Toyota Hybrid Pioneer Killed
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Dave Hermance, who led Toyota's hybrid research in the U.S., was killed Saturday in a plane crash.  In Autopia.
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Toyota may provide hybrid technology for Porsche.
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The lean, green Toyota Prius has swapped Sunset Boulevard and the Hollywood Hills for the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah to set a new world land speed record for hybrid powered cars.
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Russell Long already owns a pair of  fuel-efficient hybrid cars -- a Toyota Prius and a Honda Civic  -- but his dream car is not on the market yet: a zippy number  he could plug in to recharge at night that would get over 100  miles per gallon.
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Toyota Motor Corp.'s Prius hybrid has  been voted 2005 European Car of the Year, Japan's top auto  maker said Monday, after the fuel-sipping sedan picked up the  corresponding title in North America in January.
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Larry Rawl, who was chairman of oil giant ExxonMobil during the Exxon Valdez disaster, dies, aged 76.
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Steve Duplantis, a popular PGA Tour caddie known for bringing out the best in his players, was killed early Wednesday when he was struck by a taxi while crossing a street.
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Toyota said Thursday global sales of its hybrid vehicles, first introduced 10 years ago, have topped 1 million, a landmark for the Japanese automaker that leads the world in gas-and-electric cars.
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Henry Bliss alights from a streetcar on the Upper West Side and steps into automotive history when he's hit and killed -- by a cab, of course -- making him the first person in North America to die this way.
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Bill France, the son of NASCAR founder William France, Sr. who is credited with helping grow the stock car racing circuit into a multi-billion dollar U.S. sports phenomenon, died on Monday in Daytona Beach, Florida.
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Nissan Motor Co. plans to sell a hybrid  vehicle developed in-house in 2010, limiting its licensing ties  with Toyota Motor Corp. to the Altima sedan due in the United  States next year, Japanese daily Yomiuri Shimbun reported on  Saturday.
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The move puts Toyota in direct competition with General Motors, which plans to sell its own plug-in hybrid, the Chevrolet Volt, sometime around 2010.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A man who lived more than five months with an artificial heart has died of multiple organ failure, the heart manufacturer said today.
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Toyota&#39;s Landspeed Prius gas-electric hybrid vehicle debuted at Bonneville National Speed Week, Aug. 14-17, 2004, in Bonneville, Utah as the first production hybrid to race across the Bonneville Salt Flats.
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The announcement by Olivier Panis here yesterday that he will retire from racing at the end of the season at the age of 38 to take up a testing role at Toyota not only created a vacancy
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A man who lived for 147 days on a mechanical heart made by Danvers-based Abiomed Inc. died because of complications related to the device, officials said yesterday.
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The Toyota Prius has set a new world land-speed record for hybrid powered cars. The Prius achieved 130.794 mph on a three-mile, Salt Lake course using a standard Hybrid Synergy Drive power-train - a mixture