Today, March 10, the Japanese news outlet Yomiuri Shimbun, citing the press service of Mitsubishi Motors, reported that the Japanese automotive giant announced mid-term and long-term plans for the development of its business, with particular emphasis on the further growth and development of vehicles based on electric propulsion. installations. For example, a manufacturer has told investors and shareholders that it wants to introduce sixteen new car models to the world over the next five years, nine of which will be all-electric. In addition, the company’s management is focusing on the carbon-neutral status of production, which must be achieved in the near future.
In addition, the company said that by 2030 Mitsubishi Motors will transfer more than 50% of its fleet to electric power plants – this means that by the end of the decade, the Japanese giant, which has always been famous for its internal combustion engines, will transfer half of its production capacity to ” rails” of electric cars. Moreover, in the long term, Mitsubishi Motors plans to completely abandon cars with internal combustion engines – the brand wants to switch to 100% electric vehicles by 2035. This is a very surprising statement, since earlier Mitsubishi Motors management was very reluctant to talk about abandoning the internal combustion engine.
Including electric vehicles, Mitsubishi Motors plans to increase its annual car sales to 1.1 million vehicles. To do this, the company also plans to enter the European market, where electric cars are no longer something of a surprise. Unfortunately, the manufacturer did not provide any information about the electric cars themselves – sixteen new vehicles over five years is quite an ambitious task, especially for a brand that, to put it mildly, is lagging behind in the electric car market.