Currently, Toyota operates around 390 fast chargers and 3800 regular chargers at its Japanese dealerships, but now aims to have 500 extra fast chargers installed by the end of the current fiscal year.
While it does mark an expansion of Toyota’s charger offering, it falls short of an earlier promise made by the company to equip all 5000 Japanese dealerships with high-powered chargers by the end of 2025. A spokesperson for the company told Bloomberg: “We do not focus on achieving a set number of chargers, but rather, install them based on needs and usage.”
Toyota lags behind its domestic competitors in terms of installing fast chargers at its dealerships; Mitsubishi and Nissan both already have high-speed chargers at the majority of their dealerships, with 90% of Nissan locations and 94% of Mitsubishi sites featuring fast charging. Toyota has also fallen short of another 2021 pledge to release 30 EVs by 2030 with 10 of these being launched by 2026.
While it has since announced further plans to triple its global range of EV models by 2027, the actual number is still relatively modest with only a handful of fully electric models currently in production worldwide. Additionally, CEO Koji Sato has said that Toyota may need to revise its goal of selling 1.5 million EVs annually by 2026 – something echoed by other carmakers in Japan, Europe and elsewhere.
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