Research & Development

For 50 years, Toyota Motor North America Research & Development (TMNA R&D) has led engineering for several of the best-selling Toyota vehicles on U.S. roads. Centered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, TMNA R&D is pursuing Toyota’s mission to “Produce Happiness for All” by making life safer, easier and more enjoyable. Teams are now creating both next-generation vehicles and new and advanced mobility concepts that can better move people, goods and information.

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Toyota Selected to Receive $4.5 Million in Federal Funding for Development of Technology to Support a Circular Domestic Supply Chain for Electric Vehicle Batteries

December 18, 2024

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (Dec. 18, 2024) – Toyota announced today that Toyota Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. (TEMA), inclusive of Toyota Motor North America (TMNA) R&D, has been selected to receive $4.5 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). The funding is part of the Catalyzing Innovative Research for Circular Use of Long-lived Advanced Rechargeables (CIRCULAR) Program, designed to support a circular domestic supply chain for electric vehicle (EV) batteries.

Mobility

Toyota to Share Progress on Woven City at CES 2025

December 16, 2024

TOKYO (Dec. 17, 2024) ―Toyota Motor Corporation announces that it will return to CES 2025 with plans to make a presentation on Woven City during Media Days on January 6, 2025 starting at 1:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. The presentation will also be livestreamed, as outlined below.

Mobility

Joby Aviation and Toyota Accelerate Efforts to Realize Air Mobility

November 04, 2024

SUSONO, Japan, and SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (Nov. 4, 2024) – Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) and Joby Aviation (Joby) came together at Toyota's Higashi-Fuji Technical Center (Shizuoka, Japan) to assert their collective passion and ambition for air mobility in a gathering that included executives from both companies, Akio Toyoda, the chairman of the Toyota Group, and Joby CEO and founder, JoeBen Bevirt, along with Joby's air taxi, an electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (eVTOL*).

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