are wiring components that occupy the small space inside hybrid vehicle inverters and are designed to handle the high voltages and large currents specific to hybrid vehicles. They come in various types, including round bars, resin cassettes, and resin molded types. For fuel cell buses (such as the SORA), the company also manufactures battery packs which have cooling and waterproof functions and are designed to be suitable for the usage environme...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/06/24

Corporation (Suzuki), and Daihatsu Motor Co., Ltd. (Daihatsu), exhibited a fuel cell powered light-duty truck at the Smart Logistics Expo.   The fuel cell (FC) light-duty truck is based on the Isuzu Elf and was converted to a fuel cell vehicle (FCV) by installing a Toyota Mirai FC stack, a Toyota Sora FC bus drive motor, and other components.   The vehicle is equipped with two 70MPa high-pressure hydrogen tanks with a capacity of 10.5kg, givin...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/02/07

nding of EUR 30 million in 2023. The EU’s Clean Hydrogen Partnership’s H2Accelerate project includes hydrogen-related companies such as Linde, Shell, and TotalEnergies. (7) CaetanoBus in Portugal CaetanoBus' "H2.City Gold” FCEV (Source: CaetanoBus S.A.) This is not a Toyota (J-Bus) OEM "SORA" model, but the "e.City Gold” BEV equipped with a Toyota FC system developed in-house by CaetanoBus S.A.   The company produces a wide rang...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/01/07

neralization of scenarios at a certain level. However, if the angle changes depending on the vehicle's behavior and the effectiveness of the new angle decreases, the requirements for autonomous driving cannot be met. Generative simulation "World Model” It is a generative model. For example, the Sora. Scenarios are generated arbitrarily based on the inputs Prompt and Action. However, there exist hallucinations that do not truly understand nor ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/09/20

g.Read more at no cost for a limited time by registering for a free trial. Toyota Motor Corporation: FC modules, hydrogen tanks, water electrolysis hydrogen production system, hydrogen society   Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota), which is currently selling the Mirai fuel cell vehicle (FCV) and the SORA fuel cell bus, did not have any vehicles on display, but introduced its efforts to sell fuel cell (FC) systems to FC product suppliers as a fuel ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2023/04/07

Fuel cell commercial vehicle market trends in Japan and China (TTDC survey) Source: Technical information distribution service-swimy URL: https://thinktank.toyota-td.jp/pub/list   Regarding the market trends of fuel cell commercial vehicles in Japan and China, in Japan, Toyota announced the “Sora” fuel cell bus in 2018, and since there has been a series of announcements of collaboration and demonstration tests by other companies related ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2023/01/16

he second is "improvement of existing technologies," which will utilize HEVs (hybrid vehicles), e-fuel, and biofuels in vehicles that use internal combustion engines. The third is to improve the efficiency of logistics as a whole.   As for large FC commercial vehicles, Toyota and Hino launched the Sora, a large FCEV bus, in 2018. They are also jointly developing a heavy-duty FC truck, aiming for a driving range of 600km. He concluded his present...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2022/05/10

eased with surplus electricity, FCEVs can be dispatched to generate electricity in the event of a disaster. The new Mirai has an expanded power supply capacity of 75kWh, which is enough to supply power for a week if the power consumption of an average household is 10kWh/day. In addition, the FC bus Sora is capable of supplying 235kWh, which can be used to provide electricity, for example at evacuation centers, during disasters. FC heavy-du...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2021/10/27

Plan: Responding to the global decarbonization regime Current status of the medium and large commercial vehicle market in Japan Fig. 1: BYD's EV bus J6 (Source: BYD Japan)Buses are leading the way in the electrification of CVs in Japan. Many electrified CVs include BYD for EVs and the Toyota SORA for FCVs. The BYD J6 will also be the base vehicle for the Hino Poncho Z EV (to be released in 2022).   Japan's Basic Energy Plan, the draft ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2021/08/24

ration PHEV medium-duty bus(limited sales) Since 2016, 5 years 200,000 km No need to worry about running out of electric power. Switchable between EV and HV Large FCV transit bus(Toyota brand) Since 2018, 3 years80,000 km Excellent in quietness and smooth acceleration and deceleration   The Sora (Toyota brand large transit bus) has 10 hydrogen tanks on the roof and two stacks of the first-generation Mirai to ensure its power performance i...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2021/02/18

