las vegas japanese auto giant toyota will have electric or electrified options on all its cars and that of its luxury division lexus by 2025 president akio toyoda said on mondayat the international consumer electronics show ces the company also announced highlevel partnerships with companies such as american tech giant amazon and ridehailing companies uber chinese didi chuxing for foray into the autonomous vehicles segment through a newelectric concept called the epalette the electric epalette can serve various commercial needs such as delivering packages pizzas and of course people the focus will be on electricconnected cars that increasingly get autonomoustoday toyota offers 37 electrified vehicle models in over 90 countries by the early twenty twenties we will have more than 10 batteryelectric vehicles available worldwide by 2025 every model in the toyota and lexus lineup will either be electric or have electrified options toyoda said that the company is working on new solutions and partnerships while looking at new mobility concepts as it faces stiff competition from nonauto companies or the tech giantstechnology is changing quickly in our industry and the race is on our competitors no longer just make cars companies like google apple and even facebook are what i think about at night said toyoda whose family controls the japanese companyhe said that his goal is to transition toyota from an automobile company to a mobility company and the possibilities of what we can build in my mind are endless we want the car to be a seamless extension of their phones and computers a kind of personal assistant on wheels able to anticipate your needs through predictive artificial intelligencehe said that a jv company of toyota and microsoft toyota connected has created a platform that leverages the power of big data generated from millions of connectedcar customers across the world we are moving from software to the platform its the platform that will be the backbone of mobility as a service for autonomy for car sharing and for any number of services that we want to make possiblethe writer is at ces at the invitation of nissan