Toyota plans to mass produce battery Hilux pickup truck by 2025, official says

BANGKOK : Japan’s Toyota plans to mass-construct a battery electrical Hilux pickup truck by the tip of 2025, the president of its Thailand unit talked about on Tuesday.

The announcement comes beautiful a few days after the Thai authorities talked about that the rival Eastern automaker Isuzu Motors talked about it might possibly perchance perchance presumably make its battery D-MAX pickup in Thailand by 2025.

Thailand is a regional automaking hub, with pickup trucks among the many vehicles produced for domestic sale and export.

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the Bangkok World Motor Showcase, Toyota Thailand’s Noriaki Yamashita talked about the Hilux will be ready by the tip of subsequent 365 days. He did no longer specify where the vehicle might well perchance presumably be produced.

In Thailand, Toyota expects to sell 250,000 vehicles this 365 days, Yamashita talked about.

Electric vehicles (EV) adoption has been gaining momentum in Thailand, led by Chinese EV brands tackle BYD, advise-owned Changan Car and Gargantuan Wall Motors, which all collectively have poured $1.44 billion into recent products and services into Southeast Asia’s 2d-biggest economic system.

Thailand has been a regional auto assembly and export hub and has been dominated by Eastern brands tackle Nissan Motors and Honda Motors.

Toyota, the Thai market chief accounting for a third of gross sales, will reveal a dozen battery Hilux pickup trucks to the tourist seaside metropolis of Pattaya in eastern Thailand for trials as public transportation subsequent month, Yamashita talked about.

(This memoir has been corrected to remark that Hilux might well perchance presumably be ready subsequent 365 days, and no longer this 365 days, in paragraph 4, and changes the name of the vehicle to Hilux, no longer D-MAX, in paragraph 8)