Archives for January 2023

As predicted by Dailykanban as early as May last year, Toyota Group is world’s largest automaker for the year 2022, and it is a repeat succeeder. Toyota topped the leaderboard in 2021. Toyota was world’s largest in sales in 2020.  Toyota was edged-out by formerly vibrant Volkswagen in 2019 by only 250,000 units. Consistency and continuity, that’s Toyota. Despite COVID, chip shortages, and shooting wars, Toyota Group sold 10,483,024 units around the world in 2022, coming in only a smidgen below the sales in the prior year.

Also consistently and continuously, many alleged auto experts have been forecasting Toyota’s impending doom for as long as Toyota led the industry, simply because it hasn’t hopped on the battery-driven bandwagon. Volkswagen has, and it ended the year 2.2 million units behind Toyota. Volkswagen also ended the year with a new CEO, because the old one, a declared friend of batteries, and a fan of Tesla’s Elon Musk, was fired.

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