Fuel cell commercial vehicles: Toyota jointly develops FC systems with major Chinese OEMs Plans of Honda & Isuzu, Hyundai Motor, Daimler & Volvo and Nikola Motor Summary Toyota: Establishes an R&D company for commercial vehicle fuel cell systems in China Toyota: Releases the series production "SORA" fuel cell bus, with plans to introduce more than 100 units Toyota: Started operation of heavy-duty fuel cell truck as part of the Port of L.A. projec...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2020/08/13

s, Ltd., a parts supplier for Toyota, exhibited battery packs and power distribution units the company designed and built, acting as a bridge between battery manufacturers and automakers.   Battery pack for FC buses   Kyoho Machine Works’ battery pack (exhibited as cutaway model) for Toyota’s Sora fuel cell (FC) bus incorporates two sets of nickel metal hydride battery packs featured on Toyota’s Crown passenger vehicle. Similar to the Cro...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2020/03/27

re rapidly being developed. Also seen is that the proliferation of these vehicles in China far beyond that in Europe. However, in Japan, the spread of CNG vehicles has been sluggish compared to HEV, and the only commercially available model is made by Isuzu.   Fuel Cell Vehicles (FCV) Toyota SORA, a service route vehicle waiting in front of Tokyo Teleport Station   Japan has a strong presence in the world with regards to the full-scale...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2019/11/15

ies. The mid-range sedan FCV MIRAI was launched in December 2014 and reached a cumulative sales volume of 7,700 units by the end of 2018. It is targeting to eventually sell more than 30,000 units per year globally and about 10,000 or more units in Japan.  In March 2018, Toyota launched the FC bus "SORA". While only 5 buses are currently deployed, it is expecting to introduce more than 100 FC buses in time for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralymp...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2019/04/03

eedom to move to everyone in the future.   Also, in order to make the Tokyo Olympic 2020 Games an opportunity to realize a hydrogen society, Toyota will support the Games with a large number of zero-emission hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (FCVs) such as the Mirai FCV sedan, the fuel cell bus Sora, and fuel cell forklifts. In addition to EVs and FCVs, Toyota will mainly provide electrified vehicles such as HVs and PHVs.       In preparat...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2018/08/24

sification of FCVs, the company is pursuing a global annual sales volume of more than 30,000 units around 2020, of which sales in Japan is expected to account for monthly sales of 1,000 units or over 10,000 units annually. Further, by 2020, Toyota will introduce more than 100 units of the FC bus “SORA” for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. By around 2020, about 170- 180 units of FC forklifts are scheduled for introduction at the Toyota Motomachi Plant...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2018/06/25

opment and commercialization of FCVs,. FC bus The FC Bus, with a range of 200km, was developed by re-using the TFCS originally designed for the MIRAI. The FC system was introduced on public buses operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation in February 2017. The FC bus concept model "SORA" announced at the Tokyo Motor Show in October 2017 is scheduled to go on sale in Japan from 2018. In addition, Toyota is planning to introduce ov...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2018/04/02

Tokyo Motor Show 2017: Commercial vehicle exhibits (Part 2) Exhibitions from UD Trucks, SCANIA, Hino, and Toyota Summary UD Trucks: New Quon, and the Quester for emerging countries SCANIA: Exhibition of the new model NEXT GENERATION, scheduled for release in the Japanese market in 2018 Hino: Exhibition of the new Profia, Ranger, and five other commercially available vehicles Toyota group: SORA fuel cell bus concept, and LCV concept At the Tokyo M...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2017/12/27

solid-state battery technology can be a game-changer with the potential to dramatically improve driving range" by the early 2020s. Toyota is also continuing its efforts to develop fuel cell vehicle (FCV) technologies, as seen in the Toyota concept vehicles for the Fine-Comfort Ride premium FCV and Sora Fuel Cell Bus.   At the Lexus booth, the LS+ Concept, which is equipped with the latest automated–driving technology that Lexus is aiming to d...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2017/11/21