Abstract
Toyota’s research arm, Toyota Research Institute, will invest about $35 million over the next four years to develop advanced battery materials and fuel-cell catalysts. Toyota has been a leader in developing hybrid electric cars such as the Prius, but in the full-electric car market, its battery technology trails that of Tesla. Toyota hopes to close the gap with research that merges computational materials modeling, new sources of experimental data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Its goal is to reduce the time it takes to develop new materials. Toyota’s move to use computer technology for developing novel chemistries follows BASF’s recent decision to buy a supercomputer to accelerate research in fields such as catalysis. Toyota will collaborate with Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Michigan, the University at Buffalo, the University of Connecticut, and the U.K. materials science company Ilika. Ilika has been working with Toyota on solid-state
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