---
title: "The Toyota Tundra PIE Pro Is a Hydrogen-Powered Mobile Pizza Factory"
description: "Pizza Hut and Toyota join forces on a delicious concept."
date: "2018-10-30"
modified: "2018-10-30"
authors:
  - name: "Eric Brandt"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/eric-brandt.md"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/24566/the-toyota-tundra-pie-pro-is-a-hydrogen-powered-mobile-pizza-factory"
categories:
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
  - "Toyota News"
  - "Trucks"
tags:
  - "concept"
  - "pickup"
  - "Pizza"
  - "Pizza Hut"
  - "Toyota"
  - "Toyota Tundra"
  - "Truck"
  - "tundra"
---

# The Toyota Tundra PIE Pro Is a Hydrogen-Powered Mobile Pizza Factory

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Toyota and Pizza Hut have dreamed up an idea to bring fresher pizza to your door faster than ever. It's a mobile pizza factory called the PIE Pro; a Toyota Tundra pickup that’s been heavily modified and turned into a machine that makes pizzas as it delivers them.

In the bed of this Tundra sits a pizza oven, [pizza boxes](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/16017/this-license-plate-made-with-a-pizza-box-and-magic-markers-doesnt-fool-police.md>), a refrigerator, and little pizza-making robots the back of the truck. They're not tossing dough or anything: a preprepared pizza is removed from the fridge, placed on a conveyor belt where it goes through the pizza oven, cut into eight slices, and placed in a box. It takes six to seven minutes for this moving kitchen to crank out one pizza.

![message-editor%2F1540921503871-piepro1.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/message-editor/1540921503871-piepro1.jpg>)
**Pizza Hut**

The Tundra that’s carrying this equipment is no ordinary pickup. Its gas engine has been swapped out in favor of a [Toyota Mirai](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/1474/what-its-really-like-driving-a-hydrogen-fuel-cell-car.md>) powertrain, which means this thing runs on hydrogen. That's where we lose the plot a bit—it's a concept design, of course, but the idea of cooking pizzas during delivery is an interesting one that companies have so far failed to master. The whole PIE Pro is a little less plausible once you throw in something like a hydrogen fuel cell.

“We’re bringing the oven closer to the consumer’s door; nobody is doing that,” Pizza Hut’s chief U.S. customer and operations officer Nicolas Burquier said in an interview with [*Bloomberg*](<https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-30/pizza-hut-will-enlist-robots-in-quest-to-slice-delivery-times>). “We are pretty obsessed with improving the customer experience. The more we can get closer to their homes or the point of delivery, the better and hotter the product will be.”

![message-editor%2F1540921519980-piepro2.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/message-editor/1540921519980-piepro2.jpg>)
**Pizza Hut**

Pizza Hut doesn’t know if or when they’ll actually be operating trucks like this. There are obvious drawback to making pizzas in an open air pickup bed—weather being a big one—but it’s still a good demonstration of existing technology that could make a vehicle like this actually work. It just might be better in a big van.

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