Toyota Motor revealed its new developments in the automotive technology as it showcased new engine technologies for different vehicle types, including hybrid vehicles and bi-fuel vehicles. It comes as the auto giant plans to meet new emissions standards. The project is being pursued with peers like Subaru and Mazda Motor.

Toyota, the world’s largest automaker by volume, unveiled some of its works-in-progress – a 1.5-liter and a 2.0-liter engine which are much smaller in volume and height compared with those seen in current vehicles. The three companies focused their commitment on deepening the synergies with motors, batteries and other electric drive devices. Toyota currently owns about twenty percent of Subaru and has an equity stake of about five percent in Mazda.

The partnership is geared towards ensuring that vehicles with internal combustion engines can be powered by green energy like e-fuels and biofuels. Moreover, the more compact engines are expected to play a big role in revolutionising the car design by way of enabling low hood.

Although Toyota has long been considered a slow player in the EV space, an overall slowdown in the segment means that there is greater demand for the petrol-electric hybrids that the company specialises in. The new 1.5-liter engine is expected to be 10% lighter in weight as compared to the current models familiar in compact car such as Yaris. Similarly, the new 2.0-liter turbo engine will pose the same degree of improvement.

Hiroki Nakajima- Toyota’s Chief Technological Officer, declined to give the period within which the new models shall have been produced with the new engines. However, emission standards for automobiles are set to become more stringent, especially in regions such as the European Union, which has set its sights on enacting consensus emissions rules dubbed “Euro 7” for automobiles and pick up trucks by the year 2030 and a blackout on sales of fresh vehicles and pick up trucks with CO2 emissions capability past 2035.

Nonetheless, EVs remain a very significant focus in the contemporary automotive industry and yet Toyota has remained steadfast to its implementation of a “many-pronged” strategy to carbon neutrality, and it sells cars with a wide variety of powertrains.