Toyota The chairman Akio Toyoda has reinforced the commitment of his company for the prioritization of hybrid vehicles (HEVS) compared to battery-electric vehicles (EVS or BEVS), and explains that hybrids are ideal for reducing the entire CO2 emissions.
Talk through an interpreter in a recent interview with Automobile messagesToyoda-San said that Toyota was also obliged to reduce the environmental impact of cars like any other brand, but has used a cost and time-effective way of reducing CO2 emissions.
“When the term” carbon neutrality “began to become popular and we started to hear from him, we set our goal as a company that the enemy is carbon for us,” he said.
“The way we think about it was that we will not help to achieve carbon neutrality only by building BEVS, but we have to concentrate on things that we can now do so that we can immediately reduce CO2 from the air.
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“We looked at (and asked)” What can we do with the things we have to contribute to carbon neutrality? “This was the basis that we made our decision during this time, and that has not changed now and will not change for the future.”
Toyoda-San refers to the widespread introduction of hybrid vehicles that dominate the current model area of the Japanese brand.
Toyota is attributed to the creation of the first mass -produced hybrid car in the late nineties and has continued to develop technology into today’s market leading status.
The company’s car line -up is now dominated by hybrids, which shows the Australian ax of the Japanese brand of all petrol versions of cars that offer 2024 hybrid options.
Hybrids continue to play an important role in the global efforts of Toyota, not least in his home country. Toyoda-San claims that in the past five years the focus on hybrids has played a greater role in reducing Japanese CO2 emissions than EVS.
Above: Toyota hybrid range
“If you can check the data for each country via the CO2 emission situation in the past five years, this will be very clear,” said Toyoda-San.
“For Japan we had this weapon of hybrid vehicles, so we could reduce 23 percent of CO2 emissions (time) with the hybrid vehicles, and it was the only country that could achieve this.”
Toyoda-San added that his company had so far produced and delivered more than 27 million hybrids and claimed that the number “corresponds to nine million BEVS with regard to the contribution to carbon neutrality”.
“The hybrids we made and sold had the same effects as nine million BEVS on the street, but if we earn nine million BEVS in (Japan), this would actually have reduced CO2 emissions because we would rely on thermal carriers.”
Nevertheless, Toyoda-San confirmed that HEVS is not the only way forward, which indicates continued development of combustion petrol and diesel engines (ICES) as well as EVS, plug-in hybrids (PHEVS) and electric vehicles (FCEVS) of hydrogen fuel cells (FCEVS).
Toyota recently unveiled the next generation RAV4 SUV (above), which will be the first PHEV of the brand in Australia. The Mirai FCEV is currently also used by company fleets and government partners on site via very limited rental contracts.
The Japanese autogian is also part of an alliance with Subaru and Mazda to develop with lower ICEs in the future.
“I think we shouldn’t just concentrate (BEV) … but we should take a look at all the options we have and work in all directions,” said Toyoda-San.
“This will be similar to thinking as a person of the planet, not only from a perspective, but also from a perspective, but to think about the entire planet, and then we can think about the various options and take over the movements in order to reduce CO2 as much as possible.
“I think if everyone can support this way of thinking, it will also be to the benefit of all interest groups.”
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