Toyota: a waiver for the future?
It 's official: Toyota Motor leaves Formula 1. And 'the crisis .... Even the largest vehicle manufacturer in the world leaves the racing world: too high costs and too few successes in recent years (in fact, Toyota is in F1 circus since 2002).
One thing struck me the ad: the $ 300 million to market sources believe coostituiscano Toyota F1 budget will be devoted to research and development of environmentally friendly hybrid cars, as well as models for low-cost countries development.
I'm sorry for Jarno Trulli, but maybe it's a good sign.
These days H2Roma mobilityshow did catch a glimpse of the future (next door to the Toyota iQ - is a kind of smart, but it has 4 seats: Unbelievable but true - of course there is nothing else), but still far future if the houses manufacturers decide not to invest heavily in new alternative fuel engines. Toyota seems a timid example, it is giving.
But the road is still long, especially because it is not yet clear in what will be the technology to bet on (hybrid? Electric? Hydrogen? Traditional more efficient? Biofuels?)
