2026 Toyota RAV4 just the first to benefit from Arene and Toyota's WOVEN CITY

A dispatch from the automaker's “let's just try it” city finds hydrogen fuel cells, automated parking robots, and a robust spirit of innovation.

For a planned high-tech community created by an automaker, Woven City is not laser-focused on automobiles and transportation. In fact, to get a glimpse of Toyota's priorities here, look to the pedestrian stoplights at intersections. They remain a constant green, until the connected city senses an approaching vehicle and turns them red.

This focus on pedestrians over vehicles is one small part of Toyota's rebranding as a mobility company. Toyota announced Woven City at CES 2020, converting its recently closed Higashi-Fuji factory, which built over 7.5 million Toyota vehicles during a 53-year run, into a blank slate for new technologies, automotive and otherwise.