Toyota has its plans scrapped for new models of electric cars to produce. According to the car manufacturer, who admits a wrong estimate of the market have made hybrids for the time being the best choice.
The Japanese Toyota has announced that are fully electric powered city car, the eQ, which in 2010 was introduced in the United States and Japan bad sell; there would be only around a hundred eQ’s are sold in these markets, while Toyota had expected that thousands of copies would be able to wear. The company admits that it’s a positive estimate of the demand has been made, reports Reuters. The plans for the introduction of new electric cars are also provisionally on the back burner.
According to Toyota executive Takeshi Uchiyamada, who is responsible for the development of new vehicles, there are still too many drawbacks to the current technology, making electric cars do not meet the requirements of the consumer. So is the range too limited, the time it takes to charge the battery too long and are electric cars expensive to purchase.
Given the disappointing sales of electric cars, Toyota has indicated that the 2015 hybrid models on the market will bring. The company, with the Prius in the late nineties a successful hybrid introduced, features 21 models with hybrid drive is planned, of which fourteen new models and seven models that use a facelift.
The carmaker is expected in the coming years, over a million hybrids to be able to sell. In may was the counter is already at 4 million sold Toyota’s that have both a gasoline engine as an electric motor. Incidentally, the electric-powered Toyota RAV4 EV, with a Tesla Motors-developed, still next year in the United States.
