More focus on EVs
Under the leadership of former CEO Akio Toyoda, Toyota has long had a look at fully electric cars. A new CEO has recently taken over the Toyota throne, which means, among other things, that Toyota will increasingly focus on electric cars in the coming years.
Since the beginning of this month, not Akio Toyoda, but Koji Sato has been CEO of Toyota Motor Corporation. Under Sato’s leadership, Toyota and luxury brand Lexus must transform into brands that will put away huge numbers of EVs. A huge turnaround and a new Toyota Mobility Concept strategy for Lexus and Toyota should ensure that the parent company sells 1.5 million fully electric cars by 2026. By 2022, there would have been just 25,000, according to Automotive News. In other words: Sato wants to increase the number of EVs sold by Toyota and Lexus worldwide sixtyfold. There is also an ambitious plan for 2030. Lexus – which will only sell EVs from 2035 – must already sell 1 million EVs in 2030. The entire Toyota Motor Corporation wants to sell 3.5 million EVs by 2035.
Within the next three years, Toyota and Lexus would jointly present ten new fully electric models. Part of it will be placed on the well-known e-TNGA platform that also hides under the Toyota bZ4X and on which the Lexus RZ also rests. There are also models in between on a new modular platform intended for EVs. Among the newcomers must also be an electric crossover with three rows of seats that must be built in the United States. The bZ label will in any case be expanded in Europe and Toyota has an electric pick-up and ‘a compact EV’ in the pipeline for markets in Southeast Asia, among others. The greater focus on electric cars does not mean that Toyota is paying less attention to hybrid models or cars with a fuel cell on board.
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– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl