Toyota Kirloskar Motor focusing on hybrid vehicles

Toyota Kirloskar Motor will bring electric vehicles in India in future, but at the moment it is focussing on hybrid vehicles keeping in mind the objective of meeting holistic carbon reduction, company Vice Chairman Vikram Kirloskar said.

The company, which on November 25, 2022 unveiled Innova Hycross - the new hybrid version of its popular multi-purpose vehicle Innova - also expects full capacity utilisation at its two manufacturing units in Bengaluru by the middle of next year. "I think the country's objective is to reduce carbon (emission). You have to look at it holistically and (on a) scientific basis and that's what we are doing," he told PTI here, when asked about Toyota Kirloskar Motor's strategy of focussing on hybrids at a time when electric vehicles (EVs) have stad gaining traction in India. Kirloskar argued that considering the current low level of renewable energy sources in India, EVs do not necessarily serve the purpose of reducing carbon emissions.