O'Brien Toyota Scion

With the 2012 Toyota Plug-In Prius fast approaching, there's no like the present to test the car's capabilities. And, that's exactly what Toyota is doing. In fact, the Japanese automaker has just released initial results from testing done with the cooperation of EDF Energy, in London.

While the demonstration isn't complete yet, interim findings show that London-based businesses and organizations participating in the three-year testing have logged an average journey distance of seven-point-three miles, an average speed of 17.7 mph, and an average recharge time of one hour and twelve minutes. Participants with access to…

Toyota is on track to roll out their 17,000 solar panel project estimated at ? 10m (~$16,450,785) after local authorities in Derbyshire, England gave them a go. A lot is already in the works with 90,000 square meters of industrial land that Toyota has start to make room for the solar panels.

"Generating solar power on-site to supply electricity to the plant underlines our commitment to do even more to further reduce our carbon footprint and is yet another example of our environmental leadership,"¹ says Tony Walker, Deputy Managing Director, Toyota Manufacturing UK.

If Toyota's…

Oh rumors... they start, they spread, they grow, they spread some more. Have you heard the one about the new Toyota Prius v hybrid being delayed for up to a year?

No doubt this was an imaginative spin-off of official news that the Toyota Prius alpha hybrid minivan will be slightly delayed.  O'Brien Toyota Scion, would like to put the record straight. The Prius v hatch is still on schedule to arrive on showroom floors this fall.

Given the rapid rate rumors spread in today's hyper-media savvy world, Toyota quickly caught wind of the false rumor and was…