【CNMO News】Due to environmental protection and vehicle cost considerations, electric vehicles have now become the first choice for more and more people when buying new cars, which also makes the global sales of new energy vehicles still have a high growth rate when the overall car market is not optimistic. However, for Japan, a major automobile country in the fuel age, it seems that the wave of electrification has not swept the region, and even its automotive industry has decided to form a unified camp against full electrification.
Toyota
At the recently concluded G7 summit, former Toyota President Akio Toyoda, chairman of the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association (JAMA), once again expressed resistance to full electrification, and his remarks were supported by companies including Suzuki, Isuzu, Yamaha Honda and Mazda.
In the view of these Japanese companies, the development of pure electric vehicles has a difficult practical problem, that is, the scarcity of battery materials, which will limit the future development of electric vehicles. At the same time, in their view, the current electricity transition to renewable resources is not entirely clean energy, so other power solutions are needed to reduce or replace the use of fossil fuels.
As the former head of Toyota, Akio Toyoda has proposed more than once that pure electric vehicles are not the only answer to the environmental protection of cars. Hydrogen fuel cells and synthetic fuels can also solve the problem of emissions from fuel vehicles. In addition, he believes that hybrid can also reduce vehicle emissions more likely when battery production capacity is limited.
Toyota hydrogen fuel vehicle
As a competitor of Toyota, Honda, although it affirmed the future development opportunities of electric vehicles and invested in the construction of battery factories, the company also did not give up its development in other fields. In mid-May, Honda also announced the development of a hydrogen fuel cell system for Isuzu's heavy-duty truck, which will be launched in 2027.
Although Japanese car companies are still cautious about full electrification, from the current sales volume of the domestic auto market, people do not seem to buy it. Since the second half of last year, Japanese brands that had previously enjoyed unlimited domestic scenery began to encounter sales Waterloo, and this trend has become more obvious after entering 2023. On the contrary, new energy vehicle companies such as BYD and Tesla have begun to gradually catch up with or even surpass Japanese brands in domestic sales.