New Toyota trucks are one of the industry’s best-kept
secrets. The Toyota Tacoma and Toyota Tundra are capable on and off-road, just as capable of
handling heavy work as they are a fun weekend away. There’s a new Toyota truck
on the road ahead that you won’t find at Keyes Toyota, but that’s already
revolutionizing trucking around Los Angeles.
The new Toyota truck isn’t a pickup. It’s a semi currently in testing in
Port Los Angeles. It combines the lessons learned from Toyota pickup trucks
with the same fuel cell vehicle technology that underpins the Toyota Mirai FCV.
In short, the Toyota Motor Corporation is betting big on big rigs.
The test program, called Project Portal, aims to
eventually replace the hundreds of high-pollution drayage trucks currently used
at the port with FCVs. They don’t sacrifice power, but they’re quieter,
cleaner, and more efficient.
Given that we already have Toyota trucks, forklifts,
and other industrial-grade machinery (some of it through the company’s heavy
industry subsidiaries like Hino), this is less of a stretch than it seems on
the surface. Once the technology has proven itself, it’ll go from in-port
intermodal transportation to wider use on the roads around Los Angeles and
across the United States.
You may not be shopping for a semi, but you should
welcome this news anyway. Why? Because even the technology in a Toyota vehicle
you don’t own will make its way to consumers at your Los Angeles-area Toyota
dealership, and then be copied by other manufacturers, eventually. In the
meantime, why not see the best the company has to offer right now? Visit Keyes
Toyota at 5855 Van Nuys Blvd in Van Nuys, CA today.
The trucking industry is a very important one, in fact, many would argue that it is the most important one in the United States. Everything you’ve ever owned has probably seen the inside of a semi-truck at some point. We’ve all seen them on the road and while we might sometimes get annoyed with them, we must remember that our society would crumble without them. These huge vehicles are responsible for your food, your medicine, your clothes, and just about everything else you have ever touched besides the soil on the ground outside. In fact, a giant truck might have transported that too, you can never tell these days. shermandodge.com/New-Jeep-Grand-Cherokee-Chicago.htm
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