Toyota Transportation

• Toyota is developing and producing clean energy vehicles, including hybrid, electric, compressed natural gas, and fuel cell electric vehicles. Since the first generation Toyota Prius was introduced to the North American market in 2000, Toyota and Lexus have sold over 400,000 hybrid vehicles in North America, including Prius, Lexus RX 400h, Highlander Hybrid, Lexus GS450h, and the Camry Hybrid. 
  
• Over the past decade, Toyota's new automobile fleets have consistently achieved higher fleet average fuel economy than both the industry average and the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standard required by U.S. law for both car and non-passenger (light truck and SUV) fleets.
  

• Toyota is part of the California Fuel Cell Partnership, a unique collaboration of auto manufacturers, energy companies, fuel cell companies, and government agencies. The partnership's goal is to advance and evaluate new automobile technology that can move the world toward practical and affordable environmental solutions.
  
  In December 2002, Toyota began leasing its fuel cell vehicle, the FCHV, in the United States and Japan. A total of 19 are now in service. Four are with the University of California, three are with corporate users, two are at Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc., and 10 with Japanese government agencies and private companies.  Since their introduction, FCHVs in the US have accumulated over 100,000 miles of real-would use.  The University of California, Irvine and the University of California, Davis use the vehicles to test different aspects of consumer acceptance and market dynamics of fuel cell vehicles.  Key findings include, consumer concern about the vehicle's limited range and the lack of hydrogen fueling stations.

• Toyota is also part of the Canadian Transportation Fuel Cell Alliance (CTFCA) a public/private initiative to demonstrate and analyze fuel cell fueling options for fuel cell vehicles in Canada.     
  

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