Toyota going all-out with electric vehicles for the 2020 Olympics

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The Olympics and Paralympics are coming to Tokyo next year, and official fleet provider Toyota is planning a massive deployment of battery-electric and hydrogen-powered vehicles.

The automaker says it will provide “3,700 mobility products and/or vehicles” for the Olympics, 90 percent of which will be “electrified.” That can mean either battery-electric, hydrogen-powered, or even gas-electric hybrid. Of the 3,700 vehicles, 850 will be battery-electric and 500 will be fuel-cell electric.

3,700 “mobility products and/or vehicles”

The vehicles come in all shapes and sizes: cars, buses, shuttles, scooters, mopeds... you name it. Toyota sees the Olympics as its big chance to showcase its lineup of experimental and alternative fuel-powered...

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