Toyota Motor Corp closed its joint manufacturing plant with General Motors Co in California after about 25 years of operation as a symbol of cooperation between the top US and Japanese automakers.

Depending on whom you ask, this tiny company is either the next big thing in automobiles, or a maker of glorified golf carts.What is indisputable is that as the whole automotive world seems to be racing suddenly toward the age of electricity, the Reva Electric Car Company is in the lead, ahead of better-known local competitors like Tata Motors and global giants like General Motors and Toyota, The New York Times’s Vikas Bajaj writes.Daimler and Toyota are supposed to start trials of electric vers

Toyota has become the first auto-maker to take part in a project aiming to create the first fully functioning smart grid-enabled city in the world . As part of Xcel Energy’s SmartGridCity™ project, Toyota will place 10 Prius plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHVs) in Boulder, Colorado. The cars will be the focus of a research project coordinated by the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI), a new joint venture between the US Department of Energy’s Natio

The electric car race will be on in Tokyo this week at the Tokyo Motor Show. Expect production and concept debuts from Nissan, Honda and Toyota, according to wire service AFP. But there will be some automakers missing from the show. Several, including General Motors and Hyundai, dropped out. Nissan plans to start building vehicles in Russia by the end of 2012, using a plant that belongs to its Russian partner Avtovaz. Annually, Nissan plans to make 70,000 Bluebird Sylphly small sedan ? curren

Toyota FT-86 concept.The 2009 Tokyo Motor Show opens to the press on Oct. 21. Once the premier auto show in Asia, the Tokyo event this year has been dramatically reduced in size. Many of the major American and European automakers are skipping it. But Japanese automakers are continuing to support the show with important introductions of new models. Here is one of a series of reports about each manufacturer.CHIBA, Japan — It has been a while since Toyota, which has killed its sports coupes like th