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The Japanese government opposes the review of the suspension of the sale of gasoline cars in the mid-1930s
“The collapse of the old industry business model … Is it because politicians know about it?”
The president of Nippon Steel also said: “Twenty years of research and development … uncomfortable as a sole proprietorship.”
Toyota Akio, president of the Japan Automotive Industry Association (Toyota Motors), criticized the Japanese government’s policy to stop selling gasoline vehicles in an online press conference on the 17th.
Toyota Chairman Akio Toyota Motor Corp. has exceptionally criticized the government, saying, “If so, Japan will not be able to make cars” for Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s policy of implementing a carbon-free society in 2050.
According to the Mainichi newspaper on the 18th, the president of Toyota, as president of the Japan Automotive Industry Association, responded to an online interview by a Japanese journalist on the 17th, in response to the Japanese government’s promotion of a plan. to stop the sale of gasoline vehicles in mid-2030. “The model collapses,” he expressed concern.
The Japanese government plans to stop selling pure fossil fuel vehicles in mid-2030 to reduce real carbon dioxide emissions to zero by 2050. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has announced that it will stop selling gasoline and diesel vehicles by 2030, about five years before.
The Toyota president said that, taking France, which has a high share of nuclear power generation and a low share of thermal power generation, “it is difficult to achieve (zero carbon dioxide emissions) without a revolution in national energy policy. “. . Japan, which has a high proportion of thermal power generation, opposes the rapid transition of the structure of the automobile market to electric vehicles, saying that green vehicles alone do not lead to a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions. carbon.
He cited the fact that electric cars emit a lot of carbon dioxide in the manufacturing process and criticized: “Do politicians understand (this fact) and say ‘I’m going to get rid of gasoline cars’?” Also, he said about light cars with a high proportion of gasoline cars, “light cars are a complete lifesaver in the provinces” and “I hope that Japan will maintain Japan’s strengths so that the achievements that have accumulated so far are not in vain”. Most of the light cars sold in Japan are gasoline cars due to economic problems. Daihatsu, a subsidiary of Toyota and Japan’s largest light car maker, all of its flagship models are gasoline cars.
Eiji Hashimoto, President of the Japan Iron and Steel Federation (President of the Japan Iron and Steel Federation), said at a regular press conference on the same day: “It only takes 10 or 20 years for R&D to reach the zero carbon emissions target. ” Criticized.
According to the National Institute for Environmental Research of Japan, in 2018 Japan emitted a total of 1.24 billion tons of greenhouse gases. Among them, the power generation sector had the highest proportion of emissions with 40.1%, followed by the industrial sector (25.0%) and the transportation sector (17.8%). Among the industrial sectors, emissions from the steel industry accounted for 47.6%, which represents half of the total. Globally, the steel industry’s share of greenhouse gas emissions is less than 30%, but Japan, which has a high share of the manufacturing industry, has particularly high emissions from the steel industry. That is why cooperation between the steel and automobile industries is essential for the transition to a carbon-free society.
Toyota and Nippon Steel are evaluated as the companies with the greatest power of expression before the government, like the president of production Keidanren, who is called the “Prime Minister of the Japanese Business World. For this reason, it is quite unusual for the CEOs of the two companies to express concern about government policy, the Mainichi newspaper diagnosed.
Tokyo = correspondent Jeong Young-hyo [email protected]
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