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Toyota has been known for resisting the EV transition, but things are about to change big time. In a surprising move, the companyannouncedon Tuesday that it would have 30 EV models available by 2030, aiming to sell globally 3.5 million electric vehicles by the same year. Plus… it will invest $18 billion(¥2 trillion) in battery development. And wait for it: Toyota will fully electrify its luxury sub-brand Lexus by 2035. In fact, Lexus wants its EVs to account for100% of the total sales in Europe, North America, and China already by 2030....

As of October 1, the Japanese automakerhas launcheditsC+walk electric scooter, designed to help people in walking areas both indoors and outdoors. It’s a standing-type model that slots into the C+walk walking-area mobility series, which will also include seated-type and wheelchair-linked-type vehicles. A removable lithium-ion battery allows the C+walk to travel about 14km on a single charge, and it needs some 2.5 hours to recharge from zero to full. Users can set the scooter’s maximum traveling speed via a speed adjustment switch, and can choose between five different options,ranging from 2 to 6km/h, with an additional 10km/h setting for experienced users....

Need a way to turn people off autonomous vehicles (AVs)?That’s what happened with Toyota’s e-Pallette at the Tokyo Paralympics games this week. One of the company’s self-driving transportation collided with and injured a visually impaired pedestrian.The companysuspended all self-driving e-Palette transportation pods at the Games village in response. What exactly happened? While Toyota claims the accident happened during manual control, the company has suspended the use of all e-Palette self-driving pods....

Tpstrycan be used as a digital archive of your family history, providing you with a unique URL and unlimited storage for your family photos. The service helps users fill out their rich family history by asking a series of questions like “what is your mother’s name” and “Did you serve in the military”. Upon adding each family member, Tpstry will enable users to invite their relatives to participate in the project....

Based on the response to myTrack Social Media with Google Analyticsarticle a few weeks back, I decided to take the same approach, but this time reverse the equation. Meaning, instead of tracking social media traffic within Google Analytics, why not track website traffic via Facebook Insights? Here’s how: First and foremost, head on over to theFacebook Insights landing page. If you’re an admin of any fan pages or apps, you should already be quite familiar with this area....