Toyoda

Inside the house of Toyota founder Kiichiro Toyoda, near Toyota City Since toyoda literally means "fertile rice paddies", changing the name also prevented the company from being associated with old-fashioned farming.

He pointed to comments made by Toyota president Akio Toyoda, who questioned the wisdom of diving head first into an all-electric future.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk thinks hybrid vehicles are just a phase, while Toyota’s chairman and former CEO, Akio Toyoda, has long been skeptical of going all in on fully electric vehicles.

Toyoda assigned R&D legend Shigeki Terashi to kick off the EV reboot.

Toyoda, a third-generation descendant of the founding family who acquired its ownership interest in the company, is credited for building a quality control culture that assisted Toyota in growing into a top carmaker globally.

Toyota’s longtime president and CEO Akio Toyoda is stepping down and handing over the reins of the world’s largest automaker to Lexus chief Koji Sato.

Under former CEO Akio Toyoda, the founder's grandson who became chairman on Apr 1 when Sato took the top job, Toyota saw global demand for battery electrics outstrip its modest estimates.

Chairman Toyoda has also entered Toyota products in these races, often using the alias Morizo Kinoshita to compete (which explains the origin of the hardcore, stripped-down Morizo Edition of the GR Corolla).

Heavyweight climbed after its shareholders rejected a proposal to force Akio Toyoda, grandson of the automaker’s founder, to leave his post as chairman of the board.

Toyoda pointed out that about a billion people in the world live without electricity, and a battery electric model won’t work for them.

Toyota's chairman and former CEO, Akio Toyoda, is at it again: providing the public with a dose of reality that electric vehicles will never dominate the global car market.

All have a dash plaque with Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda's signature.

He named Hiroto Saikawa, former Nissan CEO, and Masakazu Toyoda, an outside director, among others, as persons directly involved in this inside job to oust him.

Indeed, Tesla is now worth more than Toyota and Japan’s six other major car manufacturers combined, Toyoda pointed out.

On June 15, three divisions of American troops, two Marine divisions and one Army division, went ashore on Saipan, and Toyoda committed nearly the entire Japanese Navy to a counterattack.

The investment in Joby Aviation comes as the automaker looks to expand into new sectors as the industry rapidly transforms, with president Akio Toyoda pledging to move the firm “from a car manufacturer to a mobility company“.

TOKYO (AP) — Toyota Chief Executive Akio Toyoda promised Friday that the Japanese auto industry would seek to protect jobs worldwide as it endures the coronavirus pandemic.

Toyoda also opened the brand to different segments to attract a wider audience, giving the green light to such daring cars as the high-performance LC 500 coupé and convertible.

Toyoda wired Ozawa that he was to attack the Americans and annihilate their fleet.

Nissan is considering a list of 10 candidates for Mr. Saikawa’s successor, said Masakazu Toyoda, who leads the company’s nomination committee.