Toyota to build new combustion engines
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Akio Toyoda, chairman of Toyota Motor, revealed on Friday that the Japanese automaker has launched a project to develop a new internal combustion engine, saying, "We will continue producing engines because they still play a role as a practical means of achieving carbon neutrality," or net-zero emissions of carbon dioxide.
Toyoda, former president and CEO of Toyota, made the remarks in an address to the Tokyo Auto Salon 2024, the world's largest exhibition of modified vehicles. The exhibition began Friday at Makuhari Messe, a huge convention center in in the city of Chiba, near Tokyo, with both Japanese and overseas manufacturers displaying sports cars and modified vehicles.
"Making engines may look like Toyota is turning back the clock on the trend" toward greenhouse gas cuts, Toyoda said, "But that is never the case. Engines are necessary for the future." Although he did not disclose details on the new project, the automaker is promoting development of new engines, including a hydrogen-fueled engine that emits no CO2.
Akio Toyoda, chairman of Toyota Motor, revealed on Friday that the Japanese automaker has launched a project to develop a new internal combustion engine, saying, "We will continue producing engines because they still play a role as a practical means of achieving carbon neutrality," or net-zero emissions of carbon dioxide.
Toyoda, former president and CEO of Toyota, made the remarks in an address to the Tokyo Auto Salon 2024, the world's largest exhibition of modified vehicles. The exhibition began Friday at Makuhari Messe, a huge convention center in in the city of Chiba, near Tokyo, with both Japanese and overseas manufacturers displaying sports cars and modified vehicles.
"Making engines may look like Toyota is turning back the clock on the trend" toward greenhouse gas cuts, Toyoda said, "But that is never the case. Engines are necessary for the future." Although he did not disclose details on the new project, the automaker is promoting development of new engines, including a hydrogen-fueled engine that emits no CO2.
JordonTucker said:
It goes against the common belief that electric cars are the only way to go green.
Indeed. We have had 120 years of infrastructure built around petrol and dieselbased transport. That isn't going to go away any time soon, whatever daft things
politicos say to try to collect votes.
Lots of infrastructure to enable most of us to use electric cars simply doesn't currently exist.
We'd have to rewire the nation to do that. That won't be cheap or happen overnite.
ICE engines are very highly developed and very much more efficient than they
used to be. 50+ mpg is common these days.
Someone somewhere just needs to find a way to make petrol and diesel
in an eco-friendly way and we are sorted and can keep existing infrastructure.
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