With a New CEO, Toyota at an EV Crossroads Facebook Twitter Email WASHINGTON, D.C. — As Koji Sato prepares to take over as the next CEO of Toyota Motor Corporation, 54 advocacy organizations from around the world today called on the automaker to commit to phase out all internal combustion engine vehicles in coming years. The letter, whose signatories include Public Citizen, Center for Biological Diversity, Electric Vehicle Association, GreenLatinos, Greenpeace Japan, Sierra Club, and members of the Latin American Association for Sustainable Mobility, called on the automaker to shift to building solely EVs in the U.S. and Europe by 2030 and globally by 2035. “As incoming CEO, you have the opportunity to change course on decades of harm and deceit caused by Toyota and lead the industry toward its electric future,” the letter reads. “With no tailpipe emissions, electric vehicles are better for our health and essential to keeping our planet livable.” Under the current CEO Akio Toyoda, the company’s environmental strategy revolved around lobbying to delay electric vehicle (EV) adoption and fighting for weaker fuel efficiency standards set forth by the Trump administration.