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SEPTEMBER 4, 2015
Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) will be investing approximately $50 million over the next 5 years to establish joint research centers at Stanford and MIT, focused on the research and development of intelligent vehicle and mobility technologies. —Kiyotaka Ise, TMC Senior Managing Officer and Chief Officer, R&D Group.
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NOVEMBER 6, 2015
Toyota Motor Corporation is establishing a new company, Toyota Research Institute Inc. The headquarters will be located in Silicon Valley near Stanford University, with a second facility to be located near MIT. TRI’s CEO will be Dr. Gill Pratt, Toyota’s Executive Technical Advisor.
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DECEMBER 5, 2013
Toyota Motor Corporation has licensed the intellectual property (IP) of WiTricity, an MIT spin-off commercializing an approach to “mid-range” wireless charging (distances from a centimeter to several meters, earlier post ).
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FEBRUARY 13, 2014
Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) will begin verification testing of its newly developed wireless battery charging system for plug-in electric vehicles—such as plug-in hybrids and battery-electric vehicles—in late February in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The new function is coupled with Toyota’s Intelligent Parking Assist system.
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JANUARY 6, 2016
Last November, Toyota Motor established a new company—Toyota Research Institute Inc. At a press conference at CES 2016, TRI CEO and Toyota Executive Technical Advisor Dr. Gill Pratt laid out his new company’s near-term approach and challenges it seeks to address, as well as its much larger ambitions. Earlier post.) (The
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APRIL 27, 2011
In the Toyota Global Vision announced in March, TMC expressed its commitment to leading the way to the future of mobility by integrating automobiles, homes and information technology. The collaboration is aimed to accelerate development and eventual implementation of wireless charging for automobiles.
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OCTOBER 28, 2011
A team of MIT researchers lead by Prof. A paper on the research, which was supported by the US Department of Energy’s Hydrogen Initiative, the National Science Foundation, the Toyota Motor Corporation and the Chesonis Foundation, is published in the journal Science. Yang Shao-Horn, in collaboration with Prof.
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