Toyota breaks ground for Woven City
03 Mar 2021 - 9:28
Officials during the Woven City groundbreaking ceremony.
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Doha: Construction of the prototype city of the future where all ecosystems are connected begins at the Higashi-Fuji site (Susono City, Shizuoka Prefecture) Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) and Woven Planet Holdings, Inc. (Woven Planet), the Toyota Group company responsible for a wide range of mobility development projects anchored in software, held a groundbreaking ceremony (Jichinsai) recently for the construction of Woven City at the old vehicle yard adjacent to the former Higashi-Fuji Plant site of Toyota Motor East Japan, Inc. (TMEJ).
Along with the Governor of Shizuoka Prefecture Heita Kawakatsu, Mayor of Susono City Kenji Takamura and other guests representing the local community, the ceremony was attended by Toyota President Akio Toyoda, Woven Planet CEO James Kuffner, TMEJ President Kazuhiro Miyauchi and others involved in the project. To
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Toyota Motor Corp. builds Woven City, a prototype city of the future, at the former site of Toyota Motor East Japan Inc.’s Higashi-Fuji Plant, seen in the front, in Susono, Shizuoka Prefecture. This photo was taken on Feb. 11. (Koichi Ueda)
Toyota Motor Corp. has started building a prototype “city of the future,” an unusual move by an automaker to build an entire town from scratch and use it as a laboratory for cutting-edge technology.
In its new “Woven City” project, Toyota will test all sorts of state-of-the-art tech, including self-driving cars and artificial intelligence.
It plans to leverage the testing ground to craft new products and services so it can expand its business model, as the market becomes increasingly crowded by tech companies and other new players from outside of the traditional automobile sector.
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Toyota Breaks Ground for Woven City
Construction of the prototype city of the future where all ecosystems are connected begins at the Higashi-Fuji site (Susono City, Shizuoka Prefecture)
Toyota City, Japan, Feb 23, 2021 - (JCN Newswire) - Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) and Woven Planet Holdings, Inc. (Woven Planet), the Toyota Group company responsible for a wide range of mobility development projects, anchored in software, held a groundbreaking ceremony (Jichinsai) for the construction of Woven City at 11:00 a.m. on February 23 at the old vehicle yard adjacent to the former Higashi-Fuji Plant site of Toyota Motor East Japan, Inc. (TMEJ).
Along with Governor Heita Kawakatsu of Shizuoka Prefecture, Mayor Kenji Takamura of Susono City, and other guests representing the local community, the ceremony was attended by Toyota President Akio Toyoda, Woven Planet CEO James Kuffner, TMEJ President Kazuhiro Miyauchi, as well as others involved in the project. Together, the leaders expre