Toyota hopes to showcase eco-friendly tech at 2020 Games

NAGOYA – Toyota Motor Corp. is considering developing an electric vehicle for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games in a bid to showcase its eco-friendly technology, sources close to the move said. Toyota, one of the top-tier sponsors of the games, plans to introduce the EVs among the official cars used for transporting athletes and officials between venues, the sources said Wednesday. The nation's largest automaker has signed on with the International Olympic Committee and International Paralympic Committee to be a worldwide partner. Under the deal, reached in 2015, Toyota will work with the committees through 2024 to provide "sustainable mobility solutions," according to the games organizing committee. The sources said Toyota is hoping its EVs, which emit no carbon dioxide, will be used along with other vehicles, including the automaker's fuel-cell models, which run on hydrogen and produce only water emissions.