Key highlights:

  • Toyota has no plans to launch an electric vehicle in India
  • It would wait for the charging infrastructure to develop before taking a call on launching such models
  • Viswanathan said electric vehicle technology is very simple and so, it's not very difficult to introduce such models

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Toyota has no plans to launch an electric vehicle in India and would wait for the charging infrastructure to develop before taking a call on launching such models, according to a senior official of Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM).

"We have no plans to go electric," vice chairman and whole-time director of TKM, Shekar Viswanathan told PTI over buzz around EVs (electric vehicles) in the domestic auto industry with the government's aggressive push towards e-mobility.

TKM is a joint venture between the Japanese auto major and Kirloskar Group.

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