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While Toyota is increasing its focus on battery-electric vehicles under the leadership of new chief executive Kohi Sato, it still considersWhile recently speaking at an endurance race last week, Sato said that Toyota will expand hydrogen infrastructure in the coming years. His comments came during the race when the carmaker had planned to compete in abefore its plans were dashed because of a fuel leak during testing on March 8.
“We want to ensure that hydrogen stays a viable option,” Sato said. “We need a production and transport supply chain. Unless we see evolution there, we cannot expect a volume increase in the energy’s use.” While Toyota will continue to invest in hydrogen, it says that it does not “have a very specific business goal” about how many hydrogen-powered models it will sell. Toyota had ramped up production of its fuel cells to 30,000 units a year following the launch of the
in 2020 but it has only sold 21,700 examples of the first- and second-generation Mirai since December 2014.
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