Toyota, which refuses to believe that electric cars are the only solution for the future of the automotive industry, can note a significant increase in production compared to last year.
Toyota has published the brand's production figures for January 2025, and there is significant progress to be seen.
Compared to January 2024, Japanese car production has increased by 6 percent. This corresponds to Toyota having built 781,729 cars during January 2025.
Reuters writes.
Production in Japan in particular is picking up. Here, employees have been given 22 percent more to do, while in North America there is an increase of 3 percent.
However, the burden is being pulled by the Japanese and Mexican alone, as production has actually declined in both Canada and the United States.
Sales are not keeping up with production. In fact, the Japanese are only selling about the same number of cars as last year.
A 13 percent increase in the domestic market offsets a 14 percent decline in China and 1 percent in the United States.
2024 did not go quite as planned for Toyota, especially in Japan. This is due, among other things, to a number of cases such as fraud on Toyota's part. Read more about it here .
Speaking of sales, Toyota refuses to believe that electric cars will ever make up more than 30 percent of the world market.
Instead, the Japanese believe that technological openness – also towards technologies such as hydrogen combustion and synthetic gasoline/diesel – is the way forward.
