{"id":12901,"date":"2021-12-03T16:42:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T21:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evglobe.com\/?p=12901"},"modified":"2021-12-03T16:42:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T21:42:31","slug":"toyota-sell-only-electric-vehicles-in-western-europe-2035","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evglobe.com\/2021\/12\/03\/toyota-sell-only-electric-vehicles-in-western-europe-2035\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyota will sell only electric vehicles in Western Europe by 2035"},"content":{"rendered":"
The world’s biggest car manufacturer is fashionably late to the EV party as Toyota claims the combustion engine still has a future in hybrids. The bZ4X<\/a> is the first of many zero-emissions models coming in the following years to pave the way for the purely electric era as the Japanese marque aims to achieve carbon neutrality by the middle of the century.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, gasoline and diesel engines will be dropped from Western Europe by 2035, according to Matt Harrison, who was appointed earlier this year as President and CEO of Toyota Europe. The announced cutoff date for the middle of the next decade doesn’t come as a big surprise considering sales of new ICE-powered vehicles might be banned altogether by then on the Old Continent if a proposal made by the European Commission is going to be approved.<\/p>\n