japanese car Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 21:43:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Toyota Crown in Japan Gets a Hybrid Upgrade https://www.greenoptimistic.com/toyota-crown-in-japan-gets-a-hybrid-upgrade-20130104/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/toyota-crown-in-japan-gets-a-hybrid-upgrade-20130104/#respond Fri, 04 Jan 2013 21:43:09 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=30768 Here in the US, since 1989, we have seen Lexus, Toyota’s luxury brand here in the US, grow from one model, the flagship LS 400, to fifteen models today. Lexus has led the luxury vehicle revolution here in the US ever since. In Japan, though, there is no Lexus name plate. There is, however, the […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/toyota-crown-in-japan-gets-a-hybrid-upgrade-20130104/feed/ 0 30768 Japanese Hydrogen + Gasoline Car Prototype Unveiled https://www.greenoptimistic.com/japanese-hydrogen-gasoline-car-prototype-unveiled-20121001/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/japanese-hydrogen-gasoline-car-prototype-unveiled-20121001/#respond Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:24:53 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=26323 According to Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai World News, a private firm in Tokyo, Japan, has built an alternative fuel vehicle that runs on both hydrogen and gasoline. They converted a standard gasoline-powered Suzuki car to run on either fuel. Upgrades included the addition of a hydrogen tank and injector, as well as a control module to […]

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