Toyota's Comprehensive Environmental Technology: Providing Choices for Sustainable Mobility

Toyota is committed to the development of advanced powertrains to help address concerns with future oil supplies, the impacts of increased carbon dioxide emissions, and air pollution. Towards that end Toyota is planning to bring to market in 2012 a plug-in hybrid vehicle, a short range electric vehicle, a long range electric vehicle and in the 2015 timeframe hydrogen powered fuel cell vehicle. This presentation will focus on our electric vehicle plans and the challenges with bringing electric vehicle to the market. From the 2010 Alt Fuels Study, Toyota has identified that two key barriers for EV adoption are the times to charge the vehicle, and electricity cost. The study finds that the current infrastructure could be sufficient for most driving needs but EV drivers will still need to alter their driving habits slightly. Also, it shows that utilities will need to keep the price of electricity competitive, as the fuel economy of hybrids continues to increase, in order for EVs to succeed.

Presenter
Takehito Yokoo, TOYOTA TECHNICAL CENTER