Toyota Research And Development Center
By the Editorial Staff
March 16, 2026
Toyota Motor Corporation Site introduces "R&D Centers". Toyota strives to be a good corporate citizen trusted by all stakeholders and to contribute to the creation of an affluent society through all its business operations. We would like to introduce the Corporate Principles which form the basis of our initiatives, values that enable the execution, and our mindset.
Toyota's investment to expand their research and development of hydrogen fuel cell technology in our state is an example of the innovation that will accelerate the development and deployment of zero-emissions transportation options, particularly as we decarbonize the goods movement sector," said CARB Chair Liane Randolph. Toyota coordinates and integrates all development phases, from basic research to forward-looking technology development and product development to ensure that Toyota rapidly and continuously develops cutting-edge, high-quality, and appealing vehicles. Toyota Research Institute (TRI) envisions a future where Toyota products, enabled by TRI technology, dramatically improve quality of life for individuals and society.
Toyota Motor North America's California R&D will be renamed the Hydrogen Headquarters. The facility will handle all of Toyota's hydrogen research and development in North America. Toyota Industries' R&D can be broadly divided into the two categories of product development and improvements performed independently within each business division in addition to R&D undertaken mainly by the Research & Development Center.
The latter is carried out from the perspective of Company. The Toyota Research Institute is a research and scientific development subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation. It is focused on developing technologies in artificial intelligence (AI), vehicular automation, materials science, and robotics.
Corporate 2025 Toyota Year in Review: Celebrating Innovation that Drives Mobility and Electrification Forward Mobility Toyota Aims to Bolster U.S. Hydrogen Infrastructure with Investment in FirstElement Fuel December 12, 2025 Research & Development Toyota Elevates Arizona Proving Ground to a New Level. Toyota moved a step closer to realizing its goal of creating fully integrated operations in the United States when Toyota Technical Center, U.S.A., Inc.
(TTC), Toyota's U.S. R&D arm, opened its new prototype-vehicle evaluation facility Thursday in California. The ceremony marked the first of several new R&D facilities Toyota will open this week as part of its more than $220 million plan to.
The Research & Development (R&D) team conducts engineering design, development, and testing for certain Toyota and Lexus vehicles, works with North American suppliers to evaluate parts and materials, and conducts powertrain design, tuning, evaluation, environmental safety and emissions certification.