Tag: Toyota
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Maruti Suzuki sales decline in March due to coronavirus; Lockdown to worsen auto industry’s condition
Sales of India’s largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India fell 16 percent in the last financial year as the auto industry, already under pressure from a sluggish economy and thin demand, was hit by the spread of coronavirus. Maruti, which has a 50 percent share in the Indian passenger car market, sold 1.56 million vehicles in…
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Toyota runs on clouds and will use wireless car charging
Toyota is using cloud computing in their cars. Last month on April 18, Toyota Announce Strategic Partnership with Microsoft on Next-Generation Telematics. It can encompass GPS systems, energy management and other multimedia technologies. Toyota vechilce will use web services on cloud-computing platform. Toyota Motor has invested in and has signed an agreement with WiTricity to…
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Parts Shortage affects Car Production
Japan’s quake affected automobile industry and major car manufacturer has shortage in spare parts. In India, auto experts think it may not affect because of localization of supply and small dependence on Japan, as some parts coming from Thailand. Japanese carmakers Suzuki and Honda were anticipating similar problems in sourcing critical parts from home companies.…
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Web services in cars: Microsoft integrates it in Toyota vehicles
Internet technology is growing fast and next 10 years, hardly there is any desktop software. With onset of cloud computing, you can imagine every computer device can use software on the internet without much use of local resources. Recently there is a news, Microsoft will use web services in Toyota vehicles. The partnership will develop…
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Faulty car engine components in the new car. Check out if your car is defective
Honda’s Indian subsidiary will recall over 50,000 of cars to replace a defective part that could stall engine restarts and will affect new Hond city cars. This is second recall by the Japanese major since last January when it recalled 8,532 City cars made in 2007 to replace defective power window switches that could cause…