LAS VEGAS — Ambitious targets for electric vehicle sales — in California or nationwide — will be hard to achieve by 2030 or 2035, Akio Toyoda told reporters here last week.
Regarding California's mandate that will ban the sale of gasoline-burning vehicles by 2035, the Toyota Motor Corp. CEO said: "Realistically speaking, it seems rather difficult to really achieve that."
He added that a national goal of 50 percent zero-emission vehicles by 2030 would be "very difficult."