At a time when the world’s focus is squarely on personal mobility and its shift away from fossil fuels towards renewable energy sources, four Japanese auto companies — Toyota Motor Corporation, Isuzu Motors, Suzuki Motor Corporation, and Daihatsu Motor — have formed an alliance to try and find solutions for current commercial vehicle transportation challenges, with the aim of accelerating the drive towards a carbon-neutral society.
The alliance, called the Commercial Japan Partnership Technologies Corporation (CJPT), is unique, in that it is outside the glamourous ring-light surrounding passenger electric vehicles and hybrids, and yet aims to contribute significantly to reducing the carbon footprint from tailpipe emissions. Toyota, one of the pioneers of electrification, has long been a proponent of technology agnosticism when it comes to lowering emissions, and as part of the…
