トヨタじどうしゃ自動車とマツダがいっしょ一緒にでんき電気じどうしゃ自動車をつく作る Toyota Motor Corporation and Mazda to Work Together to Build an Electric Vehicle by
Although Japan's car industry led the world for several decades, it is in danger of falling behind in the transition to electric cars (and beyond that to fully autonomous self-driving cars). In some recent news, Toyota, the largest car company in the world, announced a deepening of their electric vehicle collaboration with Mazda, another of Japan's biggest car companies.
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