Toyota believes that electric vehicles are overrated
Chairman of the Japanese company Toyota Akio Toyoda (grandson of the company's founder Kiichiro Toyoda) believes that electric cars in the future will only be able to reach 30% of the total global car market
The remainder will come from vehicles with traditional, hybrid and hydrogen powertrains. As a result, Akio Toyoda notes that the final choice should be made by the clients themselves, and not limited by political norms. He also emphasized that approximately a billion people on the planet do not have access to the necessary infrastructure to operate an electric mode of transport.
The Japanese approach to electric vehicles is quite conservative. At the moment, the transition of companies to increasing the production of cars with an electrified powertrain, as they note, is due to a reduction in the amount of CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. At the same time, Toyota understands that when producing cars with internal combustion engines, the volume of carbon dioxide emitted is much less.