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1. Mid of Carlos Ghosn, Nissan CEO, driving on to stage in Nissan IDx Freeflow, and getting out
2. Wide of Ghosn on stage
3. Mid of Ghosn on stage alongside Nissan IDx Nismo
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Carlos Ghosn, CEO, Nissan Motor Corporation:
"We asked ourselves, what if we could reduce accidents? What if we could develop technology that significantly reduced energy consumption and traffic jams? What if you could make driving stress-free? We have committed to turn those 'what-ifs' into 'what is' by 2020, with the introduction of an affordable autonomous drive vehicle. Our goal is to expand the availability of this new technology across the model range, within two subsequent vehicle generations."
5. Pan across crowd taking photographs of Ghosn with car
6. Tilt up from crowd taking photographs to Ghosn
7. Wide of booths at Tokyo Motor Show
8. Mid of Toyota booth
9. Wide of unveiling of Toyota FCV Concept
10. Pan of headlights of Toyota FCV Concept
11. Mid of Toyota FCV Concept
12. Mid of Toyota FV2 being unveiled and opening up
13. Mid of Toyota JPN Taxi being unveiled
14. Wide of three new Toyota models, with Toyota Vice President Mitsuhisa kato walking on to stage
15. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Mitsuhisa Kato, Vice President, Toyota Motor Group:
"The future society which we envision is filled with the smiles of our customers. And we hope that what sustains those smiles, will be cars. Here at Toyota, our motto is (English) : "Fun to drive again."
16. Pan across Jaguar booth at Tokyo Motor Show
17. Mid of Honda booth with new NSX model
18. Pan inside Honda NSX
19. Tilt down Mitsubishi Motors booth to screens showing new models of cars
20. Mid of Mitsubishi AR
21. Wide of Mitsubishi Motors booth
Electric cars and fuel cell vehicles leapt into the limelight at Tokyo's auto show on Wednesday, reflecting the accelerating shift towards greener vehicles.
Over 400 foreign and domestic vehicles were on display at the biennial Tokyo Motor Show, which hosts over 30 Japanese and foreign automakers as well as dozens of parts makers and industry related exhibitors.
Earlier Wednesday, Nissan unveiled 3 new vehicles at its presentation.
One is the eye-catching all-electric "BladeGlider," a three-seater vehicle that is designed with aerodynamics in mind and is powered by a lithium ion battery.
Nissan also unveiled the IDx Nismo and IDx Freeflow.
While Nissan increases its lineup of green vehicles, President and CEO Carlos Ghosn announced that the company will aim to also introduce self-driving vehicles by 2020.
"We asked ourselves, what if we could reduce accidents? What if we could develop technology that significantly reduced energy consumption and traffic jams? What if you could make driving stress-free?," he said.
"We have committed to turn those 'what-ifs' into 'what is' by 2020, with the introduction of an affordable autonomous drive vehicle. Our goal is to expand the availability of this new technology across the model range, within two subsequent vehicle generations."
Meanwhile, Toyota concept sedan FCV offers a glimpse of what consumers could expect from fuel cell cars in the not so distant future.
Toyota plans to mass market fuel-cell vehicles in 2015.
Another concept, the sleek Fun Vehicle 2 (FV2), does away with the conventional steering wheel and is controlled by the driver's body movements instead.
"The future society which we envision is filled with the smiles of our customers. And we hope that what sustains those smiles, will be cars. Here at Toyota, our motto is "Fun to drive again." said Toyota Vice President, Mitsuhisa Kato.
Honda rolled out 6 world premiere vehicles, including the hybrid sports car NSX and the S660 convertible concept that revisits one of its popular cars from the 1960s.
This year's show marks a turnaround for automakers from the previous show in 2011, which was held only 8 months after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
At the time, major automakers were forced to suspend production as factories and parts suppliers were hit by the earthquake and tsunami, causing serious supply chain disruptions.
Tokyo Motor Show opens to the public on Saturday November 23rd and runs until Sunday December 1st.
