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Toyota Keeps Up the Push to Prove It Can Embrace New Technology
- Carmaker invited reporters for a three factory tour last week
- Engineers showcased fresh battery tech, gigacast progress
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Toyota Motor Corp.’s campaign to show customers, suppliers and investors that it’s serious about electrification was on display again this month, with another round of demonstrations following a similar effort back in June.
The world’s largest carmaker invited journalists on a tour of three factories in Aichi prefecture, near its Toyota City headquarters, last week for another peek at the technology it’s developing to expand production of battery-electric vehicles, as well as a crash course on its famed production system.