Toyota, which has fallen behind in the transition to electric vehicles, ranked last in a new report published on climate lobbying and electrification.
The majority of automobile giants have started their transition to electric vehicles in order to create a sustainable future. However, there are some companies that do not adopt this approach. Perhaps the most prominent of these is the Japanese company Toyota. Considering that electric vehicles will not be adopted as much as expected, the company does not make any move on this issue and continues its internal combustion vehicles. The company’s only fully electric vehicle is the bZ4X.
This attitude of Toyota is, of course, also reflected in research on electric vehicles. InfluenceMap’s “climate lobbyingThis year’s version of the report published every year on the subject once again reveals that the company is at the bottom in this regard.
Toyota ranks lowest in terms of lobbying:
InfluenceMap regularly ranks automakers and the auto industry on how hard they are lobbying to stop climate targets. These rankings not only show how companies are doing on their electrification plans, but also but also how much effort governments are putting into concentrating on these moves. also reveals. They are measured on many things, from plans to produce electric vehicles to informing officials about these climate targets.
In the new report, Toyota ranked last with an organization score (how much lobbying was done) of 45%. It ranks second from last with 52% in the relationship score, which indicates how positive lobbying efforts are. It received 41% in terms of interaction intensity, which shows how involved it is in lobbying activities. In the scoring determined as a result of all these, He placed last with a D.
TeslaAlthough it is at the top, due to its low interaction density,B.” took it. Ford, General Motors, Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz follow with C and C-. It seems that companies other than these five are not very good at electrification, receiving a D. It is also noteworthy that Japanese automakers, including Toyota, receive low scores in terms of lobbying. Excluding top-ranked Nissan, Suzuki, Mazda and Toyota are in the bottom three in terms of positive lobbying.
The ranking of companies according to their electric car targets by 2030 is as follows:
When we take a look at the targets for 2030 Tesla is at the top with 100% We see that it takes place. Mercedes-Benz, with a target of 71%, is in second place, and BMW, with a target of 69%, is in third place. In the last third, there are Japanese manufacturers again. Toyota is third from the bottom with 29%, Honda is second with 24%, and Suzuki is last with 10%. next.
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It should be noted that companies’ electric car targets have started to change recently. Companies expected slowed down its plans to go fully electric due to lack of demand and that they planned to continue producing internal combustion vehicles. This shows that Toyota is not wrong, at least for now. Of course the company one of the five largest automobile companies in terms of environmental damage We should not forget that he is one.
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