California’s plans to ban the sales of gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035 is “difficult” to achieve as it may take longer for battery-electric cars (BEVs) to become mainstream, Toyota’s President Akio Toyoda said.
Toyoda said that BEVs will “take longer to become mainstream than the media would like us to believe,” citing its impact on the electrical grid and the lack of easy access to electricity as barriers to its adoption.
“Realistically speaking, it seems rather difficult to really achieve them,” the grandson of the automaker’s founder said at a press briefing in Las Vegas on Thursday.
Toyoda said that his company would continue to offer a variety of car models to customers while advancing its goals for electric car development, pushing back against critics who claimed that Toyota was slow to embrace BEVs….