Over the past few years, Mr. Toyoda said, he has tried to convey this point to industry stakeholders, including government officials—an effort he described as tiring at times.
Auto executives like Mr. Toyoda say the uptake on EVs could be uneven for some time, and that gas-powered models, along with hybrids and plug-in hybrids, will endure for many years to come.
“The coastal areas, the East and West Coast, that’s electrifying much quicker than the interior of the country,” said Jim Rowan, chief executive of Sweden’s Volvo Car AB. Mr. Rowan said plug-in hybrids serve the purpose of providing buyers with an option if they aren’t ready to go full electric and are important to warming them up to the technology.
Ryan Gremore, an Illinois-based dealer, who owns several brand franchises, said he gets a lot of customers inquiring about EVs, in part because of limited supplies.
That might give the impression of robust demand, but it is unclear how it will materialize when inventory levels at dealerships normalize, he added. “Is there interest in electric vehicles? Yes. Is it more than 10% to 15% of our customer base? No way,” Mr. Gremore said.
Hybrids should have the natural progression.
Instead they jumped right to evs..which are a long ways off from being practical..not to mention affordable.
Hybrids should have BEEN the natural progression.
Instead they jumped right to evs..which are a long ways off from being practical..not to mention affordable.
Its admirable to see a corporate leader to speak TRUTH to the public that goes against the stupid propaganda/government narrative.
The EV glow is fading. Except for glow from the fires.
The infrastructure to support the increased demand for electricity, to include flyover country, must exist before even perfectly designed EV could begin to seriously compete for market share.
The industry can’t speak out because the establishment owns them.
“how quickly car companies can transition”
The transition is completely impossible. It cannot be done.
Smart man. Toyota is ahead of its time by being behind the EV times. They have mastered the technology of the half a loaf hybrid with no range anxiety and they eventually will progress to non fossil fuel hydrogen with zero emissions, no range anxiety and a quick fueling stop. Even Elon has said Tesla will produce its first hydrogen Tesla in 2024 and that EVs will not be ruling the road come 2030.Other technologies will.
We are making a big mistake building an EV fueling infrastructure when that technology will be the old technology in the 2030s.
Electric cars are like the mercury filled CFL light bulbs.
A bad solution rushed through that won’t last.
LED lights are a much solution.
Hydrogen powered cars is where things will go. Electric cars will go away like CFL light bulbs
It was -37F here in Fairbanks this morning. I was driving and wondering how on earth these EV’s could possibly work for all us working folks in these temperatures. They just can’t. Never will. It is sheer insanity to think it is possible.
“Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda said he is among the auto industry’s silent majority in questioning whether electric vehicles should be pursued exclusively.”
He would be very smart to NEVER go to another Western country, as the Globalists, no doubt, will have him in their sites for a ‘Regime Change’ at Toyota, and get one of their WEF puppets running the company.
That new 2023 Hybrid Prius looks like a winner. 50+mpg, 190+ ponies and equally important it doesn’t look like a Prius.
Hybrids could actually make a great deal of sense from an efficiency standpoint. Diesel-electric motors move a lot of the freight across the country every day. Unfortunately, the enviro-whackos hate diesel for some reason.