Toyota was founded by Toyoda Kiichiro. 1895, Akio Toyoda was born in Japan and graduated from Imperial Middle School in Tokyo, majoring in mechanical engineering.
1896, 29-year-old Akio Toyoda (Akio Toyoda's father) invented the "Toyota steam loom". The loom he invented is not only the first automatic loom in Japan that does not rely on manpower, but also different from previous looms, which can be looked after by a car stopper at the same time, greatly improving productivity. Even Prade, the world's number one textile machinery manufacturer at that time, made a request to transfer the patent right to Akio Toyoda. In the end, Satoshi sold the patent right at 654.38+0929 for 6.5438+million pounds (at that time, it was 6.5438+million yen).
At the end of 1929, Toyoda Shoichiro personally inspected the automobile industry in Europe and America.
1933 "Toyota automatic loom factory" established the automobile department. Akio Toyoda's classmate Ichiro Kumabe bought him a German DKW front-wheel drive car from Germany. After two years of disassembly research, he finally built a GI car in August of 1935. This car has two strokes and two cylinders, a wooden body and a leather roof.
1934, Akio Toyoda decided to set up an automobile factory.
1937, Toyota motor corporation was established with an initial capital of120,000 yen and more than 300 employees.
From the end of 1936 to the beginning of 1937, the sales of Toyota domestic trucks have been sluggish due to poor quality. After Japan launched the war of aggression against China, the army purchased a large number of trucks, and all Toyota's stock cars were sold out, and Toyota made a lot of money.
1939, the company set up a battery research institute and began to develop electric vehicles. 1940, Toyota produced about l5000 cars, 98% of which were vans.
194 1 In February, the Pacific War broke out. By the end of World War II in August, 1945, Japan's industrial production facilities were almost destroyed, and Toyota's factory was also seriously damaged in the war. In the first few years after the war, Japan's economy was in chaos. In order to complete its reconstruction as a pillar industry of economic development in peacetime, Toyota decided to set up a new small car factory on the basis of the original truck mass production system in September 1945.
1947 65438+ 10, the prototype of the first small car was finally successfully trial-produced. According to the principle of fluid mechanics, this prototype adopts streamlined body and spine frame structure, and four wheels are independently suspended to form a brand-new body mechanism, with a top speed of 87 kilometers per hour. It took two years after the prototype was born, and by 1949, Toyota's career was finally on the track of stable development.
1950 In April, Toyota Motor Music Sales Company was established. 1June 1950, when the Korean War broke out, the US military placed a huge order of 4.6 billion US dollars, and Toyota developed rapidly.
1952 On March 27th, Toyoda Shoichiro died of excited cerebral hemorrhage.
1962, Toyota began to March into Europe. This year, Toyota's output exceeded the million mark for the first time.
1966 Corolla sedan, which went on the market, is favored by consumers as a family car. Later, 1968 was successfully exported to North America, driving sales.
1At the end of 970, Toyota launched a small sports car, celica, which had produced almost 4 million cars before it stopped production at the end of 2004.
197 1 year, Toyota's annual output reaches 2 million vehicles, making it the third largest automobile manufacturer in the world.
1974, Toyota and Hino, Daihatsu and other 16 companies formed the Toyota Group, and at the same time formed a cooperation network with more than 280 small and medium-sized enterprises.
198 1 year, the agreement to restrict the export of automobiles to the United States came into effect, and Toyota decided to cooperate with General Motors of the United States in production.
1in July, 1982, Toyota Motor Corporation and Toyota Motor Sales Company merged again and officially changed its name to Toyota Motor Corporation.
1983 In order to compete with Honda's Accord sedan in the North American market, Toyota introduced the Camry sedan.
193, the total sales reached 85.283 billion dollars, ranking fifth among global industrial companies. In 200 1 year, the automobile output was 4.45 million vehicles, accounting for 9.4% of the world automobile market.
In 2006, Toyota sold 8.808 million cars worldwide.