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Toyota: Here and There
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"Engineering"
100

Toyota currently sells these four types of electrified vehicles.

What are BEV, HEV, FCEV, and PHEV?

100

A BEV substitutes this traditional energy source for electricity.

What is gasoline?

100

This Toyota manufacturing facility was the first-ever constructed in the United States.

What is TMMK?

100

The 2025 Lexus LX700h is the first hybrid Toyota vehicle to come standard with this device which is necessary on non-electrified Toyota vehicles.

What is a starter motor?

100

Like many other professionals, this is Engineers' favorite thing to make.

What is money?

200

These two midwestern Toyota manufacturing facilities are home to Toyota's future Battery Pack production lines.

What are TMMK and TMMI?

200

BEV's use these to change energy into the motion used to propel the vehicle.

What is a motor?

200

This many hours are between Toyota's PEMC and Japan's time zones.

What is 13 hours?

200

In 2021, this Croatian automotive manufacturer merged with Bugatti after developing a BEV capable of exceeding 170mph while reversing.

What is Rimac? (Rimac Nevera)

200

The University of Kentucky offers this many engineering degrees.

What is 12?

300

Toyota EV and HEV battery cells begin their lifecycle at a new facility in this U.S. state.

What is North Carolina?

300

This phrase is used to describe the gradual loss of capacity of an electrified vehicle's electricity storage device.

What is battery degradation?

300

Toyota stopped all manufacturing of vehicles and engines on this continent in 2017.

What is Australia?

300

This is the most expensive Lexus vehicle ever sold in the US, being listed for sale with a base MSRP of $375,000.

What is the Lexus LFA?

300

This metric is used during early design to advise various design decisions, and can be calculated by dividing failure stress by the working stress.

What is the Factor of Safety?

400

This 3D drawing is used by Toyota BPPE engineers for planning and space illustrations of production equipment.

What is the Digital Factory?

400

The popularization of BEV's has encouraged tire manufactures to develop new products which aim to reduce these two characteristics.

What are rolling resistance and noise?

400

Toyota's PEMC building earned this esteemed sustainability certification.

What is LEED certification?

400

This Japanese word has become synonymous with Toyota's mindset for "continuous improvement"

What is kaizen?

400

This type of engineering is maliciously employed by scammers and fake news outlets to deceive and manipulate people.

What is social engineering?

500

To better serve its customers' needs, Toyota plans to use this strategy for planning future products.

What is "Multi Pathway?"

500

Beginning for 2025 model years, Toyota BEV's use this charging standard for charging adapters.

What is NACS?

500

The Toyota Ellipses logo symbolizes this.

What is the unification of the hearts of our customers and the heart of Toyota products?

500

The make and model of BEV which currently shares development and platforms with Toyota's only USDM BEV's, BZ and RZ.

What is Subaru Solterra?

500

Originating from the steam era, "engineer" is the title given to operators of these large transportation devices.

What are trains?