E-Palette Concept Truck

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Toyota Motor Corporation on Monday announced its E-palette business system which chairman Akio Toyoda described as a "mobile showroom as a platform for an e-commerce-on-demand retail experience, a multi purpose moving experience, mobile personal shops, an individual, personalised mobile showroom".

He sees the autonomous, all-electric vehicles with fully reconfigurable interiors forming clusters of On Demand Cities.

Examples shown at the CES technology event here in Las Vegas include food service, mobile casino, shoe repair, retail shops and so on.

"This is just one example of Toyota's vision for auto mobility solutions," Toyoda said.

As car autopilots become common, it seems some things now done at fixed locations, such as stores and warehouses, will become mobile. Eventually, food may be picked and delivered to your door without stopping at a store or warehouse, including fresh food and prepared. It will cut costs. There will be similar things done with durable goods, but this segment of the market seems more difficult to fully mobilize.