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2024 Toyota Grand Highlander Hybrid Model Overview

The 2024 Toyota Grand Highlander Hybrid is a full-size sport utility vehicle with ample room for up to seven passengers and a generous 97.5 cubic feet of cargo space. With four available trims - the XLE, Limited, MAX Limited, and MAX Platinum - you can find the perfect configuration to match your needs and preferences in Augusta, ME.

 

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Fuel Cell Ahead: Digging into Alternative Energy with Teens

The name Toyota often brings up thoughts of advancement and change. With a model as revolutionary as the Prius that has helped to bring the idea of hybrid vehicles to the mainstream, Toyota is continuing to push the boundaries within the automotive industry.

In 2015 Toyota began to sell their first mass produced fuel cell vehicle, the Mirai. While they are not the first manufacturer to create fuel cell vehicles, but they are the first bring them into mass figure out and outline the problem that we all face, build a feasible solution for that problem, and finally test out…

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Toyota Helps Species Threatened with Extinction by Partnering with IUCN

The Toyota Environmental Challenge 2050 launched last October, as a series of goals and challenges to help reduce the impact of automobiles on the planet's health.

"When tackling threats to the global environment, it is important to act early and boldly with concrete steps that will make a difference in people’s lives," said Didier Leroy, Executive Vice President of Toyota Motor Corporation. "We did it in 1997

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Toyota's Prius Car Chase Commercial May Just Be Real!

Toyota's recent Super Bowl commercial, "The Longest Chase," depicts a Prius manned by a group of fugitives outrunning the cops. To catch them, the police must bring in a hybrid car of their own.

It sounds like a fantasy, but in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, it's real life.

Hybrid Law from Peter Byck on Vimeo.

The short documentary film, "Hybrid Law," follows the Arkadelphia Police Department as they transition from using outdated Crown Victoria police cruisers to the Toyota Camry Hybrid.

Old fashioned veteran officer Don Cleek says when he heard about the hybrids, he was "dead set against it…

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Toyota Helps Red-Tailed Hawks

The red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) is not an endangered species. In fact, if you've ever looked up and seen a circling hawk, we can guess with a high degree of confidence that it was a red-tail.

However, just because they're common doesn't mean that a nature-loving corporation like Toyota will ignore their plight when a pair nests on a dangerous utility pole at the Toyota Arizona Proving Grounds (TAPG).

Employees at TAPG were worried right away when these beautiful hawks took up residence on a pole carrying high-voltages. They were delighted, but worried.

All too soon, these…

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