Toyota Marin

NEW YORK, NY (March 16, 2011; Posted at 3:15 PM EDT)

Regarding Toyota's North American operations, so far the impact is limited. All 13 North American vehicle and engine plants are running normally, although overtime has been curtailed for now to assure we maintain adequate inventories of parts that come from Japan. In addition, since most parts and materials for Toyota's North American-built vehicles are provided by suppliers in North America, this

Toyota is catching the wind in its sail and is developing an EV prototype of its IQ. Also in their joint partnership with luxury EV maker Tesla Motors Inc. they are working at an electric version of its RAV4 compact SUV. The EV prototype will presented at the Geneva auto Show in March and both iQ EV and RAV4 EV are scheduled to hit the U.S. roads in 2012.

But Toyota is staying on