Additional $35 million will fund the company’s unique research center an additional five years, concentrating on a ‘safe transition’ to future of automated and connected vehicle technologies.
The color coat is an accumulation of ultra-thin, multi-layer film layers formed by a vapor deposition process that applies a thin layer of atoms of one material onto thin sheets of a polymer.
In this Q&A, Toyota Technical Center President Seiya Nakao discusses future mobility development, technical innovation, Toyota's recent reorganization, and the ever-changing automotive engineering profession.
Creating technologies that amplify human experience and endeavor to help solve society’s biggest challenges is the mission of the Toyota Research Institute.
The company debuted on Earth Day the third iteration of its hydrogen-powered Class 8 truck, which uses a Kenworth T680 model as a starting point and replaces the diesel engine with two solid polymer electrolyte fuel-cell stacks that are exactly like the one used in the Mirai.
There's a transformative supply-chain impact attached to powertrain electrification and other fast-moving engineering paradigm shifts; only those fast on their feet will flourish.
Intelligent transmission controls are communicating with engines to improve efficiency, while some of the engine’s workload is being shifted to electrified axles.
Astro Aerospace Ltd. of Dallas, Texas has been been granted a Special Flight Operations Certificate for the operation of an unmanned air vehicle (UAV) system for its passenger drone project, “Elroy.”
The ARS3 PRO triaxial angular rate sensor from DTS (Diversified Technical Systems, Inc.) permits measuring the durability of a lever or capturing driveshaft speed in a manufacturing machine without the need for a slip-ring.