Toyota plans to launch more than ten fully electric vehicles in the early years of the next decade. The manufacturer wants to start this in China, followed by Japan, India, the US and Europe.
Toyota wants to sell more than 5.5 million cars with an electric motor by 2030. The lion’s share of those will be plug-in hybrid models, but the Japanese manufacturer wants more than 1 million of those 5.5 million cars to be fully electric-powered models. This concerns electric cars with only batteries or fuel cells.
From 2025, the manufacturer wants every car of the Toyota or Lexus brand to be available as an electric model or at least as a plug-in hybrid model. No more models will be made without an electric variant also becoming available.
There are other car manufacturers with similar, but also more ambitious plans. For example, the Swedish manufacturer Volvo previously indicated that from 2019 only cars with an electric motor will be made. Jaguar Land Rover will do the same as Volvo from 2020 onwards. Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi previously announced in September that they would release twelve fully electric models until 2022.
Mercedes-Benz recently announced that from 2022 the company will offer a variant with an electric motor of all car models; this concerns fully electric cars and hybrids. The Volkswagen Group announced in September that it would make an electric model of every existing car from 2030.