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On December 15th Toyota announced its production plan for January 2022. Toyota said it plans to produce 800000 vehicles worldwide in January 2022, while its target of 9 million in fiscal year 2021 (April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2022) remains unchanged.

It is understood that Toyota produced 740000 vehicles worldwide in January last year, compared with the same period last year, and increased by 60,000 vehicles in January next year. The purpose of increasing car production is to accelerate the annual production of 9 million vehicles, which was previously set for fiscal year 2021. Toyota said this week that it had to stop some production in Japan in December because of a shortage of parts, resulting in a loss of 14000 vehicles that month, according to media reports.

What is worth being integrated is that just two days ago, without any warm-up, Toyota made a big move and shocked the auto industry by releasing more than a dozen new electric cars at once. In addition, Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda announced a decade-long goal. Toyota plans to spend $35 billion on developing electric cars. Toyota is expected to launch 30 pure electric vehicles worldwide by 2030. The ultimate goal is to sell 3.5 million vehicles worldwide by 2030.

In addition, its high-end brand Lexus will become a pure electric brand in Europe, North America and China by 2030, and by 2035, new cars under the Lexus brand will only sell electric cars, implying that Lexus will take the lead in transforming itself into a pure electric brand within Toyota in the future. Later, Akio Toyoda said on the official Weibo: "Toyota is sometimes considered to be not positive enough towards pure electric vehicles, and we will speed up our efforts on BEV vehicles." It is estimated that by 2030, the introduction of 30 BEV models, BEV global annual sales plan to reach 3.5 million.

In fact, it has been reported that Toyota plans to launch a small pure electric SUV in the Chinese market next year, which will use BYD lithium iron phosphate blade battery. at that time, BYD officials said that the project is still in the confidential stage of research and development, and the announcement of both parties shall prevail.

On December 14, Toyota unveiled a number of bZ pure electric concept cars, including this one. The bZ SDN concept car will be the first all-electric vehicle built by Toyota and BYD. It is expected to debut at the Beijing Auto Show, which opens in April next year, and go on sale by the end of 2022. According to reports, the bZ SDN concept car is positioned as a pure electric medium-sized sedan, and the new car will learn from the design language of some Toyota bZ4X concept cars in styling. In addition, the future mass production version will use lithium iron phosphate blade battery technology from BYD, and the price may be less than 200000 yuan.

In fact, Toyota has previously signed a contract with BYD, including the joint development of cars and pure electric models with low chassis SUV, as well as the power batteries needed for these products. Future products will use the Toyota brand and are scheduled to be launched in the Chinese market by 2025. On March 25, 2020, BYD Toyota Electric vehicle Technology Co., Ltd. was officially established with a registered capital of 345 million yuan, headquartered in Pingshan District, Shenzhen. The legal representative of the joint venture company is Zhao Binggen, general manager of BYD Automotive Institute, and the chairman is an Hongshang, president of Toyota Global Powertrain. In other words, Toyota's bZ series of models announced this time are likely to be developed by BYD Toyota Electric vehicle Technology Co., Ltd., which was previously established as a joint venture with BYD.

So far, according to official data, the Toyota brand has about 100 models in more than 170 countries and regions, including fuel vehicles, hybrid vehicles, plug-in plug-in hybrid vehicles and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. The Lexus brand has about 30 models in more than 90 countries and regions, including fuel vehicles, hybrids and plug-in hybrid vehicles. According to the latest plan, Toyota is expected to add 30 BEV models by 2030, expanding the range of "carbon neutral models".

On the sales side, Toyota sold 677564 vehicles worldwide in October 2021, down 20.1% from a year earlier. Toyota said global sales fell for two consecutive months compared with the same period last year, and global production fell for three consecutive months, mainly due to outbreaks in Southeast Asia and shortages of parts and semiconductors. Now that the lack of core has been alleviated, it is normal for Toyota to increase its production in January, and as to whether Toyota's big push into electric cars will be able to catch up, the answer may not be known until 2030.

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