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Cleantech News / Munich, Japan. The BMW Group and Toyota Motor Corporation will strategically move closer together. BMW and Toyota announced today that they will jointly operate basic research in the field of lithium-ion battery technology for electric cars. It should go to the lithium-ion batteries, the "next generation". In addition, the BMW Group delivers fuel-saving diesel engines to Toyota Motor Europe. Generally, the companies plan to examine other potential projects in environmentally friendly technologies.
BMW and Toyota want to build better vehicles
"With this step we are joining forces to promote the development of environmental technologies and our innovation leadership in the respective segment," said Norbert Reithofer, Chairman of BMW AG. Akio Toyoda, president of Toyota Motor Corporation, said: "To promote the development of the automotive industry and society, both companies on their extensive knowledge and experience - first with environmentally friendly technologies - bring to the alliance, in order to build more and better vehicles."
The closer cooperation between Toyota and BMW is one of many "elephants marriages" that have emerged just in the field of electric mobility in recent years.
Unusual is that other people want to move about as in the cooperation between Volvo and Siemens, in this case, two OEMs in the automotive industry together. Strategically, the liaison but especially BMW makes sense is to suggest that BMW might also be interested in know-how of the Japanese in the field of hybrid technology. There the Europeans the Japanese car maker Toyota is still lagging behind.
