The United States of California announced a ban on the sale of all new gasoline vehicles from 2035. However, Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda is not optimistic about this plan.
According to Automotive News, late last week, Akio Toyoda shared with reporters that it would be difficult to achieve electric vehicle goals like California’s. He believes that not enough people want an all-electric car yet.
Akio Toyoda cited the rushed pace of some automakers, adding that Toyota has no plans to rush out a lineup of pure electric vehicles like some rivals.
Toyoda also said it would be very difficult for only 50 percent of new car sales to be zero-emission vehicles by 2030, and advised against limiting the types of vehicles people buy. Toyota serves some 200 countries and territories around the world, which means it has to keep a close eye on market conditions and consumer demand, while some 1 billion people simply don’t have reliable electricity.
Akio Toyoda went on to talk about hydrogen being a good solution, something that Toyota has been developing for years. Akio Toyoda also touted the brand’s hybrids, noting that eight 40-mile plug-in hybrids could be produced for each 320-mile pure electric vehicle. He noted that this would be a better way to reduce carbon emissions.
Toyota invested billions of dollars last year as part of a plan to electrify its product line by 2030. Toyota plans to make about a third of its total global sales by the end of the decade to be pure electric vehicles. 30 pure electric vehicles will be launched by 2030.
