Toyota NORI

Fuel economy, nil emissions, use of green materials, and state-of-the-art design: you just name any of these features, and you will find them all in the Toyota NORI concept car. Recently showcased at the LA Auto Show’s 2010 Design Challenge, the concept car contains several solar cells within its PODULAR form to capture and generate supplemental solar energy for the 4-wheel motor.

Contrary to current generation automobiles, the NORI concept features a Podular form that plaits the body and chassis into a single entity, and helps in reducing the overall body weight. The next-gen car, conceived by Craig Kember, Erwin Lui, and Kevin Hunter, makes profuse use of bioplastics technology for strength that uses “nori” (the Japanese word for seaweed) and a carbon fiber weave.

Read More

2015 Toyota Supra

Some may remember, the concept was developed in 2007, but it didn’t take long until the plans were canned due to a priority adjustment in company’s direction.  they were more interested in developing hybrid-focused technology for the everyday motorist. Toyota did think about producing a 3.5-litre V6, high-output, hybrid engine for the Supra concept but saw little interest in chasing the performance segment at the time. However, the sports car will not be «fully green», because Toyota is planning to create more sporting version of Supra, which is possible without the cost of hybrid systems. There is information that a prototype of a future business model will be shown in this year’s motor show in Tokyo. Hybrid FT-HS Sports was originally created as a separate model, and was to appear this year,  economic situation, Toyota has decided to curtail the project until better times. All fans are, a sort of anticipation, or at least hint from Toyota, that really is scheduled to release of a new Supra.

Read More