Toyota presents concrete electrification plans for the Western European market. From 2035, the brand will only sell emission-free cars in Western Europe. These are electrically powered models with or without a fuel cell.
Like many other brands, Toyota did not sign the pledge made at the Glagow climate conference to sell only zero-emission cars worldwide by 2040. This goal would not be attainable due to major global differences, among other things. Toyota is now announcing concrete targets in this area for the Western European car market, where electric cars are rapidly gaining ground.
The Western European market, like China’s, has come a long way in electrification, so Toyota dares to make a big ‘EV promise’ for our part of the world. The brand aims to sell only zero-emission cars in Western Europe by 2035, assuming that by then there will be sufficient infrastructure for charging electric cars and refueling with hydrogen. Hydrogen technology is also part of Toyota’s vision for the future. Toyota expects electric cars to account for 50 percent of sales in Western Europe by 2030.
Although Toyota has been the master of hybrid technology for decades, it took some time for the brand to accelerate the development and launch of all-electric models. Toyota has a range of Stellaantis borrowed electric commercial vehicles in its range and will add the bZ4X at the end of next year. The electric SUV is the first, but certainly not the last, in a whole series of electric bZ models from the brand that should enable Toyota’s CO2 reduction targets for the Western European market. Toyota is committed to scaling up its worldwide battery production and, in addition to lithium-ion batteries, also builds NiMh batteries and set on the development of solid-state batteries.
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