Seminar on "Western Manufacturers Shifting from EV to HEV" by Dr. Toshio Fujimura, Representative of Touson Automotive Strategy Research Institute (formerly Toyota Motor Corporation), to be Held on Tuesday, May 19, 2026!!

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**Western Manufacturers Shifting from "EV Shift" to "HEV Shift"**

～Pathway to CO2 Reduction: Expanding HEV/PHEV and addressing existing vehicles through drop-in fuel introduction～

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[Seminar Details]

https://www.ssk21.co.jp/S0000103.php?spage=pt_26198

[Lecturer]

Toshio Fujimura, Representative of Touson Automotive Strategy Research Institute, Automotive and Environmental Technology Strategy Analyst

Visiting Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Aichi Institute of Technology

[Formerly Toyota Motor Corporation] Doctor of Engineering

[Date and Time]

Tuesday, May 19, 2026, 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM

[Participation Method]

■ On-site participation

SSK Seminar Room

Zymax Nishishimbashi Building 4F, 2-6-2 Nishishimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo

■ Live streaming (Zoom Webinar)

■ Archive distribution (viewable at your convenience for two weeks, unlimited times)

[Seminar Target Audience]

・Executives and officers of automotive-related companies

・Those formulating technology and management strategies at automotive-related companies

・Young engineers interested in automotive CO2 reduction

・Those concerned about the climate crisis

[Knowledge to be Gained from the Seminar]

・That CO2 reduction is an urgent and critical issue for achieving an eco-society, and the automotive and power sectors bear significant responsibility.

・The thinking behind CO2 standards or 강화 (strengthening) required to achieve the voluntary targets of the Paris Agreement and the even stricter targets of the UN Climate Action Summit.

・That new vehicle CO2 must be addressed by strengthening standards (regulations), and CO2 reduction for existing vehicles requires hydrocarbon-based carbon-neutral fuels.

・Considering technological maturity and user needs, electric vehicles (EVs) will be realistically split into HEV/PHEV as the practical solution, while pure EVs will polarize into ultra-compact LSEVs and luxury cars.

・How to construct a roadmap (ideal scenario) for achieving CO2 reduction targets using a backcasting method.

[Key Lecture Contents]

Amidst global warming and climate change having a devastating impact on human life and increasing threats, at the UN Climate Action Summit in September 2019, based on analysis results that the target of "limiting the average temperature increase to less than 2°C, with an effort target of 1.5°C" agreed in the Paris Agreement would not stop the chain of climate crisis, it was proposed to revise it to "1.5°C or less must be achieved" to each country. Most developed and emerging countries committed to "reducing CO2 by 48% compared to 2019 by 2030 and zero emissions by 2050" as presented in the IPCC's 6th report by a UN research institution in 2023, but major emitters such as China and India have not yet revised their targets.

In 2024, the average temperature since the industrial revolution momentarily rose by 1.6°C. It is self-evident that CO2 reduction is an urgent task without delay for realizing a sustainable society, and not only the automotive industry but all industries including energy and power need to transform to achieve environmental improvement and economic growth. Automobiles account for 18% of the total global emissions of 33 billion tons, but governments' responses through an EV shift can be said to be a biased foolish strategy that "misses the forest for the trees." CO2 reduction in automobiles targets not only new cars but also the entire fleet of existing vehicles, which are 20 times more numerous. Therefore, the hurdle of reducing CO2 by 48% in the short period of five years is much higher than achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. If CO2 is counted by LCA, the CO2 reduction effect of EVs can be lower than that of HEVs in some countries, and the grand cause that EV CO2 emissions are far less than HEVs, etc., has already collapsed.