Many major automakers continue to look at the popularization of electric cars as the mass-market way forward. General Motors already announced its wide-range strategy, but now Toyota has declared its plans.
The Japanese automaker announced on Monday that it aims to sell 1 million zero-emission vehicles per year by 2030 and broke down its electrification goals. The electrified range of vehicles will include hybrids, plug-in hybrids, battery-electric and fuel-cell electric vehicles. In total, Toyota hopes this strategy will make for 5.5 million electrified car sales by 2030. The automaker did not provide additional detail on vehicle types or new product forthcoming, but it did say more than 10 new electric cars are in the pipeline.
GM announced it will roll out 20 new all-electric cars by 2023, one of the more expansive plans to date. Volkswagen may be one of the only brands taking an even more aggressive approach. GM will reveal two all-new electric vehicles in the next 18 months as well.
What Toyota did mention, and GM did not, are next-generation solid-state batteries. The batteries promise incredibly long ranges compared to today’s lithium-ion units and fast-charging is quoted around the five to ten-minute mark for nearly a full charge. We’re sure GM will explore solid-state batteries itself, too, but GM hasn’t made anything official yet.
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They all are working on the solid state batteries. GM just has not gone public with it yet.
They will be key if they can get the charge times down, keep the range up, not degrade under fast charge and keep the price reasonable.
Unfortunately, Toyota will build better and more reliable electric car than GM…
Not on their best day, they are only for their pierce of junk Hydrogen vehicle which will go no where. I have had two Volts and have a Bolt. not one minute of trouble. I had a Prius v nothing but trouble. Test drove Prius Prime plug in its a joke. Ford C-MAX ENERGI Is a 100% better vehicle then the Prius. People need to wake up Toyota is not even close.
Yeah but it’s that 45 seconds of trouble that can suckerpunch you
Wasn’t Toyota’s hydrogen vehicle the car the amazing Joel Ewanick was betting on?
I’d read that he was working with Toyota, and opening a chain of hydrogen stations up and down the coast.
Prohibitively expensive, opens to much fanfare, then goes awfully quiet, as Joel is wont to do…
Toyota officially announced their goal by 2030, yet GM will get them out by 2023. So Toyota will be seven years behind in market and technology. GM has a big seven year head start now. Maybe Toyota will make their EVs disposable so when the battery is dead, just throw that EV away and buy another.
Unfortunately, Toyota will build the better and more reliable electric cars than GM
Right, build better and more reliable electric car’s. That’s just a number gm set that’s all. Toyota is building hybrid plug in, car’s, electric plug in car’s and hydrogen fuel cell car’s. Gm is building Full electric plug in car’s, hydrogen fuel cell car’s, and Hybrid cars as well (Corvette, Full size trucks/SUV’s / Camaro). If ICE are going to be out lawed in these coming year’s, were are all those hybrid plug in car’s going to be at? Also 20 is not these total number of electric car’s gm will have over these coming year’s.
So true raymondjram, Four electric car’s by 2020, two starting in 2019, an new electric chassis in 2021.