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Why Toyota Is Building Its Carbon-Neutral Future Around India
A look inside the engineering logic driving the world’s largest carmaker as it pursues multiple routes to decarbonisation, and quietly turns India into its most valuable laboratories for the future of mobility.
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Even as global rivals chase the EV journey, Toyota Motor Corporation is on a different path: One where carbon is the only enemy, software becomes the new engine, and India plays an important role as a test bed for many of the proposed strategies.
“The enemy is carbon, not the engine, not the battery, not the technology.” This line repeated, emphasised, and returned throughout the lecture that Autocar Professional attended on the sidelines of Japan Mobility Show 2025. In an unusually candid and technically rich session, five of Toyota’s most influential engineering leaders detailed how they see the next ...
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