Toyota head Akio Toyoda has publicly questioned electric vehicles more than once, for China, the United States and Europe vigorously promote the road of pure electrification of automobile energy, Toyota's response has always been not so positive, according to Toyota's strategy, more like to maintain the diversity of power system technology, including hybrid, plug-in hybrid, hydrogen fuel cell, pure electric and other technologies.
This view is also echoed by Toyota chief scientist Gill Pratt, who recently told those extreme people who believe that pure electric vehicles are the only way to reduce global carbon dioxide emissions: "Science says you are wrong." ”
Gill Pratt said that time will tell us that no matter what, the world will always use a variety of traditional powertrain systems.
Gill Pratt
In fact, as early as October 2021, Gill Pratt put forward a similar point, that is, to combat climate change, everyone does not need to drive pure electric vehicles.
In order to prove its own point, it and the team's research said that it is more meaningful to allocate globally limited lithium batteries to more vehicles (in the form of hybrid and other drive forms) than to give as many pure electric vehicles as possible, as for the reason, it said: the shortage of lithium battery resources and charging infrastructure will cause an inevitable bottleneck in the development and popularization of pure electric vehicles.
Toyota is undoubtedly the world's largest, selling more than 10 million units worldwide last year, but due to the slow transition on the road to electrification, it has received a lot of criticism, recently, Toyoda Akio publicly said that he will officially resign in April, Toyota Group will be delivered to a new leader, then the scientist's statement, in a sense, is also a response to external criticism and statement.
