In the U.S., the app increased PHEV owner satisfaction by 16 percentage points, bringing satisfaction to 100%.

Plug-in hybrids offer efficiency and power benefits, but drivers need to charge them properly to take full advantage; ...

Some plug-in hybrids rarely get plugged in, making them very inefficient. Toyota used science to find a way to get around ...

The Toyota Research Institute is looking to leverage driver data to build a super powerful car-charging reminder app.

You commute a short distance every day but feel that there’s no need to charge your plug-in hybrid daily. Data shows that over 60% of PHEV owners do not charge at the recommended frequency, resulting ...

Toyota introduced a new “science-backed” app that rewards EV and plug-in hybrid (PHEV) drivers for charging their vehicles. Why?

Last year, and not coincidentally, right around this time, I became the proud owner of a 2024 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid. When I bought the car, the dealership walked me through setting up the Toyota App, ...

Toyota has created a new, science-backed app to encourage drivers of electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids to charge more often. Toyota's own research found that many PHEV drivers weren't plugging in ...

Plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) are essentially a bridge between a gasoline vehicle and an electric one, but they only fulfill that function if they’re regularly plugged in. The Toyota Research Institute (TRI ...

The Toyota Research Institute’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence division has developed a prototype smartphone app it ...