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Toyota Gives Back and Joins the Thrilling Action of the Inaugural Concacaf W Gold Cup as a Founding Partner
PLANO, Texas (March 12, 2024) – Thousands of soccer followers flocked to stadiums in Houston, Texas, Los Angeles and San Diego, California to witness the first-ever version of Concacaf’s ladies’s worldwide competitors, the 2024 W Gold Cup. Toyota joined within the motion as an inaugural and official automotive companion of the competitors. This helps solidify the corporate’s continued dedication to inclusivity in soccer and creating extra alternatives for all who’re passionate in regards to the sport.
Additionally, Toyota prolonged its ongoing partnership with Boys & Girls Clubs of America, presenting a donation of $80,000 throughout halftime of the ultimate recreation. As a founding companion of the group’s workforce readiness applications, the funds will help the group’s ongoing work to empower youth to excel in class whereas main wholesome, productive lives.
Toyota celebrated the ultimate recreation of the 2024 Concacaf W Gold Cup with members, mother and father, and employees of Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater San Diego. Toyota prolonged its ongoing partnership with Boys & Girls Clubs of America with a donation and invited native membership members to attend the championship match held Sunday, March 10 at Snapdragon Stadium.
“We were delighted to continue our partnership with Concacaf during the inaugural W Gold Cup as we continue engaging in programs that bring soccer to life for communities throughout the U.S. This competition highlights the rising profile of women in soccer, as a catalyst not only for growth in the sport but also for the development of the next generation of players,” commented Russ Koble, sports activities sponsorships senior supervisor, Toyota. “To have youth from local Boys & Girls Clubs present to share in this momentous occasion was an important element of our continued association with Boys & Girls Clubs of America. This helps us to ensure continued impactful experiences for all.”
Club members from the Houston, Los Angeles and San Diego areas acquired an opportunity to witness the soccer motion at choose video games. To culminate the thrilling competitors, a gaggle of Club members and representatives from Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater San Diego attended the action-packed remaining recreation at Snapdragon Stadium between Brazil and the United States.
“As a former collegiate soccer player who grew up playing at a local Club, I love seeing our Club kids, families and staff benefit from Toyota’s sponsorship of the inaugural 2024 Concacaf W Gold Cup,” said Chad Hartman, National Vice President, Corporate Partnerships & Engagement, Boys & Girls Clubs of America. “We know that many girls drop of out of sports programs due to a lack of positive role models, so giving these young women the opportunity to see themselves reflected on the pitch makes a big impact today and into the future. It is with partners like Toyota that Boys & Girls Clubs of America is able to level the playing field for youth across the country.”
Kids, mother and father and employees of Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater San Diego loved the Toyota Fútbol Club fan zone earlier than the Final of the inaugural Concacaf W Gold Cup.
Fan Zone and Trophy Appearances
W Gold Cup attendees loved a wide range of pre-game actions through the competitors’s quarterfinals, semifinals and remaining recreation on the Fan Zone, that includes the Toyota Fútbol (Soccer) Club. This interactive space catered to soccer fanatics of all ages with video games, music, and soccer-themed paintings from native artists. Fans additionally acquired to see up-close the all-new 2024 Tacoma together with the 2024 bz4x, Toyota’s electrical automobile. Attendees acquired to see and take images with the official W Gold Cup trophy displayed through the Fan Zone festivities.
The Concacaf W Gold Cup is the premier ladies’s nationwide crew competitors within the area and a key a part of their ladies’s soccer technique launched in 2019 with the objective of prioritizing the expansion of girls’s soccer in any respect ranges.
About Toyota
Toyota (NYSE:TM) has been part of the cultural cloth in North America for greater than 65 years, and is dedicated to advancing sustainable, next-generation mobility by means of our Toyota and Lexus manufacturers, plus our greater than 1,800 dealerships.
Toyota immediately employs greater than 63,000 folks in North America who’ve contributed to the design, engineering, and meeting of practically 47 million automobiles and vans at our 13 manufacturing crops. By 2025, Toyota’s 14th plant in North Carolina will start to fabricate automotive batteries for electrified autos. With extra electrified autos on the street than another automaker, Toyota at the moment provides 27 electrified choices.
For extra details about Toyota, go to www.ToyotaNewsroom.com.
