Tokyo will pull out all the stops in order to host the most futuristic Olympics yet.
If you’re the official « mobility partner » of the 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics in Tokyo, and you also happen to be a Japanese automaker with some pretty crazy mobility concepts, you’d be a fool not to have them on display. But
Toyota’s
going to do one better than that.
Toyota announced this week that it will have functioning versions of two concepts — the Concept-i and the e-Palette — on the ground in Tokyo during the Olympics. They’ll serve different functions, but it should be the first time that both will be operating in public.
The e-Palette is an electric, autonomous box that first appeared at this year’s
CES
in Las Vegas. It’s designed to ferry humans around by day and cargo by night, and it previews Toyota’s idea of the future, where autonomous vehicles are sharable for all manner of uses.
