com - 3/3/2009
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There I was checking out the all-new 2010
Toyota Prius, the most hybrid of all hybrid cars...
around, and one feature surprised me more than anything. No, it wasn’t the solar panel roof or the remote start for the A/C. It was the Touch Tracer ...
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2010 Toyota Prius Touch Tracer Display
earth2tech.com - 2/26/2009
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earth2tech.com —
Japan Mulls Feed-In Tariff : Japan’s Ministry of
Economy, Trade and Industry is pushing for a feed-in...
tariff that would guarantee a price (to be paid by utilities) for surplus electricity from residential solar systems for about a decade. ...
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Toyota looking to build next hybrid from seaweed
CrunchGear —
... they don’t break down. One would assume that Toyota would use the type that doesn’t break down, for obvious reasons. The biggest improvement would be that it uses less oil products, and would be considerably more eco-friendly.
The bad news is, don’t expect to see this for about 15 years. There is a concept car that was seen at an Australian auto show, but it’s not going to be available for a while.
In other news, did you see that Camry concept car? That’s a hybrid that I might even consider driving.
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