Toyota does not want the imposition of electric cars
Electric cars are the future, or at least that’s what the politicians want. But some major car companies are beginning to oppose this transition, which is being carried out “too quickly”.
This is where some manufacturers begin to openly doubt not so much about the electric car per se, but about the imposition of one technology on another. No manufacturer closes the electric car band, not even Toyota or Mazda, two critical voices with the electric car, but almost all manufacturers play both sides.
On the one hand, they develop and sell more and more new battery electric models. So, whether with more or less success, almost everyone has an electrical project or part of it. And on the other hand, he invests in some kind of product, be it hydrogen or fuel.
They believe it is the best combination of technologies
And here, we are talking precisely about brands like Toyota. So the Japanese have been very vocal against electric cars from the beginning. The Japanese manufacturer does not yet consider himself to be the best mobile option in the future. While other competitors have moved to this technology, the Japanese brand has always focused on hybrids, leaving the appearance behind.
Now, Toyota is starting to move this way with the first platform for the development of electric vehicles. However, he still hasn’t made the leap to all-electric, and is now using science to disprove EV extremists.
Yes, who is the leading scientist of the Japanese manufacturer, states that the best sustainable design will be a combination of electric vehicles, hybrids and other ecological technologies, and not all in an electric car is a battery.
This is more; The Japanese government has announced its goal to have 200,000 diesel vehicles on the road by 2025, and 800,000 in 2030. Data from Toyota speak of some 160 hydrogen service stations in Japan, and raised them to 320 in 2025 and up to 900. ending in 2030
Add to this opinion also Mazda or BMW
This is how the firm resumes multi-technology strategy which allows you to discard the roads and choose them most in demand from customers.
So, even at the recent Tokyo Motor Show they came to present a hybridization kit for gasoline cars, a partial solution that could enable old fuel cars to continue while reducing their polluting emissions.
Anyway order; because the truth is that Toyota does not completely reject the electric car, but rather thinks that a more diverse approach should be made. In addition, it predicts a global shortage of lithium, which is the most important material in the use of lithium-ion batteries used in 100 pure electrics, hybrids and plug-in hybrids.
This is more; The Japanese brand has an electric car on the market, but it has not given the expected results, which also makes this thought even more powerful. Such is the case with the Toyota BZ4x, the first electric model of which only 1,200 units have been sold in the world. Models like the Toyota Mirai, which relied on hydrogen and fuel cells, sold only 2,000 units.
In their case, and following this opinion, there are brands such as Mazda or BMW, which say that the combustion car should not be abandoned. And they say it very clearly: “if you don’t want to sell combustion engines, someone else will,” as Olivier Zipse, from the German manufacturer, said. “Only with a six-cylinder engine are we going to reduce CO2 emissions more than ever with a generation change,” he emphasizes.
