I-road

The Toyota i-Road appears to be a promising congestion-buster, with a tiny on-road footprint and decent electric range. To make sure the tilting three-wheeler works in the real world, Toyota is handing a fleet of i-Roads over to consumers and businesses as a part of its Open Road Project.

The French city of Grenoble is introducing a fleet of shared electric cars from Toyota and the car company’s Ha:mo (Harmonious Mobility) system as part of an integrated transport management solution.

Narrow-track vehicles are almost certainly part of the solution for traffic congestion. Now Toyota is undergoing research in pioneering EV-sharing schemes for last mile multi-model transport in Japan and France using it's i-Road car-motorcycle combination and its Japan-only COMS EV.

Toyota's i-Road electric three-wheeler concept is set to make it off the drawing board and onto the road. A limited production run of the fully enclosed, tilting i-Road will begin shortly, with initial units being transferred to Toyota's Ha:mo urban transport system trials in Toyota City.

Toyota's i-ROAD is a fully-enclosed, tandem two-seater, three-wheeled, fully-electric, Personal Mobility Vehicle (PMV).