Toyota Business Fair 2025: Hydrogen, Carbon Neutrality Lightweighting, plastic materials, recycling, production technology Summary Special Exhibit: FCEV Crown, fuel cell module, hydrogen engine (Toyota) Hydrogen-related components, electrification components (FTS, Kyoho Machine Works) Various technologies contributing to carbon neutrality (Aisin, Kojima Industries) Lightweight technology, component manufacturing technology (Toyoda Iron Works, Toy...

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

is report, Sango also produces exhaust manifolds and urea SCR exhaust aftertreatment systems integrated with DPFs. Customers: Sango components are used on many models in the Toyota and Daihatsu lineups, especially mufflers, where Sango holds the largest share among muffler suppliers. In addition to Toyota, Sango also supplies exhaust system parts to other major OEMs such as Nissan and Honda. In the case of their primary customer Toyota, depending...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/06/19

with disc brakes. All Mazda models, with the exception of the Mazda 2, are equipped with four-wheel disc brakes.   On the other hand, Daihatsu and Suzuki, whose main production models are mini-vehicles and small cars in the B segment and below, have many models with drum brakes.   In between are Toyota, Nissan, Honda, and Mitsubishi. Many of Mitsubishi's mini-cars and small commercial vehicles for the Japanese domestic market are equipped with...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/05/29

adding an auxiliary motor to an ICE-powered vehicle. To compete with low-priced Chinese cars, they are mainly small cars, and therefore many of them have DCTs. Meanwhile, roughly half of the ATs are in Ford's light commercial vehicles, while the rest are sporadically introduced in one model each by Toyota, Lamborghini, Jeep, Peugeot and others.   Going forward, it is expected that commercial vehicles, the majority of which are currently equippe...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/04/15

technologies that are attracting attention and discusses future cockpit trends. Table 1: Passenger cars launched by Japanese OEMs in the Japanese market after January 2022*. Brand Model name Year of release (Japanese market) Toyota Noah / Voxy January 2022 bZ4X May 2022 Sienta August 2022 Crown (Crossover, Sport, Sedan) September 2022November 2023 Prius January 2023 Alphard June 2023 Lexus LX January 2022 RX November 2022 RZ M...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/10/25

OYOTA (China) and joint ventures with BYD, China FAW, and Guangzhou Automobile Group. Furthermore, the "omni-directional strategy" that includes fuel cells (FC) and hydrogen engine vehicles remains unchanged, with plans to sell 100,000 FC units by 2030, mainly in Europe and China, and to launch the Crown Sedan FCV for sale in Japan. There is no change to the plan for all-solid-state batteries to be launched in the market in 2027.   Honda In its ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/10/18

pply bottlenecks that existed through 2022. Among the vehicle sales, electric vehicles (BEVs, PHEVs, and HEVs) accounted for 50.3% of sales, half of all sales. Among the fully remodeled vehicles in the last fiscal year, there was one new BEV (Mitsubishi Minicab) and three new PHEVs (Toyota Century, Crown Sport, and Crown Sedan), indicating that the shift to full-scale electrification is proceeding, albeit gradually.   In response to this, change...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/10/10

igure 5. Cockpit of the Tesla Model 3Photo by MarkLines     At present, however, there are still not many designs like Tesla's that handle all functions on a single screen, and systems that integrate instrumentation and in-vehicle information are still the norm. Below is an example of a Toyota Crown cockpit.   The cockpit of Toyota Motor Corporation's Crown is equipped with two displays, one for gauges and the other for information, as an i...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/10/03

cle protection, seat cushion, rear seat center, and rear collision airbag modules. Future development items include the development of an airbag + seatbelt system in collaboration with Ashimori Industry, as well as occupant protection systems for autonomous driving. The company is a key supplier to Toyota, Subaru, and Daihatsu, and delivers products to other Japanese automakers, except for Nissan (excluding OEM minicars), but through the aforemen...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/09/12

facturing stators based on its long history of joint development of motor stators with Toyota. BluE Nexus develops, assembles and sells e-Axles, and outsources the manufacturing of the motor to Aisin. BluE Nexus is supplied components such as transaxles, motors, and inverters from Aisin, Denso, and Toyota, and develops, customizes, and sells modules and systems. In addition to the e-Axles mounted on Toyota's BEVs, the BluE Nexus's products includ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/08/22

