The Japanese automobile giant Toyota, world leader in the sector, announced this Friday that it intends to sell 1.5 million 100% electric vehicles in 2026, a segment in strong development but in which the group is currently lagging behind. By the end of 2021, Toyota had announced its intention to sell 3.5 million electric vehicles per year by 2030, or around a third of its total annual sales.
The group is currently a very marginal player in this segment: in 2022 its 100% electric sales totaled less than 25,000 units.
“We are determined to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 across the entire life cycle of our vehicles,” Toyota’s new CEO Koji Sato said at the first press conference since taking office on Jan. 1 in Tokyo. April.
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The group wants to reduce global CO2 emissions from its vehicles by 33% on average by 2030 and “more than 50%” by 2035, compared to 2019, Sato added. Like his predecessor Akio Toyoda, Mr. Sato intends to follow a “multi-channel” approach to electrification.
In addition to accelerating in 100% electric vehicles, Toyota will continue to bet on its current strong point, hybrid vehicles, of which it sold more than 2.6 million units worldwide last year.
The group is also interested in synthetic fuels for heat engines, and its hydrogen efforts will be redirected to trucks, while sales of its Mirai hydrogen car languish at a few thousand copies a year.
Source: BFM TV
