Toyota has given an outlook on its future drive strategy in Europe. Toyota intends to increase the proportion of purely electric vehicles to at least 50 percent by 2030, and then only allow emission-free new vehicles from 2035. In addition, the first fully battery-electric Toyota model bZ4X is now celebrating its European premiere.

Toyota Motor Europe (TME) emphasizes three points in its strategy: the goal of carbon neutrality, the acceleration of the electrification plan and the ambition...

Toyota is establishing a joint venture in China with FAW, Dongfeng, GAC, BAIC and SinoHytec for the joint development of fuel cell systems for commercial vehicles. However, the Japanese will hold the majority in the joint venture called United Fuel Cell System R&D (FCRD).


As Toyota wrote in a statement, 65 percent of the FCRD stake will be held by the Toyota Motor Company. The Chinese hydrogen specialist SinoHytec will hold 15 percent, the four car companies each five percent....

Toyota plans to launch battery-electric versions of the Proace and Proace City in 2020 and 2021, respectively, with well-known PSA technology. But there is a difference to the tripods from PSA.

Toyota had already announced last year that the two light commercial vehicles Proace and Proace City would also be available as BEV in cooperation with PSA . Now the Japanese have given further details. Unsurprisingly, the Proace Electric uses the technical basis of its PSA sister models...