This is complete bullocks.
China has been busy serving their own market until very recently, it’s only this year China has begun exports for real, and taxes in EU have been modest until now.

Up until now Toyota has been busy with hydrogen, which seems to be going nowhere.
When they figured they had to do something with batteries, they bet on hybrids probably due to their many years experience selling expensive hybrids with 3.5 kWh batteries.

Now plugin hybrids are already losing favor, here the sales of hybrids are just a couple percent for September.

There is no other brand comparable to Toyota that is as far behind as Toyota, except maybe other Japanese brands, which aren’t doing well on EV either.

EU has lots of attractive EV brands, VW also with Audi, Skoda and Cupra. Mercedes, BMW, Renault, Volvo, Ford.
Less attractive but cheap are Dacia (Renault), Stelantis with FIAT, Peugeot, Citroen and Opel and MINI Cooper (BMW).

It’s absolutely ridiculous to claim we don’t have competition in EU because of import taxes, when those taxes have been low, and are only increased now due to Chinese subsidizing development and production in China.

One can only hope interest rates will have dropped by then, though. The ridiculous price of EVs and high interest rates isnt helping buyers out at all.