About Boys & Girls Clubs of America
For greater than 160 years, Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA.org) has supplied a protected place for teenagers and teenagers to study and develop. Clubs supply caring grownup mentors, enjoyable and friendship, and high-impact youth improvement applications every day throughout crucial non-school hours. Boys & Girls Clubs programming promotes tutorial success, good character and management, and wholesome existence. Over 5,200 Clubs serve 3.3 million younger folks by means of Club membership and neighborhood outreach. Clubs are situated in cities, cities, public housing and on Native lands all through the nation, and serve navy households in BGCA-affiliated Youth Centers on U.S. navy installations worldwide. The nationwide headquarters is situated in Atlanta. Learn extra about Boys & Girls Clubs of America on Facebook and X (formerly Twitter).
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Aventador SVJ VS Huracán Tecnica Drag Race Proves Power Isn’t Everything
Hundreds of hundreds of {dollars} can separate completely different Lamborghini fashions from one another. A $200,000 hole lies between the Aventador SVJ and the Huracan Tecnica, however a brand new drag racing video reveals that spending the additional money doesn’t immediately translate into assured quarter-mile victories.
The SVJ makes 770 horsepower from its naturally aspirated 6.5-liter V12 engine. That’s 130 greater than the Huracan, however energy is not all the things, clearly. The Aventador weighs 3,910 kilos, whereas the Tecnica, with its 640-hp 5.2-liter V10, suggestions the scales at 3,350 lbs.
Why is the Aston Martin DB11 So Expensive?
Aston Martin produces only a few thousand cars each year, unlike more mainstream manufacturers. This is because cars like the DB11, which are designed for luxury and performance, are not practical for most consumers. This limited production leads to higher costs.
With lower production numbers, expenses increase. This is due to the concept of economies of scale, which states that as production quantities rise, prices fall. Manufacturers benefit from bulk purchasing of components, which reduces the cost per unit. As the number of units produced goes up, fixed development costs are spread among more parts, reducing individual unit costs.
For example, a part like a headlight assembly is much cheaper to produce when the costs are spread among 200,000 units for a Toyota compared to 1,000 units for an Aston Martin. This explains why the DB11 is expensive to purchase and why replacement parts, such as a headlight, are also more costly.
This Luxury Motorhome, Priced at $580,000, Comes with a Garage That Can Fit a Miata-Sized Car
When it comes to luxury motorhomes, compromise is not an option. And with the Concorde Liner 1090 GIO, which costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, you can expect nothing less. This motorhome is designed to provide the complete homeownership experience, even on the road, by including a garage.
The garage space may not be the largest, but it is still spacious enough to accommodate a proper car. However, there are some size and weight restrictions. The car must not exceed 14.1 feet (4.3 meters) in length or 4.4 feet (1.36 meters) in height, and it should weigh no more than 3,086 pounds (1,400 kilograms). These requirements may eliminate many modern vehicles, but the current Mazda Miata fits perfectly within these limits.
These Are The Best 10 Photos From Monterey Car Week 2023
Every 12 months, tens of hundreds of passionate automotive collectors and fanatics flock to the coast of Northern California to expertise the thrills and festivities of Monterey Car Week. While the week is crammed with reside luxurious auctions and different unique occasions, these not in attendance are left to expertise the fuel-driven event by means of a telephone display. Through the facility of social media, devoted automotive photographers relieve everybody’s FOMO by staying up-to-date by means of posts on platforms like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and way more. Creating an viewers and a following of their very own, famend photographers like Richard Thompson III (@rvt3) are being acknowledged for influencing their very own fashion of labor utilizing strategies comparable to infrared images.
Along with celebrating this 12 months’s supercar and hypercar unveilings from main producers, we at duPont REGISTRY are proud to commemorate these devoted automotive photographers who made Monterey Car Week 2023 a real spectacle, even from the consolation of our properties and places of work. Along with a thanks to our photographer pals, we’re additionally excited to function a few of our favourite Monterey Car Week moments caught from behind a digicam lens. From eight-figure collector automobiles which are pushed every year to unique hypercars constructed for royalty, these jaw-dropping pictures are positive to kick-start your planning for subsequent 12 months. Discover the entire wonderful work from the automotive photographers included on this particular by clicking on their Instagram handles beneath.
