Just before Toyota’s annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday, which is expected to roll back climate change strategies, the company released a cache of information on technologies and timing. of electric vehicles.
Included in the download is more information about the battery and battery chemistry than it has previously revealed—including solid-state batteries that will enter mass production models as soon as 2027, with probably bring more than 500 miles of EPA rangebased on estimates of elevated CTLC.
Toyota electronic axle enables innovative EV packaging
Batteries aside, Toyota has introduced a number of other pieces of technology that will help make its electric vehicles even better in the future — including a miniature electronic axle for electric vehicles that it says is “made in the future.” nurtured through the development of HEV (hybrid) electric vehicles”. Toyota demonstrated how the electronic axle assembly, which includes the engine, gearshift and inverter, can reduce the vehicle’s height and frontal area—thus providing efficient support and increasing range.
The company also notes that the technology it is developing with supplier Denso that incorporates silicon carbide wafers reduces power loss by 50%—increasing efficiency by 10%.
Toyota EV concept for 2026
And in aerodynamics, the company promises to leverage its boundary-layer control knowledge—from the rocket’s supersonic aerodynamics—to “reduce aerodynamic drag without being constrained by shape.” the form of a car.”
That said, the Next-generation battery electric vehicle to launch in 2026 that Toyota has teased looks like it’s aiming for maximum aerodynamics of the wind tunnel in the traditional sense — with kammback styling, low ground clearance and a long arcing roofline. It seems to be a completely separate project from the project Three-row electric SUV will be built in the US starting in 2025.
Toyota Crown EV, from June 2023 Toyota technology update
With that in mind for the next few years, Toyota has introduced an EV that seems to be coming soon: a Toyota Crown Electric Vehicle which the automaker introduced is an exciting electric vehicle created “to meet the diverse needs of our customers.” Expect more of this model, including potential US availability, soon.
