Toyota (-) A Corporate Illumination Document
Toyota Motor Corporation -
The soon to be largest car company in the world that poineered greenwashing through their Prius, the $25,000 chunk of lead acid that gets less MPG then the sporty 1984 Honda CRX.
This page is dedicated to documenting the total BS of the Toyota Motor Corporation. A little less bad is not actually good! We hope to recognize marketing attempts that affect the conceptual reputation of Toyota and placing those next to actual business practices.
Actual Business Practices
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post statistics and data revealing the business activity of Toyota. This would include but is not limited to: annual
investments, job structuring, budget suggestions, properties and assets.What they claim: Toyota's corporate website claims the company will “actively promote countermeasures to global warming, the most serious of the world's environmental issues.”
The truth is: Despite the fact that Toyota's own corporate website warns against the dangers of global warming—calling it “the most serious of the world's environmental issues”—two major auto trade associations of which Toyota is a member are suing to stop California's new law to reduce global warming pollution. Toyota says it recognizes the problem, but it doesn't want to be part of the solution.
At least 13 states are following California's lead in adopting standards that would reduce global warming pollution from new cars. Toyota's trade associations oppose them all.
What they claim: Toyota has spent millions of dollars on ads to position itself as a leader in cutting global warming pollution.
The truth is: Toyota says it has cut polluting emissions from its autos. What the company fails to say is that its fleet-wide global warming pollution is higher today than it was 20 years ago. And now it is attempting to block efforts to raise fuel economy standards that would cut more than 200 million metric tons of global warming pollution in 2020 alone.
http://www.truthabouttoyota.com/- Toyota's new SUV - Bigger and thirstier than the old model. Huh? Toyota?
Marketing
commercials and marketing actions of Toyota that present them as green.Please tell me how 40 MPG and a ton of lead acid is gonna make a better world?? The 1984 CRX with NO lead acid gets 50+ MPG. Whats the deal here?? Its called Greenwashed!!
Again with the hydrogen BS - the fuel of the future, forever in the future.
"and you never plug it in," that's part of the problem dammit.
Toyota does not even make these plants
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What they claim: Toyota's corporate website claims the company will “actively promote countermeasures to global warming, the most serious of the world's environmental issues.”
The truth is: Despite the fact that Toyota's own corporate website warns against the dangers of global warming—calling it “the most serious of the world's environmental issues”—two major auto trade associations of which Toyota is a member are suing to stop California's new law to reduce global warming pollution. Toyota says it recognizes the problem, but it doesn't want to be part of the solution. At least 13 states are following California's lead in adopting standards that would reduce global warming pollution from new cars. Toyota's trade associations oppose them all. What they claim: Toyota has spent millions of dollars on ads to position itself as a leader in cutting global warming pollution. The truth is: Toyota says it has cut polluting emissions from its autos. What the company fails to say is that its fleet-wide global warming pollution is higher today than it was 20 years ago. And now it is attempting to block efforts to raise fuel economy standards that would cut more than 200 million metric tons of global warming pollution in 2020 alone. http://www.truthabouttoyota.com/ |
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one of my sources sez toyota is going all hybrid throughout the company by 2011.
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they are not really innovating--just coasting to profits on three things: HSD, tacoma, reputation.
they're a corporation, aka mafia--of COURSE they're part of the AAMA's lawsuits to prevent expensive and costly features. just like GM cried "we'll go out of business" over seat belts, catalytic converters, etc.
the problem is that corporate charters have ZERO provisions for providing for the public/common good, and to "do no evil."
note- here, Coop America's CSR guide says the AAMA no longer exists, but there naturally are similar front groups knocking wood nowadays.
http://coopamerica.org/programs/rs/profile.cfm?id=233
and here's Toyota's CSR guide-
http://www.coopamerica.org/programs/rs/profile.cfm?id=298
they are part of the "Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers (AAM)"