With Akio Toyoda stepping down as president, the Toyota Group has also ushered in a breakthrough in the development of a new dedicated platform for electric vehicles. Japanese media pointed out that Toyota’s new dedicated platform for electric vehicles designed from the ground up will be able to accommodate larger battery packs. It can also reduce production costs and time, and is expected to come out in 5 years.

The current e-TNGA platform is still subject to the configuration of fuel vehicles and lacks the unique flexibility of electric vehicles.

At present, Toyota's electric vehicles include bZ4X, Lexus RZ and other electric vehicles. Although the official said that it is equipped with an e-TNGA platform dedicated to electric vehicles, it can be found from the name that it is related to the TNGA platform of fuel vehicles, which means that it is still transformed from the fuel vehicle platform. , the design still needs to adapt to the configuration of fuel vehicles, and lacks the unique flexibility of electric vehicles.

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In order to better develop electric vehicles, the Asahi Shimbun reported that the Toyota Group has started to develop a new dedicated platform for electric vehicles, removing all the engine room and other spaces of the original fuel vehicles to obtain more flexible use, thereby accommodating larger volumes. Lithium battery pack, and further enhance the mileage of the car.

Toyota's future electric vehicles will be built on a new platform dedicated to electric vehicles.

In addition, from the statistics of Nihon Keizai Shimbun, it can be found that Tesla's net profit has surpassed that of Toyota. Even though the sales volume of the latter is 7.6 times that of the former, there is a huge gap in the profit of each car. After the development of the platform, it will save a lot of production costs and time in the future, thereby increasing sales profits.

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