Toyota and Tesla said that they will jointly develop electric vehicles and share expertise, such as Tesla's electric-vehicle technologies and Toyota's production know-how. As the first step, the two firms aim to develop a prototype based on a current Toyota model using Tesla's lithium-ion-battery-based system.

Toyota is to invest $50m in electric car maker Tesla, as the two firms announce a partnership to build electric vehicles.

Toyota's first production vehicle powered by a hydrogen fuel cell will be a sedan model with the range of a gasoline model, said a company executive last week. It will be priced at roughly $50,000, and go on sale in 2015. That's more expensive than upcoming electric vehicles like the 2011 Nissan...

Top Japanese carmakers Toyota and Nissan helped set up a group to standardize fast-charge stations for electric cars on Monday in a bid to promote the spread of the zero-emission vehicles. The group, led by Japan's biggest utility, Tokyo Electric Power, Toyota Motor,

Toyota Prius is a marvel and wunderkind virtuoso hybrid electric mid-size car innovated by Toyota Motors. Its latest version has been sold extensively in Japan by May ‘09, with a record sale of 1.2 million Prius cars.

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The Toyota FT-EVII is a new electric concept car based on the iQ platform. (Credit: Automotive News