Manufacturing the Toyota Prius produces more CO2 than normal cars, so the company came up with a novel solution: engineer a new species of flower to plant around factories that reduces the temperature and the energy needed for cooling, thus offsetting the carbon emissions.
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The patriarchy is bad for men too!
Hair dryers, manscaping and eating tofu? That’s no real man. Except, ads focused on a false idea of manhood are just as damaging as the “real women” concept is for females, writes Clem Bastow.
Prius: just another word for hybrid
When people think hybrid, they still think Toyota’s Prius. Perhaps that’s why Honda’s Insight hybrid alternative isn’t setting the market on fire, despite being priced lower.
Toyota’s profits stall as global car industry slows to a crawl
Although Toyota has withstood the worst of the financial crisis, profit growth has all but stalled, writes Glenn Dyer.
GM suffers biggest slump since WW2
General Motors has just endured its worst month for sales since the end of the Second World War, writes Glenn Dyer.
Toyota follows it rivals into a financial ditch
If Toyota thought it was going survive the US car market slowdown, it was wrong, writes Glenn Dyer.
Oz takes Toyota coverage too far
The Australian took a lead yesterday in its reporting of the Toyota deal, but now it seems that it stuck its neck out way too far, writes Margaret Simons.
Oh what diversity! Spinning the hybrid hype
This morning’s newspapers don’t seem to be able to agree on the facts on Rudd’s Toyota hybrid announcement, let alone the weight that should be given to those facts, writes Margaret Simons.
