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Toyota Looks At Green Design On YouTube

Thanks to its Prius model, Toyota’s often been connected to “green” movements; Google itself even bought and tinkered with a fleet of the hybrids.  Now, through a new channel on YouTube, the automaker is promoting a number of environmentally friendly technologies.

Google Street View Gets Camera Car Fleet

Those of you who like the Google Street View program should celebrate; those who have privacy concerns should stock up on window blinds and baseball caps.  A report indicates that Google’s got at least 30 new Chevy Cobalts, and they appear ready to serve as Street View camera cars.

Google Develops Fleet Of Fuel-Efficient Cars

Want to improve your car’s efficiency?  Maybe you should hand the keys over to Google; in conjunction with Hymotion/A123Systems, the search engine giant has developed “a small fleet of plug-in hybrids,” and the vehicles have demonstrated a striking ability to slurp less gas.

driverTV.com: Only For The Fast

If you don’t have a fast Internet connection, stop reading.  This doesn’t apply to you.  Everyone else, rejoice - driverTV.com, “the only automotive destination designed from the ground up for broadband subscribers” is here; as you might imagine, it’s rather good-looking.

Consumer Dissonance

One trend my firm follows is what we call consumer dissonance.

Toyota Introduces "Hybrid" Social Networking

Social networking is a bandwagon; the number of companies that haven't taken a shot at it is decreasing on what seems like a daily basis. But in its newest incarnation, social networking may have become a reliable and fuel-saving bandwagon: Toyota has gotten on board with a redesigned site for the owners of hybrid vehicles.

Toyota Doubling Up On Hybrids

The popularity of hybrid vehicle models like the Prius has soared along with gasoline prices in North America.

Toyota Plans To Double Hybrid Production

Japanese automaker announced plans to double their hybrid automobile production in 2006 according a new Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun. This plan will take their production levels to 500,000 cars a year.

Toyota's Lexus Tops In Quality

General Motors also places well in the most recent J.D. Power and Associates survey of 2002 model year car owners.

Google Now Worth $80 Billion

John Battelle notes that Google's market capitalization is now just north of 80 billion dollars, making it the largest media company on the planet, overtaking Time Warner.