Akio Toyoda, president and chief executive of Japan's Toyota Motor Corp for nearly 14 years, will resign from the top job in April to become chairman, handing over the reins to the company's top branding officer. Here's a chronology of key events and milestones in Toyota's history under Toyoda, the 66-yea
Akio Toyoda, president and chief executive of Japan's Toyota Motor Corp for nearly 14 years, will resign from the top job in April to become chairman, handing over the reins to the company's top branding officer.
He pledged to steer the company out of its worst downturn in history, bring greater transparency to its sprawling corporate culture, and take the company"back to the basics" of building cars that made people happy. Toyota has said fossil fuels, not internal combustion engines, are the problem. As well as the hybrids it popularised more than two decades ago with the Prius, it also champions hydrogen technology, although that has so far not caught on the way battery-electric vehicles have.
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