hinese subsidiary withdraws from the company, bringing Subaru's stake to 100%. July 2023, Mazda terminates consignment of production to China FAW Group companies, while the joint venture with Chongqing Changan Automobile continues. The focus will be on SUVs, which are strong sellers. July 2023, GAC Toyota, a joint venture between Toyota and Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd. (GAC), cut about 1,000 employees, or about 5% of its workforce. Octobe...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/08/08

als were used in the new Lexus RX. In the front seats, a new mechanism for adjusting the seat length has been designed to accommodate a wide range of drivers’ body types. In July 2022, Toyota Boshoku reported that its interior components including seats and door trim were used in Toyota's all-new Crown crossover model. The seats, decorated with a surface material containing a luminous agent, have a "deep suspension structure" that draws the tri...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/08/01

Battery Technologies: Battery life extension, safety components, etc. From coverage of the JSAE 2024 in Yokohama exhibition Summary Battery storage system for electric vehicles (Nissan, Toyota, Mazda, Honda, Hino, Isuzu) Battery modules (WAE, Toshiba, Nissan ARC) Battery cells (JTEKT, Kobelco Research Institute) Battery packs (Kautex, Mitsubishi Chemical, Valeo, Ryobi, Martinrea) Fire protection measures for batteries (Fujikura Composites, Henkel...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/07/10

JSAE 2024 in Yokohama: Electric Powertrains Electrified vehicles, e-Axles, and motors Summary Electrified vehicles, OEM electric PTs (Toyota, Honda, Nissan) Electric PT: Japanese suppliers (Aisin, JATCO, Meidensha, IJTT, TBK) Electric PT: European and U.S. suppliers (Valeo, BorgWarner, Schaeffler, VITESCO, AAM, DANA) Electric PT: Unique ePT, Engineering (Hitachi Astemo, EXEDY, Univance, Drive System Design, AVL) OEM exhibits at the North ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/06/12

is report, Sango also produces exhaust manifolds and urea SCR exhaust aftertreatment systems integrated with DPFs. Customers: Sango components are used on many models in the Toyota and Daihatsu lineups, especially mufflers, where Sango holds the largest share among muffler suppliers. In addition to Toyota, Sango also supplies exhaust system parts to other major OEMs such as Nissan and Honda. In the case of their primary customer Toyota, depending...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/05/30

models, except for the Mazda 2 and the small commercial vehicle Bongo, are all equipped with 4-wheel disc brakes.   On the other hand, Daihatsu and Suzuki, whose main production models are mini-vehicles and small cars in the B segment and below, have many models with drum brakes.   In between are Toyota, Nissan, Honda, and Mitsubishi. Many of Mitsubishi's mini-cars and small commercial vehicles for the Japanese domestic market are equipped with...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/04/11

llowing is a summary of trends for the three major companies as well as the three other companies from the supplier's perspective.   Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd. The company supplies headlamps and rear lamps to nearly all Japanese OEMs. The company is the dominant supplier of lighting systems to Toyota, its largest shareholder, as well as to Daihatsu, Subaru, and Suzuki, but its business with Honda and Mazda, where Stanley is strong, is limite...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/02/29

pack (for Toyota Aqua)   Toyota Industries Corporation (Toyota Industries) jointly developed bipolar nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) batteries with Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) for hybrid vehicles. Beginning with production in 2021 for the Toyota Aqua, the product will also be used in the RX, Crown, and Alphard, making Toyota Industries a mass production supplier of batteries, with a monthly production capacity of 40,000 units.   The bipol...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2023/11/30

ough joint development with Changan Automobile. In 2023, the MX-30 R-EV (PHEV) is scheduled to be launched in Japan and Europe, and the CX-90 PHEV in the U.S.   Subaru In May 2023, the company announced a 2030 BEV production plan of 300,000 units, and although the Solterra is currently produced by Toyota, Subaru will invest JPY 250 billion in EV lines at two Gunma plants (Yajima and Oizumi) for in-house production. Then in August, the company ra...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2023/11/01

cle protection, seat cushion, rear seat center, and rear collision airbag modules. Future development items include the development of an airbag + seatbelt system in collaboration with Ashimori Industry, as well as occupant protection systems for autonomous driving. The company is a key supplier to Toyota, Subaru, and Daihatsu, and delivers products to other Japanese automakers, except for Nissan (excluding OEM minicars), but through the aforemen...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2023/09/21