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Toyota Motor Corporation is a Japanese multinational automaker, the world's largest by sales volume, selling vehicles under the Toyota and Lexus brands.
Cox Automotive's third-quarter count of almost 263,000 US EV sales is about 40% below the tax-credit rush of a year earlier. Europe registered 277,006 in July alone, so a US plan should start from 263,000 and treat 2025 as a one-off.
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Lexus Korea launched the eighth-generation ES on Oct. 13 with its first electric version, the ES 350e, starting at 71.6 million won. It priced the 350e Premium 1.3 million won under the matching hybrid, Seoul Economic Daily reported.
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Some months-old 2026 Toyota Rav4s are listing for $3,000 to $6,000 above new dealer prices, according to CarGurus data. Toyota cannot build the hybrids fast enough, so sellers of nearly new ones are asking shoppers to pay to skip the wait.
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BYD executive vice president Stella Li said geopolitics is the biggest obstacle to the carmaker's growth abroad, speaking at a Milken Institute summit. She said long-term investment needs visibility, so the uncertainty now shapes where BYD builds and where it holds back.
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OpenChain released Automotive SBOM Framework 1.0 on October 7, fixing the fields a software inventory must carry between automakers and suppliers. Whether it helps depends on every supplier tier filling those fields the same way in real exchanges.
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GM, which sells one hybrid model, gave no date for more as hybrids rose to 19% of US vehicle sales in August from 16% before the war, according to JD Power. Record hybrid quarters went to Japanese and Korean rivals, while GM's last stated target for new hybrids is 2027.
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US-built cars fell to 28.4% of Canadian new-vehicle sales in the first half of 2026 from 35.4% a year earlier, JD Power Canada data show. Japanese and Korean builders took more than half of that lost share, and the US levy on Canadian cars and parts is expected to reach 50% in January.
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Saudi Arabia's newest carmaker has a plant on the kingdom's west coast and a design brief from the Crown Prince, and PIF wants the cluster around it to lift non-oil exports. Its Saudi supplier base is scheduled to arrive by 2034.
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The Ann Arbor company brings 550,000 commercial autonomous rides and a fully committed $120 million PIPE to a $1.4 billion enterprise value. How much more cash it gets depends on ACP Holdings' shareholders.
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CADDi raised $114 million from eight investors, among them Toyota's Woven Capital and Recruit's HR Tech Fund, at a valuation 2.55 times its March 2025 mark and set against sales its chief executive says are more than doubling each year.
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The Tokyo and Chicago manufacturing software company was valued at $470 million in March 2025 and is now valued at $1.2 billion, with headcount up from 600 to about 900 and more than a hundred of those people employed to get customers to change how they work.
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Jeffrey Brantingham's team traced the 2020 theft surge to twenty Kia and Hyundai models built without engine immobilizers. Their Los Angeles forecast follows those cars as they depreciate into less affluent neighbourhoods.
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Waymo's Jaguar I-Pace cars went live in Nashville on September 9 hailable from either Waymo One or Lyft, and the agreement between the two companies binds neither side exclusively.
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Flexdrive handles vehicle readiness, maintenance and depot operations while the Lyft app gets a Waymo when one is available. Lyft sold its own autonomy unit to Toyota for $550 million in 2021.
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In Foreign Affairs, the former director of Biden's National Economic Council argues Washington has an elaborate apparatus for refusing inbound capital and almost no route to approving it. The two federal measures it names are still proposals.
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Plain API keys leak more than any other credential and still have no standard kill switch, so a draft called ORKS copies OAuth's discoverable revocation endpoint and lets the person who found the key pull it.
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Canadian-built vehicles are 24% of Honda's US sales and 17% of Toyota's, so the January 2027 doubling gives them roughly four months to answer with price on plants that would take years and billions to move.
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The Spanish startup opened the country's first new car plant in more than 30 years, then told TechCrunch a sovereign supply chain is unattainable, which leaves the recyclable body carrying the pitch.
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The reported request arrives three weeks after a near-identical loan closed, which says more about how the $40bn bridge underneath gets refinanced than any single facility does. SoftBank has not commented.
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Toyota, Daimler Truck and Volvo will each hold 33.3% of the fuel-cell venture. Hyundai still has the only mass-produced hydrogen heavy truck, and Korean industry says technology alone will not hold the lead.
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