Over the years, Toyota has been at CES many times to make announcements about how it plans to go from being a classic automaker to a modern mobility company that supports an entire ecosystem. In 2018, Toyota introduced the e-Palette concept, a flexible electric platform that can be used simply for a variety of use cases, adding automated shuttles and delivery vehicles. In 2020, we heard about Woven City, a long-term concept network that leveraged generation for a variety of uses, adding mobility. At CES in 2025, Toyota will re-stock Woven City.
Since the initial announcement of Wired City, Toyota has created an entire business unit called Woven Planet and now known as Woven Through Toyota (WthroughT), which incorporates many of its next-generation mobility efforts. This includes the 2021 acquisition of Carmera, Lyft’s level five automated driving unit and its collaborative mapping platform, an investment in WeaveGrid for vehicle-to-grid integration, and a partnership with May Mobility to test its driving formula automated in e-Palette prototypes. . Training
Woven City is among the most ambitious of these projects, creating an entire new community that also serves as a business and technology incubator. Located on the former site of Toyota Motor East Japan’s (“TMEJ”) Higashi-Fuji Plant in Susono City, southeast of Mount Fuji, the first phase of Woven City completed construction in October 2024. Later this year, about 100 Toyota and WbyT employees and their families will start moving in along with five initial partner companies. Eventually, about 360 people will live in phase 1 with about 2,000 in total in later phases. The residents and visitors are known as “weavers.”
The whole concept of “weaving” revolves around weaving something new into an ecosystem. It is also an allusion to Toyota’s origins as the inventor of the world’s first automatic looms before construction automobiles.
The knitted city will serve as a testing center for new mobility ideas, including smaller individual cars, robotics and other technologies, as well as a business incubator. Among the long-term residents, there will be older people who will help them try out ideas for their lives. Robots that can be partners and assistants will be part of the projects. Automated cars such as the e-Palette will also be evaluated for moving other people and goods, as will e-VTOLs manufactured through Jothrough. At CES at a press conference, President Akio Toyoda even discussed the concept of building rockets.
This summer, Toyota will launch a presentation festival so that more concepts can explore the woven city. The first organization of corporations or “inventors” in Wired City includes:
Companies participating in first wave of Toyota Woven City project
Clearly, Tissé City is not limited to mobility facilities and testing new types of vehicles. There is a wide diversity of participants with the purpose of creating a new type of network for the 21st century. As the population ages, especially in Japan, many of those concepts may be imperative to allowing Americans to continue living independently. Toyota plans to make its manufacturing expertise available to its inventor partners, as well as the software capabilities it has built within WbyT.
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