TOKYO — Electric vehicles took center stage when incoming Toyota CEO Koji Sato outlined plans to introduce a new EV platform and "drastically change" the way the company does business.
But another overhaul is underway that's just as important to Toyota's bold electrified future — the development of the software needed to run those battery-powered automobiles.
Woven Planet Holdings, Toyota's critical software-first company tasked with programming its next-generation digital cars, is itself going through some reinvention.
Among changes Sato identified in last month's business road map were tweaks affecting the spinoff, founded in 2018 as Toyota Research Institute-Advanced Development.