On October 3, Toyota said it will commercialize a plant-based biofuel by 2020, with an eye toward marketing a hybrid vehicle powered by the environment-friendly fuel.
For the biofuel, Toyota has already developed an ethanol-producing yeast through efficient fermentation of sugar from napier grass, an inedible tropical species of grass.
The automaker said it will work to develop low-cost techniques to produce the biofuel by 2015, in the course of achieving its practical use by 2020.
