Toyota
Sales, Production, and Export Results for February 2025
28 Mar 2025
Toyota Motor Corporation announces its sales, production, and export results for February 2025, including those for subsidiaries Daihatsu Motor Co., Ltd. and Hino Motors, Ltd.
[Toyota Times] "What Does Monozukuri Mean to the Chairman?" Budding Young Inventors Ask Questions to Chairman Akio Toyoda
26 Mar 2025
This week's Toyota Times News features two stories. How has Rally Mikawa Bay evolved in its second year? At this year's commemoration ceremony, children once more barrage Chairman Akio Toyoda with questions.
[Toyota Times] In Woven City, an Old Plant Gives Life to New Inventions
26 Mar 2025
Inventors from around the world will take part in the Woven City project, which features an innovation base designed for rapid creation and testing.
TMC Announces Changes to Senior Professional/Senior Management Employee Positions
25 Mar 2025
Toyota Motor Corporation announced today that it intends to implement changes to its senior professional/senior management employee positions as described below, effective April 1, 2025.
Safari Rally Kenya: Day 4 Evans delivers TOYOTA GAZOO Racing's fifth Safari win in a row
25 Mar 2025
TOYOTA GAZOO Racing World Rally Team is celebrating a fifth successive victory on Safari Rally Kenya after Elfyn Evans conquered the epic African event for the first time to extend his championship lead.
TGR Launches Partially Upgraded Supra RZ Grade and Special-edition Supra "A90 Final Edition" in Japan
21 Mar 2025
TOYOTA GAZOO Racing (TGR) has launched a partially upgraded model of the Supra RZ Grade today, March 21, at Toyota dealerships across Japan. In addition, the lottery for the special-edition Supra "A90
[Toyota Times] Fukushima and Toyota Pursuing a Hydrogen Society Together While Overcoming Challenges
19 Mar 2025
On the 14th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, Toyota Times News looks at the efforts in Fukushima Prefecture to achieve a hydrogen society and how they are facing the challenges that have emerged.
Toyota Automobile Museum to Hold the 35th Classic Car Festival
19 Mar 2025
The Toyota Automobile Museum, a cultural facility of Toyota, will host the 35th Toyota Museum Classic Car Festival on Sunday, April 20, at Expo 2005 Aichi Commemorative Park. The event aims to foster
[Toyota Times] Reinvigorating the Board and Boosting Decision-Making Speed - Why Toyota Has Shifted to an Audit and Supervisory Committee
18 Mar 2025
Toyota has announced a resolution to transition from a Company with an Audit and Supervisory Board to a Company with an Audit and Supervisory Committee. What will this change? Here, Toyota Times provides an explanation on this recent news.
Safari Rally Kenya: Preview African epic marks milestone rally for TOYOTA GAZOO Racing
17 Mar 2025
TOYOTA GAZOO Racing World Rally Team aims to defend its unbeaten record on the iconic Safari Rally Kenya when it contests its 100th event in the FIA World Rally Championship on March 20-23.
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The history of safety glass
By Kiron Kasbekar | 26 Mar 2025
You probably already knew that the world’s VIPs move around in cars with bullet-proof glass windscreen and windows. But did you know that ‘bulletproof glass’ is not really bulletproof?
German silver: used in cutlery, music, electricals - but it’s not silver
By Kiron Kasbekar | 20 Mar 2025
This material, which was first developed in China, not Germany, and is an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc, has lost its sheen in home uses, but finds favor in electrical engineering.
Pioneers – the Wrights and Glenn Curtiss launched the aircraft industry
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
First Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their plane, the ‘Wright Flyer’, from near a small town called Kitty Hawk. Then Glenn Curtiss built planes with a very different system of controls, which has lasted until now.
What do aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles?
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
From chains and sprockets to direct drives—If someone asked you what aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles, how would you respond?
Radar’s ancestors: From sound mirrors to modern detection technology
By Kiron Kasbekar | 11 Mar 2025
Radar has become a well-settled technology today, especially in the field of navigation.
Nokia Bell Labs: innovations in communication, computing, technology
By Omar Almeida | 08 Mar 2025
Bell Laboratories, or Bell labs, which has now become Nokia Bell Labs, is one of the most renowned research and development organizations in the history of science and technology.
Company story – Quaker Oats
By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.
How Quaker Oats grabbed customers’ attention
By Kiron Kasbekar | 07 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats, the American food products giant that was created in 1901 through the merger of many older oat millers, and was acquired by a bigger foods giant, Pepsi, in 2001, has been an innovative company. One example of its innovativeness shows in its packaging – the cereal box it launched in 1915.
Company story – Cunard Line
By Kiron Kasbekar | 12 Jan 2024
The Cunard Line started its life in Glasgow in 1839 as the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company when Samuel Cunard was awarded the first British transatlantic steamship mail contract.
