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bles this, where Toyota is not just saying something on its own but rather is creating
a group of peers in the process who are all pointed at the same goal.
1969 Joined Toyota Motor Corporation after graduation from Nagoya University
in Applied physics
1996 Chief engineer of Vehicle Development Center 2 which developed the Prius
1998 Board of Directors
2000 Chief officer of Vehicle Development Center 2
2001 Managing director and chief officer of the Overseas Customer Service
Operations Center
2003 Senior managing director and chief officer of the Vehicle Engineering
Group
2004 Chief officer of the Production Control & Logistics Group
2005 Executive vice president
2012 Vice chairman of the board of directors
2013 Chairman
The Impact of Climate Change
Komiyama Please explain for us the three Zero CO 2 challenges and three Plus
challenges you tout in Environmental Challenge 2050.
Uchiyamada The Zero challenges begin with achieving zero CO 2 emissions for
new cards. To be precise, it calls for a 90% reduction of CO 2 emissions by 2050
compared to 2010. The next one sets the goal of reducing to zero the CO 2 emissions
throughout a vehicle’s lifecycle from production to disposal. The third challenge
will have a particularly big impact for us and that is to reduce to zero the CO 2 emissions from vehicle manufacturing. This is all an attempt to manufacture vehicles
with zero CO 2 emissions, and bring them close to zero when driving as well.
Takeshi Uchiyamada, Chairman, Board of Directors, Toyota Motor Corporation
Interview
bles this, where Toyota is not just saying something on its own but rather is creating
a group of peers in the process who are all pointed at the same goal.
1969 Joined Toyota Motor Corporation after graduation from Nagoya University
in Applied physics
1996 Chief engineer of Vehicle Development Center 2 which developed the Prius
1998 Board of Directors
2000 Chief officer of Vehicle Development Center 2
2001 Managing director and chief officer of the Overseas Customer Service
Operations Center
2003 Senior managing director and chief officer of the Vehicle Engineering
Group
2004 Chief officer of the Production Control & Logistics Group
2005 Executive vice president
2012 Vice chairman of the board of directors
2013 Chairman
The Impact of Climate Change
Komiyama Please explain for us the three Zero CO 2 challenges and three Plus
challenges you tout in Environmental Challenge 2050.
Uchiyamada The Zero challenges begin with achieving zero CO 2 emissions for
new cards. To be precise, it calls for a 90% reduction of CO 2 emissions by 2050
compared to 2010. The next one sets the goal of reducing to zero the CO 2 emissions
throughout a vehicle’s lifecycle from production to disposal. The third challenge
will have a particularly big impact for us and that is to reduce to zero the CO 2 emissions from vehicle manufacturing. This is all an attempt to manufacture vehicles
with zero CO 2 emissions, and bring them close to zero when driving as well.
Takeshi Uchiyamada, Chairman, Board of Directors, Toyota Motor Corporation
Interview