Simply forward of Toyota’s annual shareholder assembly Wednesday, the place pushback over its methods on local weather change was broadly anticipated, the corporate launched a cache of details about electrical car applied sciences and timelines. 

Included within the obtain was extra details about batteries and battery chemistries than it had beforehand revealed—together with solid-state batteries arriving in a mass-production mannequin as quickly as 2027, maybe bringing greater than 500 miles of EPA vary, primarily based on inflated CTLC estimates. 

Toyota e-axle permitting improved EV packaging

However batteries apart, Toyota touted a number of different know-how items that can assist make its EVs higher sooner or later—together with a downsized e-axle for EVs that it says was “cultivated via the event of HEVs (hybrids).” Toyota demonstrated how the e-axle meeting, which would come with the motor, discount gear, and inverter, can scale back the peak and the frontal space of the car—thus aiding effectivity and including vary. 

The corporate additionally famous know-how it’s creating with provider Denso that includes silicon carbide wafers for 50% much less energy loss—boosting effectivity by 10%. 

Toyota EV idea for 2026

And in aerodynamics, the corporate guarantees to make the most of boundary layer management data—from the hypersonic aerodynamic work of rockets—to “scale back aerodynamic drag with out being restricted by the form of the automotive.”

That mentioned, the next-generation battery electrical car due by 2026 that Toyota has teased appears to be like prefer it goals for max wind-tunnel aerodynamics in a conventional sense—with a kammback profile, low floor clearance, and a roofline that follows an extended arc. That seems to be a wholly separate undertaking than the three-row electrical SUV because of be constructed within the U.S. beginning in 2025. 

Toyota Crown EV, from Toyota tech replace June 2023

With that each one a number of years sooner or later, Toyota launched an EV that seems to be on the best way quickly: a Toyota Crown EV that the automaker launched as a fun-to-drive EV created “to fulfill the varied wants of our clients.” Count on extra about this mannequin, together with potential U.S. availability, quickly.