New Toyota CEO, with eye on Tesla, plots next-gen EV platform push

Toyota Koji Sato 2023 — A new leadership team under incoming CEO Koji Sato is working on a wholly reengineered, next-generation platform dedicated to battery electric vehicles arriving in 2026. (Kiyoshi Ota\/Bloomberg)

February 28, 2023 12:48 PM

TOKYO — When engineers at Toyota recently conducted a teardown study of the Tesla Model Y, it did more than expose key technological secrets of the popular American-made, full-electric crossover.

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