{"id":13283,"date":"2021-02-10T07:48:31","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T21:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/?p=13283"},"modified":"2021-02-10T07:48:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T21:48:31","slug":"japans-automotive-brilliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/manufacturer-news\/japans-automotive-brilliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan’s Automotive Brilliance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tokyo, Japan<\/p><\/div>\n

You can\u2019t go anywhere around Australia without noticing just how many Japanese made vehicles are motoring around our roads (and off them).\u00a0 Since the 1960s, Japan has been among the top 3 automotive manufacturers in the world. \u00a0The country is home to a number of motor companies, and you\u2019ll be familiar with them:\u00a0Toyota,\u00a0Honda,\u00a0Nissan, Mitsubishi, Suzuki,\u00a0Subaru,\u00a0Isuzu.\u00a0 There are, of course, more than these mainstream manufacturers.\u00a0 Japan has around 78 car-manufacturing factories in 22 regions, and these employ over 5.5 million people (more than the entire population of New Zealand).<\/p>\n

The strong competition that is happening on a global scale in the automotive industry has forced the manufacturers to come up with a new model design every four to five years. \u00a0Along with the new models, new innovative designs and new technologies are presented and used by the automakers in their new vehicles.\u00a0 Automotive manufacturing is the prominent manufacturing type in Japan, which takes up\u00a089% of the country\u2019s manufacturing sector.\u00a0 A large amount of time and money are invested into developing and improving the automotive manufacturing process, which, in turn, increases the quality and efficiency of their manufactured automotive products.<\/p>\n

Some of the brilliant new developments from Japan automobile manufacturers have led to distinct and innovative new designs for current and future automobiles. \u00a0In order to control the market dependency on fuels, and in order to design vehicles that are more fuel-efficient,\u00a0Japanese automakers\u00a0have invested and built\u00a0hybrid\u00a0vehicles and fuel-cell vehicles.<\/p>\n

The ideology and popularity of environmentally friendly vehicles is creating a wave of global interest and demand for these sorts of vehicles.\u00a0 More and more automakers around the globe are focusing on creating the types of vehicles that are friendlier on the environment to their production line.\u00a0 Japan\u2019s automotive manufacturers are leaders in this field.\u00a0 Japanese innovations in these technology sectors include autonomous taxi services and airport transportation, high-definition maps and open-source software modules for autonomous vehicles, advanced hydrogen fuel cell and alternating-current battery technology, and silicon carbide (SiC) semiconductor films for EV power electronics. \u00a0Japanese companies have been developing hydrogen fuel cell technology, which is projected to reach a market size of approximately $43 billion by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 66.9% from 2019 to 2026.\u00a0 Japan\u2019s prowess in creating autonomous vehicles and their resulting cutting edge safety features puts them well ahead of the game.<\/p>\n

An electric vehicle is an automobile that produces power from electrical energy stored in batteries instead of from the burning of fossil fuels.\u00a0 Top automakers such as Toyota, Honda, and Nissan are already class leaders.<\/p>\n

Hybrid vehicles use two or more distinct power sources to move the car. \u00a0Typically, electric motors combine with traditional internal combustion engines to produce power. Hybrid vehicles\u00a0are highly fuel efficient.\u00a0 Again, Japan\u2019s Toyota motor company is one of the automotive industry leaders in hybrid vehicle research and production \u2013 with the Toyota \u00a0Prius\u00a0model leading the way. \u00a0Hybrid variants are available on many of Toyota\u2019s collection of new vehicles.<\/p>\n

A Fuel Cell Vehicle is equipped with a \u201cFuel Cell\u201d in which electricity is generated through the chemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen.\u00a0 This chemical reaction provides the source of power to the motor. \u00a0Fuel cell systems operate by compressing hydrogen made from natural gas and gasoline, which is then converted to hydrogen by on-board systems.\u00a0 Toyota\u2019s latest fuel cell vehicle, the Mirai II, is sold in Japan.\u00a0 The Mirai II uses a Hydrogen Electrochemical\u00a0fuel cell that creates 130\u00a0kW.\u00a0 The electric motor that is powered by the fuel cell produces 136\u00a0kW and 300\u00a0Nm.\u00a0 It\u2019s very stylish, too.<\/p>\n

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Toyota Mirai II<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You can\u2019t go anywhere around Australia without noticing just how many Japanese made vehicles are motoring around our roads (and off them).\u00a0 Since the 1960s, Japan has been among the top 3 automotive manufacturers in the world. \u00a0The country is home to a number of motor companies, and you\u2019ll be familiar with them:\u00a0Toyota,\u00a0Honda,\u00a0Nissan, Mitsubishi, Suzuki,\u00a0Subaru,\u00a0Isuzu.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5120,6633,86,4923,4471,59,6216,4462,57,4049,4014,3071],"tags":[4892,6443,5578,3266],"class_list":["post-13283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automotive-design","category-autonomous-vehicles","category-blog","category-electric-vehicles-evs","category-environment","category-fuel-2","category-hydrogen-vehicles","category-japanese-cars","category-manufacturer-news","category-new-cars","category-sustainabilitygreen","category-technical","tag-evs","tag-fuel-cells","tag-hydrogen-cars","tag-new-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13286,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13283\/revisions\/13286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}