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Satoshi Ogiso

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Satoshi Ogiso

ToyotaDevelopment lead

Worked on hybrid vehicles for 17 years from G21, which led to the first Prius, and led the first Aqua from the planning stage

Timeline

  1. 1983

    Joined

    Toyota Motor Corporation Chassis Design Department

  2. 1993

    G21 Project1993–

    1993–Development team member

    Models it produced

    Let me do just the study

    In his thirties, Ogiso kept saying he wanted to work in product planning. At the Higashi-Fuji research center, the G21 project, which explored what a high-volume compact sedan for the 21st century should be, was first to have an advanced development department sort out the technologies. Ogiso volunteered to join even if only for the study, and after the three-month study he stayed on even when a formal team was set up in product planning with Takeshi Uchiyamada as its chief.

    Toyota Motor Corporation Higashi-Fuji Technical Center

  3. 2007
    Prius 3rd generation
    Prius 3rd generation

    2009–2015Development leaduntil 2007

    Worked with

  4. 2011
    Aqua 1st generation
    Aqua 1st generation

    2011–2021Development lead

    Driving with the meters printed on paper

    Ogiso wanted the 3.5-inch LCD display in the Aqua's instrument panel to look clean and neat. Just asking the supplier's designers did not produce the screens he had in mind, so he did layouts himself, decided the background had to be black, and got hold of the screen data to rework it. He printed several screens on paper at actual size, stuck them on the instrument panel of his own car, and checked how they looked while driving.

    Chief Engineer, Product Planning, Product Planning DivisionManaging Officer

  5. 2013

    Managing Officer

  6. 2015

    ADVICSRepresentative Director and President

  7. 2018

    Senior Managing Officer, CV Company President

  8. 2021

    Hino MotorsRepresentative Director and President

Connections

Satoshi Ogiso

Satoshi Ogiso

  • Akihiko Otsuka

    Akihiko Otsuka

    Subordinate

    Otsuka joined the third-generation development team to support Ogiso, who had worked on the Prius since the first generation, and later took over the post of chief engineer from Ogiso.

  • Takeshi Uchiyamada

    Takeshi Uchiyamada

    Superior

    Ogiso, who had volunteered to join the G21 project that led to the first-generation Prius, stayed on the project after the formal project team was launched with Uchiyamada as its chief.

Profile

Graduated from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering in 1983. Chief engineer of the first-generation Aqua. From the planning stage onward, he directed development from the front line as development lead throughout.

Translated from Japanese sources.

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