Fasten your seatbelt and gear up to drive this Self-driving electric vehicle from 2020

Tokyo, February 2: The year 2018 has been considered as a year of development in infrastructure and the automobile sector has also encompassed a considerable change. And therefore yet another set of innovation waits with Toyota revealing its self-driving concept vehicle, the ‘e-Palette,’ at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.

 

The vehicle is ought to be an electric, box-shaped vehicle which will come in three sizes. The largest will be around the size of a bus and be able to heave cargo and make large deliveries, while the smallest will be compact enough to travel on sidewalks. Toyota envisions the e-Palette will serve a variety of potential uses, allowing businesses to deliver goods, transport people, or use the vehicle as a mobile storefront or office.

Toyota will design the vehicle with a tie-up from companies like Amazon, Didi, Mazda, Pizza Hut, and Uber. Toyota has set its vision on to start testing it during the early 2020s and integrate the e-Palette into the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo.

The automobile industry is undergoing its most dramatic period of change as technologies like electrification, connected and automated driving are making significant progress. With the announcement of this electric vehicle it marks a major step forward in evolution towards sustainable mobility, demonstrating our continued expansion beyond traditional cars and trucks to the creation of new values including services for customers.

In 2017, Toyota introduced a similarly futuristic concept vehicle that would have airless tires. Apart from this the world is set to comprise in itself the use of solar cars and the use of solar energy covering each and every sector of infrastructure and automobile industry.