The move is looking more like a calculated strategy, as BEV prices remain high and sales growth has slowed
, arguing that, even though hybrids produce some tailpipe emissions, they are a better way to reduce emissions overall since more people can afford them.
The automaker – which took journalists on a multi-stage drive from St. John’s to Victoria to celebrate its 60th anniversary here – has faced criticism for being slow to embrace BEVs. Instead, the company has beenToyota sold the first Prius in Canada in 2000, and first offered the hydrogen-fuel-cell Mirai in 2018. But it didn’t launch its first BEV,by Ottawa, meaning they qualify for federal rebates: the bZ4X, the Mirai and two PHEVs – the Prius Prime and the RAV4 Prime.
“There are obviously some people who wanted to go faster and they’re very passionate about it,” MacKenzie said. “But I think we just need to be realistic about the outcome in the short to medium term. Just because something works for you doesn’t necessarily mean it works for everyone.”The 1999 Toyota Prius next to the newest model on display at the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa.I was on the second wave of Toyota’s cross-Canada drive, starting in Halifax.
of new vehicle registrations in the second quarter of this year, ahead of British Columbia at 16.8 per cent – Emond hasn’t seen a huge demand for the bZ4X. In part, that may be because customers associate EVs with other established EV brands, like Tesla. MacKenzie said conventional hybrids sell at similar rates across the country and are “fairly popular everywhere” while the most PHEVs are sold in B.C., Quebec and Ontario. Most of its BEVs are allocated to B.C. and Quebec, the two provinces with their own ZEV mandates.car companies to sell an increasing percentage of ZEVs – starting at 20 per cent of new passenger car and light-truck sales in 2026 and rising to 60 per cent in 2030 and then 100 per cent in 2035.
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