Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) and Tsinghua University have extended their joint research conducted through the Tsinghua University-Toyota Research Center for five more years. Tsinghua University and TMC have been conducting joint research in four fields—environmental science, energy, automobile safety technologies and materials science—since the establishment of the center in March 2006.
With the aim of enhancing mutual technical capacity, Tsinghua University and TMC started holding joint technology courses in 1997 and conducting individual joint research projects with the university’s laboratories in 2003. The research center was established to realize even closer collaboration.
Main Joint Research at Tsinghua University-Toyota Research Center from March 2006 to March 2011:
- Purification of wastewater, large-city air quality, simulating reducing nationwide automobile CO2 emissions;
- China energy-scenario forecasts, underground sequestration of CO2;
- Characteristics of drivers in accidents in China, building the model of crash test dummies; and
- Batteries, thermoelectric materials, solid-state electrolytes, magnets.