After deeming it "essential" to have a battery factory in Spain, Griffiths also said it would help if batteries were assembled close to the Martorell plant near Barcelona.
"The Spanish government cannot miss the train of electrification," Griffiths said.
Automakers say they are doing their best to handle the situation, but it still harms them when they are struggling to recover from the Covid-fuelled plunge in sales last year.
Beyond autonomous driving the concept of vertical mobility could be a next step to take our mobility approach into the future, especially in the technically affine Chinese market.
"Therefore we are investigating potential concepts and partners in a feasibility study to identify the possibility to industrialize this approach."
The delivery of its D line-up of electric vehicles to begin as soon as March in Europe and China, and from the middle of the year in the United States.
This follows the launch of the new ID.4 electric crossover SUV in September, just as the company’s ID.3 began deliveries.
Toyota said on Thursday its group-wide global sales fell 11.3% to 9.528 million vehicles in 2020.
Automakers have suffered as coronavirus lockdowns have stopped people from visiting car showrooms and forced manufacturing plants to reduce or halt production.
Last year Germany's highest court for civil disputes ruled Volkswagen had to pay compensation to owners of vehicles with rigged diesel engines in Germany.
The shortage has affected Volkswagen, Ford Motor Co, Subaru Corp, Toyota Motor Corp, Nissan Motor Co Ltd, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and other car makers.
Volkswagen is reducing the combustion-engined cars it offers and retooling more factories to build electric vehicles in an effort to keep up with electric carmaker Tesla.
The automaker asked the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to declare the noncompliance issue inconsequential to safety.
Tesla said it corrected the issue in production in September and that more than 75% percent of the affected US vehicles have accepted the firmware update released in September.