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According to a report from “NBD.com.cn” on December 26th, Toyota China’s Senior Executive Vice President Dong Changzheng said that “Akio Toyoda criticized electric vehicles” was a misunderstanding by the Japanese media.
Dong Changzheng explained that Akio Toyoda’s remarks were “To achieve electrification and carbon neutrality, it is necessary to coordinate the three major links of production, transportation, and use according to the same strategy. As a B2C product, cars are more likely to be criticized and questioned. However, I hope everyone understands that in the automotive industry, if the production and transportation links as the B2B part do not act together with the use links as the B2C part, it is difficult to achieve the goal.”
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Dong Changzheng further stated that Toyota China is currently accelerating its electrification development. At next year’s Shanghai Auto Show, Toyota will have a big move in the field of electric vehicles. In addition, Toyota China’s pure electric vehicle models developed in cooperation with BYD will make substantial progress next year, and the development of power batteries with CATL is also underway.
It was also reported earlier that Toyota plans to launch a two-seater compact electric vehicle in 2021, targeting commercial users and local governments in the Japanese market in the initial stage.
🔗Source: NBD.com.cn
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