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In the madness of any industry, there will always be people standing up and throwing cold water on it. This time it's Akio Toyoda.
On February 20th, 65438, Akio Toyoda, the head of Toyota Company, expressed his views on electric vehicles, which quickly spread on the Internet.
Akio Toyoda believes that the current electric vehicles are over-hyped, and supporters have not considered the carbon emissions generated by power generation and the cost of electric vehicle transformation. In his view, pure electric vehicles will actually bring more pollution. If the Japanese government ends fuel vehicles prematurely, the current automobile business model will collapse, many enterprises will die, and many previous investments will be wasted.
Japan plans to completely ban the sale of fuel vehicles, and the overbearing president is in a hurry.
Akio Toyoda's shelling is related to the Japanese government's recent plan to ban the sale of fuel-powered vehicles in 2035. According to the report of Japan Coal Network, the Japanese government is considering to completely stop selling fuel-fired vehicles in the mid-1930s, and strive to achieve the goal of "zero net emission of greenhouse gases" in Japan by 2050. This caused dissatisfaction with Akio Toyoda.
"The more electric cars we produce, the more serious carbon dioxide emissions will be." Akio Toyoda believes that if all cars in Japan are powered by electricity, there may be a power shortage in summer. At the same time, the infrastructure required for the overall transformation to electric vehicles will cost 1.4 trillion to 37 trillion yen (about 885 billion yuan to 2,340 billion yuan).
It is reported that Japan's electricity is mainly supplied by burning coal and natural gas. When more electric vehicles are produced, the demand for electricity is greater, which leads to more serious carbon dioxide emissions. In addition, if the government forcibly bans fuel vehicles, it will make ordinary consumers pay higher costs.
Akio Toyoda also pointed out that if the Japanese government bans fuel-efficient cars too hastily, the existing business model of Japanese cars will collapse and even lead to millions of people losing their jobs.
In April this year, Toyota Motor and BYD jointly established BYD Toyota Electric Vehicle Technology Co., Ltd. Toyota also announced that by 2025, the global sales of electric vehicles will reach 5.5 million, five years ahead of schedule.
Attacking Tesla is seriously overestimated.
Since the beginning of this year, the trend of electrification and intelligence in the automobile industry has become more and more obvious, which has also caused Tesla's market value to soar. At present, Tesla's market value has surpassed all traditional automobile manufacturers and become the most valuable automobile company in the world.
Regarding the market value of Tesla, Akio Toyoda made a rare sharp remark last month: "Tesla not only seriously overestimates its value of 400 billion US dollars, but also is not mature enough to influence the global automobile trend, especially in the field of electric vehicle technology."
Akio Toyoda compared "running a restaurant" and described the difference between Toyota and Tesla. "Tesla claims that their recipes will become the future car standard, but Toyota has real kitchens and chefs." In his view, Tesla is a restaurant that still promotes fresh recipes, while Toyota is more like a restaurant with a large number of customers.
Akio Toyoda admitted that the current valuation of Tesla has indeed exceeded the sum of the valuations of seven Japanese automakers, but he stressed that Toyota currently produces and sells many more cars and types than Tesla. According to institutional data, in 20 19, Tesla sold about 367,500 vehicles, accounting for only 3.4% of Toyota's average annual sales100000 vehicles. The gap in production capacity is even more obvious. Tesla plans to produce 500,000 electric vehicles this year, while Toyota's output is 6.5438+0.074 million.
At present, the intelligentization and electrification of the automobile industry has become an irreversible trend. Except Japan, governments all over the world are trying to limit the sales of traditional fuel vehicles in advance and vigorously promote electrified transportation. Recently, the British Prime Minister publicly announced that he plans to advance the original ban on the sale of fuel vehicles by 10 years and implement it from 2030. In addition, France, Spain and so on. It also announced a plan to phase out fuel vehicles between 2030 and 2040.
In this context, how to realize the transformation will be a huge challenge for traditional Japanese car companies.