{"id":633,"date":"2024-02-14T15:43:41","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T15:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/auto-future.org\/?p=633"},"modified":"2024-02-14T15:43:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T15:43:41","slug":"toyota-sells-record-nubers-of-plug-in-hybrid-hev-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auto-future.org\/index.php\/2024\/02\/14\/toyota-sells-record-nubers-of-plug-in-hybrid-hev-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyota sells record nubers of plug-in hybrid (HEV) cars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ module_class=”de-highlights” _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”-49px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_row module_class=”de-highlights” _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”-75px|auto||auto||” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”-56px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#000000″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]

Toyota was faulted strategically for not having enough pure electric (BEV) vehicles. Now the company is selling a record number of HEVs, as the WSJ reports. In the USA the growth of HEVs was faster than BEVs. \u201cAbout 1.4 million hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles were sold in the U.S. last year, compared with 1.1 million EVs, according to data from car-shopping website Edmunds. Hybrid sales were up 63% from the previous year, while EV sales climbed 51%,\u201d the WSJ writes.<\/p>\n

The story also contains the bold prediction by the chairman of Toyota. \u201cSpeaking to business leaders in Japan this year,\u00a0Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda<\/span><\/a>\u00a0said he expected EVs in the future to reach at most a 30% market share, with the rest going to other types of cars including hybrids and hydrogen-powered vehicles.\u201d<\/p>\n

If this is the case, key rivals will bring start rolling out more HEV and hydrogen cars.<\/p>\n

Read full article<\/span><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Toyota was faulted strategically for not having enough pure electric (BEV) vehicles. Now the company is selling a record number of HEVs, as the WSJ reports. In the USA the growth of HEVs was faster than BEVs. \u201cAbout 1.4 million hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles were sold in the U.S. last year, compared with 1.1 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18,1,14,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-companies","category-hev","category-propulsion","category-technology","category-toyota","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/auto-future.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/2020-Toyota-hybrid-line-up-1001x565-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auto-future.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auto-future.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auto-future.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auto-future.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auto-future.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/auto-future.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":639,"href":"https:\/\/auto-future.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions\/639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auto-future.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auto-future.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auto-future.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auto-future.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}