Toyota Indonesia signs CATL battery deal as EVs gather pace

Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indonesia (TMMIN) has formed a concern with Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd (CATL) for electrical conveyance (EV) artillery manufacturing successful Indonesia.

As portion of the collaboration, TMMIN is committing Rp1.3tn ($75.8m) to enactment Indonesia’s EV ecosystem, including improvement of the artillery proviso concatenation from earthy materials done to finished products.

The artillery task is linked to what the institution calls its “Best successful Town” approach, nether which it aims to fortify home concern capableness successful ways that align with authorities priorities for nationalist development.

TMMIN said the inaugural is expected to assistance velocity up the modulation towards c neutrality done a multi-pathway strategy.

That model covers hybrid electrical vehicles, plug-in hybrid electrical vehicles, artillery electrical vehicles, substance compartment electrical vehicles, and flexible substance vehicles utilizing bioethanol blends, reflecting differing mobility needs successful the Indonesian market.

The institution said the improvement volition besides presumption TMMIN arsenic the archetypal Toyota subsidiary successful South East Asia to export batteries to overseas markets, with exports owed to commencement successful the 2nd fractional of 2026.

Those exports are acceptable to see not lone batteries utilized successful HEV models, but besides artillery components, arsenic Indonesia seeks to deepen its relation successful the planetary proviso concatenation for conveyance electrification.

TMMIN president manager Nandi Julyanto said: “Currently, TMMIN has a artillery battalion accumulation enactment astatine its Karawang works to nutrient batteries for the Toyota Kijang Innova Zenix HEV, Veloz HEV, and Yaris Cross HEV. Through a strategical collaboration with CATL successful Indonesia, we are striving to summation the accumulation capableness of artillery assy packs to the wide manufacturing of artillery cells and modules.

“The artillery compartment and module components that are presently imported volition aboriginal beryllium produced by Indonesian quality resources. This concern volition not lone summation concern but besides enactment Toyota's multipathway inaugural towards c neutrality by strengthening the section proviso chain.”

Citing figures from GAIKINDO, the Indonesian Automotive Industry Association, TMMIN said that income of electrified vehicles successful Indonesia reached 177,367 units successful 2025, rising 71% from 103,452 units successful the erstwhile year.

Production of electrified vehicles totalled 127,420 units during the aforesaid period.

Of that amount, 99,162 units were directed to the home market, portion section manufacturing accounted for astir 55% of wide sales.

Hybrid electrical vehicles were the largest contributor, with 97,462 units produced, representing astir 76.5% of Indonesia’s full electrified conveyance output successful 2025.