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Toyota is preparing to launch an electric version of its best-selling Corolla, featuring a new design and multiple powertrains including battery electric, hybrid, and plug-in hybrid.

Toyota plans to deploy 400,000 humanoid robots in its factories by 2028, with workers training the robots, emphasizing human-robot coexistence rather than replacement.

Toyota's enterprise AI team uses LangSmith and Deep Agents to scale AI agent development, reducing production time from 6 months to 4 days and deploying over 50 agents.

Toyota builds manufacturing agents using LangChain and utilizes LangSmith to monitor and fix issues like failed tool calls and broken pipelines, ensuring smooth production operations.

Ars Technica reviews the 2026 Toyota RAV4 plug-in hybrid, highlighting its 52-mile electric range and 324-hp combined output, with trim-specific efficiency differences.

Toyota's enterprise AI team shared the ToyotaGPT platform at the Interrupt conference. Based on LangGraph and LangSmith, it reduced AI agent delivery from 6 months to 4 days, and has over 50 agents running in production, saving millions of dollars.

EV sales rebounded in Q2 2026 due to high gas prices, with Tesla leading the recovery, though overall sales remain down year-over-year. Toyota and Subaru showed strong growth, while automakers that cut EV models saw sharp declines.

Ars Technica reviews the 2026 Toyota C-HR, a small electric crossover with bold styling and a sporty character, noting its compact size, twin-motor AWD, and competitive pricing compared to the bZ4x.

New research from Toyota analyzing over 6,000 RAV4 Prime and Lexus NX 450h+ vehicles finds that plug-in hybrid owners plug in and charge their vehicles more often than commonly assumed, challenging the narrative that PHEV drivers rarely use the electric range.