Toyota will be unveiling 10 battery electric vehicle (BEV) models across the luxury, SUV, compact and sedan, commercial and MPV as well as sports segments by 2026, the manufacturer has announced at its 2023 financial results press briefing presentation this week.
Among these will be compact models for emerging markets – which could include Malaysia – as denoted in the middle row of the table during the speech by CEO Koji Sato. That there are no silhouettes in the compact/sedan segment as with the other product segments in the table suggests that the product for emerging markets is still very much in its early stages.
The 10-model rollout was initially revealed by its vice president Hiroki Nakajima in April, when it also announced that the manufacturer will create a special unit for the development of next-generation EVs.
These new models scheduled for launch from 2026 will collectively be built on three new platforms, namely for the body and chassis, the electronics platform and the software platform, according to Sato’s address. These will go towards Toyota’s target of reaching a sales volume of 1.5 million BEVs by 2026.
The Japanese manufacturing giant also announced earlier this week that it will restructure its battery-electric vehicle business through abolishing its current zero-emissions vehicle (ZEV) outfit for the establishing of BEV Factory, a new, dedicated organisation that will expedite EV development and business growth.
Locally, several units of the bZ4X fully electric SUV has been deployed for testing on Malaysian roads prior to its official launch later this year, with several having been registered for this purpose.
Put on display at the UMW Toyota Motor office in Shah Alam, Selangor, the two examples of the bZ4X are front-wheel-drive units powered by a single 204 PS/266 Nm electric motor.
This is fed by a 71.4 kWh lithium-ion battery pack that offers up to 500 km of range according to the WLTP test cycle. Charging is either AC via a Type 2 connection up to 6.6 kW, or DC via a CCS2 connection up to 150 kW, the latter enabling a 0-80% charge in 30 minutes.
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HEV: carbon-emitting ICE driven (i.e. Prius)
PHEV: carbon-emitting ICE +charging (i.e. 330e)
BEV: pure charging motor-battery driven (i.e. Tesla)
2050 still many years away
HEV will be on-focus to sell more ICE
Else plants closing, many heads will roll..
A few thousand heads rolls because of plants closing better or a few million people’s head rolls because climate change causing sea level rise and basically submerging most of the coastal cities around Malaysia? Your choice.
Climate changed is capitalists propaganda. The real side effect of carcinogenic air pollution via ICE emission always targeted your upper respiratory system and lower respiratory system
This is the biggest scam ever to fool idiots like yourself. Not a single IPCC alarmist prediction has come true. Not one. Not a single IPCC climate model projection on temperature increase has come true. Maldives was supposed to be underwater more than 10 years ago according to their predictions and models. Insect mass extinctions was supposed to already have happened and yet it hasn’t. We’re supposed to be up to 6 degrees warmer vs 1990 and yet the total temperature rise vs 1990 is less than 0.5 percent and that’s averaging across all the temperature rises and dips over the past 3 decades.
Cita Cita saya
kamek suka toyota…. beli toyota jak
This is the problem with the Japs. Still want to categories emerging market, developed market, JDM…. People want want to be treated as people. Look at China. They give whatever models sold in China to others thought still lacking quality.
Most importantly, there’s still UMW getting in the way of Toyota, literally charging buyers additional 50% anything they get from Toyota, even just from neighbouring countries…
Toyota are creating low cost model that even Japan doesnt want, and sell to fanboys that thinking they have the proper Toyota model.
Sell GR Yaris that you cant afford, end up you buying the daihatsu vios thinking you have TNGA Supra chassis.
thats how Nokia died when they create rm4000 model that nobody could afford and keep selling you rm800 model that keep changing the shell.
Yes with the help from byd
imagine having literally the second tallest building in the world and still be called an ‘emerging market’.
More like ’emergency’ than ’emerging’..
Malaysia is a perpetual emerging market
Make sure the door notch exist in the real car.
Emerging market equals to low class. Smme day we should stop buying from Toyota and switch to Chinese instead