As early as 2026, 35 percent of all new cars must either run only on electricity or be plug-in hybrids in California. Toyota says it's impossible.
In the US state of California, if possible, the screw is tightened even more against the car factories than the EU does. But Toyota calls the new rules 'impossible' to live up to.
A politician in California has demanded that 35 percent of all new cars sold in the state must either be hybrids or pure electric cars.
By 2035 at the latest, the car factories must not sell a single new car if it does not run either fully or partially on electricity.
But that cannot be done, says Toyota's North American department now.
– I have not seen any figures or projections – either from the government or private prosecutors – that say it is possible to achieve, says the car brand's deputy director Jack Hollis.
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CNBC writes that.
Hollis believes that there is neither enough demand for electric cars, nor other models that can meet the future requirements. Toyota instead maintains that the new rules will 'restrict the customer's free choice'.
On the other hand, Toyota has long been critical of the electric car in general. The brand's chairman and former director Akio Toyoda, for example, does not believe that electric cars will ever gain more than 30 percent of the global car market.
It's just not the same as Toyota not working on the development of electric cars. However, the next all-electric car in the series from the Japanese will be developed by Suzuki. The latter brand already calls the car the e-Vitara.
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