Toyota Motors Chairman Akio Toyoda claimed that a U.S. electric vehicle mandate would hurt jobs as far as Japan.
The Biden administration is pushing for 50% of new vehicle sales to be electric by 2030 on top of a 67% target by 2032. Toyoda’s skepticism of reaching such a threshold comes as his own company sold 49.3% of all hybrid electric vehicles sold in August alone. The chairman said he personally likes gas-powered vehicles.
“There are 5.5 million people involved in the automotive industry in Japan,” Toyoda told reporters Thursday. “Among them are those who have been doing engine-related (work) for a long time. If electric vehicles simply become the only choice, including for our suppliers, those people’s jobs would be lost.”
Meanwhile, the Transportation Department is struggling to provide chargers as it promotes electric vehicles under the Biden administration’s…
