Posted on 10/15/2015 2:34:20 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Toyota, under ambitious environmental targets, is aiming to sell hardly any regular gasoline vehicles by 2050, only hybrids and fuel cells, to radically reduce emissions.
The automaker promised to involve governments, affiliated companies and other "stakeholders" in its push to reduce average emissions from Toyota cars by 90 percent by about 2050, compared with 2010 levels.
Electric cars weren't part of their vision, outlined by top Toyota Motor Corp. officials at a Tokyo museum on Wednesday, striking a contrast with rivals such as Nissan Motor Co., which has banked on that zero-emissions technology.
Toyota's commitments come at a time when the auto industry has been shaken by a scandal at Germany's Volkswagen AG, in which it admitted it cheated on diesel emissions tests covering millions of cars.
Toyota projected its annual sales of fuel cell vehicles will reach more than 30,000 by about 2020, which is 10 times its projected figure for 2017.
Fuel cells run on hydrogen and are zero-emissions. Toyota's Mirai fuel cell went on sale late last year. Toyota has received 1,500 orders for the Mirai in Japan, and it just went on sale in the U.S. and Europe.
Annual sales of hybrid vehicles will reach 1.5 million and by 2020 Toyota would have sold 15 million hybrids, nearly twice what it has sold so far around the world, it said.
Hybrids switch back and forth between a gasoline engine and an electric motor to deliver an efficient ride.
The Toyota Prius, which went on sale in 1997, is the top-selling hybrid, with about 4 million sold globally so far. Toyota is promising to develop a hybrid version in every category, including usually gas-guzzling sport-utility vehicles, as well as luxury models.
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Of course, powerful interests in both the timber and petroleum industries put the kibosch on Ford's dreams.
Now the same is happening to petroleum. It is being demonized and gradually displaced.
I paid less than 500 bucks. The car’s nearly 20 years old. Luckily I didn’t need any body work. The paint job won’t last forever but the car is good for another 200,000 miles. I’ve made arrangements to be buried in it, killing two birds with one stone so to speak;-{)
I would like a bright paint job with a stripe down the middle.
But I don't want to throw good money away.
Two things liberals never consider when buying an electric vehicle hybrid one is the number of certified firefighters that can extract them in an accident. our 400 man firefighter department only has 25. The second thing liberals do not consider is how much their insurance goes up.. In addition after a few years battery replacement will cost more than the cars are worth.
Exactly. Then consider power losses across transmission lines too.
Not to mention neighborhood power distribution is not set up for charging cars at home overnite. The transformers will never have low load time and cool down at night, they will overheat/fry and wear out fast.
Assuming a 50% efficiency for a fuel cell battery (middle of the road design) times the 90% efficiency of a modern electric motor driveline and inverter combination, and you end up with a 45% efficient propulsion system. To put that into perspective, gas engines rarely exceed 25% energy conversion efficiency, and diesels can reach 40% but those are banned by the EPA due to NOx emissions.
The percentages noted are amount of energy per pound of fuel converted to useful torque/horsepower at the drive wheels. This wouln’t take into account frictional/parasitic/aerodynamic losses associated with a complete vehicle.
Maaco does pretty decent work, although it’s a franchise and they vary from one to another.
Most use a crew of illegals to do the prep grunt work (sanding and masking), which is how they keep the cost down.
I had a Saturn repainted five years ago (got in a wreck and replaced half the body - plastic panels are removable) was surprised at the quality of the job.
Good to know...thx!
Toyota quits the car business?
HA!!
Like it!!
Absolute nonsense. Toyota execs should cut down on the ganji they are smoking.
For extreme mileage at very low cost, a homebuilt, ultra-light, 1,200-1,500 pound, 4-cylinder, gasoline powered roadster might be one way to go for the time being. Technical inclination required and not a very comfortable way to fly, but fun, yes.
They do a decent job. I’ve done a few cars with them. Just mask most of it yourself.
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