[ad_1] Toyota Motor Corp. plans to maintain gas-powered vehicles as a key a part of its lineup, rejecting efforts by rivals to go absolutely electrical amid considerations over how shortly shoppers will embrace new applied sciences. Whereas the world’s largest automaker will introduce extra electrical automobiles within the coming years, it is going to additionally supply a spread of different choices, together with gasoline-electric hybrids, hydrogen- and conventional fossil fuel-powered fashions, in accordance with Chief Government Officer Akio Toyoda, who met with reporters Thursday. Battery-electric automobiles “are simply going to take longer than the media would love us to consider,”…