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Toyota achieves UK car industry first with large scale solar panel array
By Toyota on 2011-06-20 15:42
Key points:
• Solar array at Toyota’s Derbyshire plant to produce 4,600,000 kWh per year
• Joint project between Toyota Manufacturing UK and British Gas
• Saving up to 2,000 tonnes of CO2 per year (equivalent to the weight of 260 London double-decker buses)
• Project further strengthens Toyota Manufacturing UK’s established environmental leadership
Toyota Corolla 1983
It was so much more than a catchy jingle between episodes of McGyver and Beyond 2000. It was also an assurance; constant and soothing. “Everything keeps going right, Toyota.”
And it still is.
32 million Toyota Corollas have been sold worldwide since the first generation Corolla was launched in 1966.
South Africans will be familiar with the 3rd generation Corolla, the first of this line to ever hit its shores and the beginning of this cars enduring legacy in our country. Since 1975, Toyota Corolla has been building its reputation on reliability and affordability.
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They say lightning never strikes twice in the same place - which is good news for Class A crews in the Special Vehicle category at the Toyota Dealer 400, round two of the Absa Off Road Championship, in Mpumalanga on April 8 and 9.
With the Production Vehicle category a potpourri of possibility it would take a brave person to predict a winner at the Toyota Dealer 400, round two of the Absa Off Road Championship, in Mpumalanga on April 8 and 9.
There are some new faces and some returning old friends in the premier SP Class with potential winners coming out of the woodwork. There are 20 SP Class vehicles entered with their number bolstered by teenager Lance Woolridge and Ward Huxtable, in a second factory Ford Racing Ranger, and old stalwarts Hugo and Jaap de Bruyn who return to action after missing last season.
Karoo
4x4s were made to tame rugged and sparse landscapes such as this, but more than the challenging terrain and abundant natural wonder, South Africa’s largest province offers the quiet serenity of open space.
Experience the sheer vastness of the Northern Cape in your Toyota Hilux by exploring its five regions; Diamond Fields, Namakwa, Karoo, Green Kalahari and Kalahari.
The following is just a small sampling of 4x4 trails in the Northern Cape.
The Gauteng sunset
Gauteng evokes all that is city and suburbia.
Barring obstacles posed by potholes and a rainy summer’s day slurry, you’d hardly think it 4x4 territory, but there’s no need for Toyota Hilux drivers to take their off-road aspirations anywhere out of the province.
If you’re Jo’burg based and don’t want to dent the petrol budget, head west towards Bosvark 4x4 Adventures on Robert Broom Drive in Noordheuwel, Krugersdorp.
Last week's earthquake and tsunami in Japan have shocked all of us and our heartfelt thoughts go to all our team members in Japan.
As you can expect it is too soon now to comment on how the events in Japan will influence us at Toyota South Africa Motors (TSAM), but we are happy to confirm that our South African colleagues in Japan and our fellow team members at affiliate companies in the facilities close to the epicenter of the earthquake are safe.
The highly skilled team at the Advanced Battery Lab of Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories has developed a new advanced gas-utilising battery with a discharge capacity nearly three times that of a non-aqueous li-air battery.
Using a mixture of O2 and CO2, the new battery has to be a primary battery because of its difficult electrochemical decomposition in the cathode. However, its high discharge capacity offers the potential for an alternative energy source with the use of a CO2-rich gas and this could be extended to non-lithium systems.
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