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Volvo Cars switches to renewable fuels for ocean freight that will cut fossil CO2 emissions by 84%
Volvo Cars has become the first global car maker to switch to renewable fuel for its intercontinental ocean freight journeys. By using renewable fuel instead of traditional fossil fuel, the company will immediately reduce its fossil CO2 emissions from ocean freight by 55,000 tonnes per year. This renewable fuel reduces CO2 emissions by at least 84% compared to fossil fuel, which is equivalent to the CO2 emissions of a truck driving around the equator about 1,200 times.
The fuel being used is called Fatty Acid Methyl Esters (FAME), which is derived from renewable and sustainable sources, primarily waste cooking oil. It is important to note that no palm oil or palm oil production feedstock is used in the production of this fuel.
This switch to renewable fuel will apply to inbound ocean container transports of production material for Volvo Cars’ manufacturing plants in Europe and the Americas, as well as spare parts distribution globally by ocean container transports.
Javier Varela, the Chief Operating Officer and Deputy CEO of Volvo Cars, emphasizes that while renewable fuel is not the ultimate solution for reducing CO2 in ocean freight, this initiative demonstrates that immediate action can be taken to achieve significant results while waiting for long-term technological alternatives.
Volvo Cars does not see this initiative as a competitive advantage, but rather hopes to inspire other car makers to take similar action in order to increase the demand for carbon-efficient ocean transports and establish renewable fuels as a viable mid-term solution. The company believes that everyone has a responsibility to act in addressing climate change.
Volvo Cars has collaborated with logistics partners Maersk, Kuehne+Nagel, and DB Schenker on this initiative. These logistics service providers have also switched to renewable fuel for all container transports done for Volvo Cars since 1 June 2023.
When renewable fuel is not available for a specific shipment, the renewable fuel allocation of Volvo Cars is used by the logistics partner for another customer’s route, ensuring that the overall reduction in fossil fuel use remains consistent with actual use in container vessels. This methodology, known as mass-balancing, is regularly audited by third parties. The renewable fuel used is certified and does not compete with food crops, making it sustainable in accordance with the EU Renewable Energy Directive.
Javier Varela states that Volvo Cars is continuously exploring sustainability opportunities in its supply chain and overall business. The company aims to reduce its lifecycle carbon footprint per car by 40% between 2018 and 2025, including a 25% reduction in operational emissions, including logistics. Additionally, Volvo Cars is striving for climate-neutral manufacturing by 2025. These milestones are significant steps towards the company’s ambition of becoming a climate-neutral company by 2040.
1The comparison of fuels considers emissions from the production and use of an equivalent amount of energy, known as Well-to-Wake (WTW) emissions.
Reasons behind Reddit r/Cars and Other Communities Going Dark
Reddit has implemented changes that have led to several communities shutting down their operations in protest. The automotive industry also participated in the shutdown starting on June 12, which is aimed to last for 48 hours, or even indefinitely in some subreddits.
As of writing this article, a Twitch live stream monitoring the situation shows that almost 8,000 communities have gone dark. This includes the largest subreddit for cars, r/Cars, which has 4.9 million members. Other major auto-related subreddits that are currently private are r/Autos, r/Spotted, r/IdiotsInCars, r/AskCarSales, and dozens of manufacturer and vehicle-specific groups. This move has essentially removed them from the public’s view.
However, not all of Reddit’s world has shut down. As we publish this article on the afternoon of June 12, r/CarTalk and its 650,000-plus members are still active, as is r/Mechanic Advice with 1.1 million members. Though with subreddits closing down on a seemingly minute-by-minute basis, it’s highly possible that these sites could turn private by the time you read this.
Changes made by Reddit regarding third-party apps are the reasons behind these protests. Reddit is imposing API costs on third-party developers that force them to shut down. API stands for application programming interface, which is the software that enables different applications to communicate. These apps are commonly used among Reddit users, and they supposedly help subreddits moderators keep their communities running smoothly. As per NBC News, one developer must shut down their application at the end of June, as the API charges would cost over $20 million per year.
It’s unclear whether r/Cars will return on June 14 or remain private. Motor1.com has reached out to r/Cars’ moderators to get some insights into this situation, but we haven’t received a response yet. We’ll update this article if more information becomes available.