The times when Toyota boss Koji Sato had to be insulted as a latecomer are over for now. For a long time, foreign investors in particular criticized the fact that the world’s top-selling car company had next to nothing to offer in the field of electromobility. But Sato and his management colleagues repeatedly countered that Toyota customers in large parts of the world will not switch to purely electric cars in the foreseeable future because of the lack of charging options. The Japanese preached the strategy of many paths almost like a prayer wheel and meant that Toyota did not want to commit itself to pure battery operation for its engines. Instead, the group continues to rely on combustion engines, researches hydrogen engines and, above all, offers electric fans the hybrid vehicles once invented by Toyota, which combine driving with gasoline and electricity in a climate-friendly way.
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