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Toyota Gets Ready to Sell Only Zero-Emission Cars in Europe
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Elon Musk’s all-electric-or-bust argument also has won over investors, with Tesla Inc. overtaking Toyota as the world’s most valuable automaker last year and not looking back.</p>\n<p>“We are not in any way defensive about or reluctant followers,” Matthew Harrison, Toyota Europe’s chief executive officer, said in an interview. “We’ll concentrate on our being in good faith, but we need the same sort of conviction and effort and progress also from an infrastructure and renewable-energy capacity perspective.”</p>\n<p>Other automakers have already outlined goals similar to Toyota’s. 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Toyota’s sales have surged, and its fleet’s average CO2 emissions are the lowest among major conventional carmakers.\n\nBut for all Toyota’s success with hybrids, it’s become increasingly difficult for the company to contend that consumers in parts of Europe aren’t yet ready to make the jump to cars powered entirely by battery.Over 800,000 such EVs were registered in the region this year through September, up more than 90% from a year ago. Elon Musk’s all-electric-or-bust argument also has won over investors, with Tesla Inc. overtaking Toyota as the world’s most valuable automaker last year and not looking back.\n“We are not in any way defensive about or reluctant followers,” Matthew Harrison, Toyota Europe’s chief executive officer, said in an interview. “We’ll concentrate on our being in good faith, but we need the same sort of conviction and effort and progress also from an infrastructure and renewable-energy capacity perspective.”\nOther automakers have already outlined goals similar to Toyota’s. 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