Of all the people the
ceo or president of Toyota has said that we shouldnt be putting all of our eggs into the EV basket. I fully expect him to be fired tomorrow, charges by the next day, and then executed by thursday.
“I am often criticized in the press because I won’t declare that the automotive industry should commit 100% to BEV,” he said. “I believe we need to be realistic about when society will be able to fully adopt battery-electric vehicles and when our infrastructure can support them at scale.”
Toyoda compared the rush to EVs as similar to companies a few years back promising we’d all be riding around in self-driving cars by now. He said EVs, like self-driving cars, will take longer to become mainstream than most pundits proclaim.
He also said Toyota isn’t a company that takes a “one-size-fits-all approach” to its products and that there are alternative solutions for meeting carbon neutrality goals. At Toyota, some of these solutions include
carbon-neutral synthetic fuels, hydrogen fuel cells, and even
engines that burn hydrogen. Toyoda said he sees hydrogen as just as promising as EVs in the fight against carbon emissions,
especially for the transport industry, and that he recently drove a Yaris powered by hydrogen and was “blown away by its performance.”
