Toyota will Present FT-EV II in Tokyo

Project FT-EV II (Future Toyota Electric Vehicle II – A Prospective Electric Toyota, iteration II) is focused on creating a “routine” vehicle, which will be able to move also in “very slow” lane of highways.

Lithium-ion battery gives the FT-EV II an opportunity to run for about 90 kilometers on a single charge. Maximum speed is 100 km/h. This is enough to move on the highways – certainly not in the extreme left (or right – in Japan and England) series.

Unfortunately, Toyota doesn’t report the time of recharging the battery and the weight and dimensions of the engine. Even the weight of the Toyota FT-EV II is unknown.

But the Japanese are not stingy with the description of the interior. The developers call it “retro-futuristic”, which at first glance seems oxymoron. However, if you look at the interior photos provided by Toyota, this impression passes. The car looks like an illustration of the artist to the science fiction novel, written somewhere in late 1970′s, or as a “car of the future”, as it seemed to engineers of the same years.

There is no steering wheel and pedals. Instead, the control of the electric vehicle takes place by means of two control lever, as in airplanes. There is another aviation analogy – FT-EV II can go on autopilot.

Autopilot functions are beyond the ordinary navigation. Users can download to a central computer of FT-EV II “their” audio-visual content, which will serve to autopilot as “guide to action.”

Toyota intends to represent the concept car FT-EV II at Tokyo Motor Show in late October.