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Toyota Leads The Industry On Alternative Energy Patent Registrations

Toyota has a proven record of success with green technologies, thanks to the mainstream acceptance of the Prius and the hybrid vehicles that followed, and is set to make the same leap into hydrogen fuel cell technology with the Mirai, going on s


Toyota has a proven record of success with green technologies, thanks to the mainstream acceptance of the Prius and the hybrid vehicles that followed, and is set to make the same leap into hydrogen fuel cell technology with the Mirai, going on sale in Japan and the USA.

But it doesn’t stop there, in fact a recent study by Thomson Reuters has revealed that between 2011 and 2015 Toyota was granted 9807 patents for alternative powertrain vehicles.

To put that into perspective, the second-highest number of patents was awarded to component and systems maker Bosch, at a comparatively paltry 3057 patents.

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Kez Casey

Kez Casey migrated from behind spare parts counters to writing about cars over ten years ago. Raised by a family of automotive workers, Kez grew up in workshops and panel shops before making the switch to reviews and road tests for The Motor Report, Drive and CarAdvice.

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