Toyota surprises: bets on an electric car, but with something, that (almost) no one does

Can you rely on the electrification of hybridization, which is zero emissions? The truth is that yes, and Toyota wants to become one of the great cars to demonstrate it over the next few years. He just signed an agreement with Mazda and Subaru to add another branch to his movement catalog. In fact, this is a curious dynamics: Bets on a new generation of heat engines to incur electric vehiclesField

No matter how it seemed counterproductive and Roman, what Toyota considered not new. The company, together with Subaru and Mazda, are already working on development New extremely effective base of thermal enginesThe field is the goal? Include them in electric cars of the Japanese company to Replenish the battery in full MarchField

This concept is called EREV, and despite the fact that it is not new, Toyota has a good portfolio of effective terms, which can help this new category in the popularity of the brand. According to the fact that the company commented, these new generation engines will be smaller, light and will be purposefully exceed 41% thermal efficiencyField

Will the Toyota electric car have a combustion engine?

The truth is that yes, at least, this is a generation of vehicles that the company intends to include before affecting the 100% electric sector. This is an intermediate step that makes bets on the markets, where the inclusion of a network of loaders is not very extensive or in the nuclei, where the electric car currently does not have room.

The operation is simple: EREV is always advanced by an electric motor that feeds on batteriesThe combustion engine is valid only once: when it is necessary to reload the battery. He never provides tractionBut he is responsible for creating energy to continue the power system.

Toyota commented that this system has several advantages. The first and most important: the fact that the engine does not provide traction makes a car system that controls its contribution, The ability to work in an ideal round mode And more environmentally friendly.

That is, Toyota can make a specific engine for generating energy, leaving aside that it should behave well, based on the fact that the user is gaining an accelerator. And, although there are still no numbers, the system promises to compete with you with current hybridization due to automatic control of heat engines.

The second advantage is sometimes. This EREV system leads a car with an electric motor that feeds on the battery, so The heat engine is not always activeThe field is actually, only if the cell begins to load, and you do not have a charger nearby, this load enters the game. That is, it would solve the problem of many users and current electric vehicles in order to go long distances in certain cases.

Unfortunately, Toyota did not give concrete numbers about autonomy, expenses for fuel or efficiency, so it is necessary to wait. The Japanese company confirmed that He will begin to implement this system in ChinaWhere he intends to launch the version of EREV SUV Highlander and Sienna Minivan.

So far, yes, in the West it’s time to wait. The company did not announce international plans for its EREV, although it seems that in its catalog it is a strong commitment in its catalog, which at some point should reach our lands.