Toyota Motor is really moving, the range of the next generation tram is 1448km, is the domestic car panicking?

Under the new energy wave, no car company dares to turn a blind eye, even Toyota, which has been boycotting electric vehicles, has recently changed its attitude towards cars and electric vehicles. Recently, it was reported that Toyota Motor has formulated a new electrification process plan, saying that Toyota's electric vehicle products will exceed 965km in endurance in the future, and even strive to travel 1448km on a full charge. From this point of view, Toyota Motor wants to make real moves in the field of new energy vehicles.

Optimize the battery technology, the range will reach 1448km

In fact, from the actions of Toyota in recent years, it still hopes to embrace this general trend, earlier Toyota Motor launched 11 pure electric concept cars at one time, but also said early on from 2020 to launch 10 pure electric vehicles, all kinds of actions are showing that Toyota is not so repulsive to car electric vehicles.

Now Toyota's electrification process planning has new news, planning to increase the range of its pure electric vehicles to more than 965km from 2026, and by 2028, electric vehicles can run 1448km when fully charged. In other words, Toyota's pure electric vehicles will have a great breakthrough in battery life after 3 years to further solve the range anxiety of electric vehicle users.

However, Toyota's long-range electric products will appear first on the Lexus brand, not ordinary Toyota models. According to Toyota's plan, the next generation of new energy products will be launched by the Lexus brand in 2026, and the new model will have a range of more than 965km, and will be equipped with next-generation lithium-ion batteries.

In addition, in 2026 and 2027, Toyota's new energy products will also use bipolar lithium iron phosphate batteries, which can not only increase the endurance by 10% compared with the previous generation of trams, but also reduce the cost by 40%, which helps Toyota's new energy products further reduce the market price. However, Toyota's bipolar lithium iron phosphate battery will take some time to be put into production, and its target is 2027-2028.

Of course, whether it is lithium-ion batteries, or bipolar lithium iron phosphate batteries, the physical limit is there, want new energy vehicles to have a better breakthrough in endurance, need to make efforts on solid-state batteries, and Toyota is well versed in this, plans to appear after 2028 solid-state batteries, the endurance of this battery can be increased by 50% compared with other batteries, to achieve Toyota's new energy vehicle range of 1448km.

From Toyota's new plan, it can be seen that the information displayed this time is mainly the advantages of the battery system, through upgrading battery technology, reducing costs and improving cruising range, so as to reduce consumers' car purchase threshold and further solve range anxiety. However, from the time node announced by Toyota, the pace is inevitably too slow, all planning will be realized after 3 years at the earliest, then what degree of progress will independent car companies progress, whether Toyota's battery technology still has advantages, it is really difficult to say.

It needs to be said that Toyota also said that the future of new energy vehicles will have a breakthrough in aerodynamics, and plans to produce models with a drag coefficient of less than 0.20cd within three years, when Toyota's new energy vehicles have a stunning appearance.

The strength is not bad, but there are too many concerns

In the field of new energy vehicles, Toyota's pace has not been fast, at present, Toyota's new energy products in China are mainly bZ4X and bZ3, with less model layout, and the market performance of these two cars has not been able to inherit Toyota's good performance in the field of fuel vehicles, and has lagged far behind independent car companies. Of course, Toyota's backwardness in the field of new energy vehicles is only a common phenomenon among overseas car companies.

But Brother Meow needs to tell everyone that Toyota lags behind in the field of electric vehicles, does not mean that it does not have technology, if you understand the development history of Toyota hybrid products, you should know that Toyota's hybrid technology has been 25 years now, and its hybrid models have a high degree of popularity in the global market, only in China you can see a lot of Toyota's hybrid vehicles running on the road.

What's more powerful is that Toyota's hybrid models have not had a single accident caused by battery failure, such as leakage, spontaneous combustion, explosion and other aspects in 25 years, which shows how hardcore, safe and reliable Toyota's technology in the battery field is.

However, Toyota, which has hard-core battery technology, has not been able to develop smoothly in the field of new energy vehicles, and the key reason is estimated to be because of national conditions. According to Meow Ge, Japan mainly relies on coal to generate electricity, accounting for 30% of the country's power generation, and its importance is self-evident. In this case, if Japan vigorously develops pure electric vehicles, it is easy to have a shortage of electricity, and the development of pure electric vehicles also needs to spend a lot of money to build infrastructure, so under various factors, Toyota's pace in the field of new energy vehicles is difficult to get rapid progress.

Of course, the national conditions are only one aspect, the internal operation strategy of the enterprise, the thinking trend of engineers, etc. are also important factors affecting Toyota's development in the field of new energy vehicles.

Epilogue:

Toyota's performance in the field of new energy vehicles feels a lot like a small snail, it walks slowly, but it keeps moving forward. Today, it is an indisputable fact that Toyota lags behind independent car companies in the field of new energy vehicles, but Toyota has not given up its research on new energy vehicles and continues to invest. And building a car is not a 100-meter sprint, but a marathon, requiring passion, but also need endurance, although the current Toyota lagged behind, but it has advantages in terms of capital and technology, and there is still hope to become the final winner.