The car industry is in a state of flux at the moment due to a slow transition away from gas-guzzling engines to full electric alternatives with hybrids in the middle. Toyota, which currently doesn’t sell a fully-electric vehicle in the US, believes electric vehicles are actually less eco-friendly than hybrids, and it has a valid reason to back up that claim.
As Popular Mechanics reports, Toyota’s Gerald Killmann, vice president of research and development for Europe, explained the thinking behind the company’s focus on hybrids over full-electric vehicles during the Geneva Motor Show 2019. The problem is one of battery production and allocation. Read more…
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