The green floors of JATCO’s Fuji Area 2 factory hum with quiet confidence. “Our company will have to change drastically.” So far, Japan and its carmakers are lagging in the race towards eVs, the industry’s fastest-growing product area. Abe Shinzo, Japan’s prime minister from 2012 to 2020, championed policies to make Japan a “hydrogen society”; in 2015, Toyota delivered its …