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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The Japanese car giant is to build its Prius hybrid vehicle in China, to carve out a niche in the world's fastest-growing car market.
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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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Japan&#39;s top automaker Toyota Motor Corp. will begin making its ecological hybrid model in China by the end of 2005, the first overseas assembly for the company&#39;s Prius vehicle.
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Al Shugart, a pioneer in the computer disk drive industry and one of Silicon Valley's most colorful entrepreneurs, has died. He was 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 is confident of retaining its leading position in hybrid cars despite growing competition, the Japanese firm&#39;s chairman said Monday ahead of the International Motor Show (IAA) here.
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Toyota Motor Corp.&#39;s Prius hybrid has been voted 2005 European Car of the Year, Japan&#39;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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Honda introduced the gas-electric car to America, but Toyota's Prius became the synonym for 'hybrid.' Here's how Honda hopes to regain its enviro street cred.
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By Charles Griley 56 Of Apple Valley Griley and A Passenger In Cheng S Car Lucia Demeester 58 Of Poway Were Pronounced Dead At The Scene Of The Accident The Web Site Said, Desert Dispatch, Barstow, Calif.  Sep.
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The 13th patient to receive the world's first fully implantable artificial heart died Sunday night after an unexpected malfunction in the device made by Abiomed Inc. of Danvers, company officials said yesterday.
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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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By The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Jun. 10--A former Coeur d'Alene resident was killed and his wife, a Spokane native, was seriously injured earlier this month in a head-on crash in California that also took the life of another.   Derrek T.
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A decade after the first Prius went on sale, Toyota's global sales of hybrid vehicles have hit a landmark 1 million, underlining the Japanese automaker's lead in "green" technology that has changed the face of the auto industry.
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By Steve Vantreese, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Jun. 16-- -- Doug Travis' 60 years of service as a conservation educator ended the way he always said they would.   He died.
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A 13-year-old suspected gang member driving a stolen Toyota was killed by police early Sunday after a pre-dawn chase in which he rammed an LAPD patrol car, authorities said.
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TOKYO Toyota Motor, the world&#39;s largest producer of gasoline-electric vehicles, said Wednesday that it would assemble its hybrid cars in China in response to Beijing&#39;s effort to develop more fuel-efficient models.