David Fickling, Columnist

Toyota's Passage to India

Maruti Suzuki has almost half the country's auto market to itself, but cleaner energy vehicles are urgently required.

October 13, 2016 at 4:27 AM UTC

David Fickling is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering climate change and energy. Previously, he worked for Bloomberg News, the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times.

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Toyota has a problem with India.

The world's biggest carmaker is a bit player in a country that's forecast to become the third-biggest auto market by 2020. Honda, Hyundai, and Mahindra & Mahindra each take a share of unit sales bigger than Toyota's 4.6 percent. In the compact car segment that dominates the local market, its position is even worse: