Toyota is teaming up pinch Daimler and Volvo to activity connected substance compartment technology. The Japanese institution is signing connected to nan associated task cellcentric that Volvo and Daimler launched backmost successful 2020. Once it officially joins, Toyota and cellcentric will collaborate connected managing nan improvement and accumulation of substance compartment portion cells.
"We are profoundly grateful for nan opportunity to soon beryllium joining Daimler Truck and Volvo Group arsenic partners successful building a hydrogen society," Toyota President and CEO Koji Sato said. "cellcentric which person heavy expertise successful commercialized fields together pinch Toyota ‘s complete 30 years of fuel-cell improvement successful nan rider car sector, tin harvester their strengths to present 1 of nan world-leading substance compartment systems for dense commercialized vehicles."
It's a move that runs antagonistic to wherever nan car manufacture has been trending. Last year, Stellantis announced that it would extremity its hydrogen substance compartment improvement program. That's nan institution that owns brands including Chrysler, Citroen, Fiat, Jeep and Peugeot. GM besides gave up connected hydrogen successful 2025. Even Toyota had rethought immoderate of its committedness to hydrogen past year, pivoting to stress business applications alternatively than commercialized ones.