
NAGOYA, Japan -- Toyota Motor may have belatedly accepted that electric vehicles, their limitations notwithstanding, are becoming the way of the automaking world. But Japan's top car company remains fixated on what it considers the "ultimate" earth-friendly fuel: hydrogen.
Toyota recently formed a joint venture for electric vehicle development with group supplier Denso and Mazda Motor, pouring staff and expertise into the effort to convert technology into actual products faster.