Toyota to provide 3,700 EVs for Tokyo 2020

Toyota has announced that it will provide a full line-up of electrified vehicles, including unique versions of certain vehicles and vehicles developed specifically to support the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020.

Aiming to achieve the lowest emissions target level of any official vehicle fleet used at the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Japanese manufacturer will provide around 3,700 mobility products and/or vehicles for the event, 90 per cent of which will be electrified.

The electrified vehicles Toyota will provide will include approximately 500 fuel cell electric vehicles and approximately 850 battery electric vehicles, the largest number for any fleet for a Games to date.

At Tokyo 2020, 2,700 vehicles will be part of the official fleet providing transportation support between venues during the Olympic Games. These will be commercially available vehicles, such as Mirai. Aside from the official fleet, Toyota will also support Games operations with other vehicles, including the mass-transit fuel cell bus Sora; assistive vehicles that will help lift passengers into their seats, or have a slope attached that passengers with wheelchairs can use to enter the vehicle via the back door; and other vehicles such as fuel cell forklifts made and sold by Toyota Industries Corporation.