No question, Toyota , General Electric and BP have burnished their images by publicly hugging trees.
In Japan, auto firm Toyota topped the charts, with a nomination rate of 59%.
Many companies, even Toyota and Honda, build more than one car nameplate from the same platform.
Toyota added Lexus and Scion, and now it plans to build a line around Prius.
His insight was that Toyota focuses on solving small problems quickly, using as little technology as possible.
Toyota hopes many of the 100, 000 Scions it plans to sell will be snapped up by youngsters.
Of course, much of spotlight has been on Toyota's rise in Japan, but Chinese automakers also have ambitions.
Automaker Toyota, maker of the best-selling hybrid Toyota Prius, earned the number one spot.
Hyundai and Suzuki build their small cars in India, and Toyota is considering an India hub.
Toyota has so far managed to sell only a few hundred Priuses per year in China.
That is equivalent to 7% of Toyota's global production target of 7.7 million units for 2011.
Toyota, Nissan some big electronics makers will announce when the market reopens next week.
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This modular approach will in large part determine whether VW can pass Toyota or GM.
Some other mass-market brands also have their equivalent, like the Toyota Safety Connect system.
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Now Toyota sends finished vehicles to sorting docks where they can be grouped by region.
They pushed Toyota and Honda and all the American brands back on their heels.
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Cars like the minivan and Toyota Sedan miss what people in Africa really need.
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These data clearly show the majority of consumers had tremendous confidence in the Toyota brand.
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Now the car is selling so well that Toyota is talking about building them stateside.
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When contacted by CNN, however, a Toyota spokeswoman denied the existence of the project.
Leonhardt thinks Toyota's new Prius is a good first step toward using renewable energy.
Nikkei reports that Toyota hopes to develop a vehicle powered entirely by solar panels.
Shares of major exporters Toyota and Suzuki Motors, which rely heavily on overseas sales, were higher.
For all that, though, Whitman is buying Toyota Industries because it owns 5% of Toyota Motors.
Toyota is accepting nonprofit nominations on the official Toyota Facebook page through March 21, 2011.
Toyota has idled all plants through Wednesday, according to the Detroit Free Press.
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"It's OK to have a system that works, " explained Toyota's technical director Pascal Vasselon.
That lower dollar price will help Toyota to sell more cars and earn more yen.
But Dunne adds Toyota is slowly regaining customer trust after a series of recalls.
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