Toyota closed its São Bernardo Plant in November 2023, marking the end of its first overseas production facility. The closure caps off a period of continuous car production in São Paolo, Brazil, lasting over 60 years. The plant was home to a Komatsu 700-ton press that predates Toyota’s carmaking business itself. And now that the plant has closed, Toyota is bringing the press machine back home to Japan, where it will keep making spare parts and be used to train workers.
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Along with petrol engines, diesels are slowly but surely phasing out in the automotive world. They are still widely used in the industrial sector because of their reliability and low maintenance costs. Toyota is determined to change that, and its engineers have been hard at work developing various hydrogen alternatives tailored for a wide range of applications.
How Toyota Plans to Replace Diesel Power With Hydrogen in the Industrial Sector 17 Mar 2021, 11:30 UTC ·
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By now, we’re all familiar with the Mirai, Toyota’s mass-produced hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV), a model that brought this technology into the mainstream.