Posted on 10/02/2022 10:00:21 AM PDT by FarCenter
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“For me, playing to win also means doing things differently. Doing things that others may question, but that we believe will put us in the winner’s circle the longest,” he said Wednesday during Toyota’s annual dealer meeting in Las Vegas, which, by the way, was called “Playing to Win.”
Toyoda, who described Toyota as a large department store, said the company’s goal “remains the same, pleasing the widest possible range of customers with the widest possible range of powertrains.” Those powertrains will include hybrids and plug-in hybrids like the Prius, hydrogen fuel cell vehicles like the Mirai and 15 all-electric battery models by 2025.
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“Just like the free autonomous cars that we are all supposed to be driving by now, EVs are just going to take longer to become mainstream than media would like us to believe,” Toyoda said in a recording of the remarks to dealers shown to reporters. “In the meantime, you have many options for customers.”
Toyoda also believes there will be “tremendous shortages” of lithium and battery grade nickel in the next five to 10 years, leading to production and supply chain problems.
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Since the Prius launched in 1997, Toyota says it has sold more than 20 million electrified vehicles worldwide. The company says those sales have avoided 160 million tons of CO2 emissions, which is the equivalent to the impact of 5.5 million all-electric battery vehicles.
“Toyota can produce eight 40-mile plug-in hybrids for every one 320-mile battery electric vehicle and save up to eight times the carbon emitted into the atmosphere,” according to prepared remarks for Toyoda provided to media.
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Are there any non-coal-driven power sources for these EVs?
This is why Toyota is the top automaker in the world....the listen to their customers, their dealers and their suppliers.
Toyota is seriously winning me over. The Morse code Easter egg on the Tundra and Sequoia really spoke to me...this is a company that wants to build ‘badass trucks’ and they are literally the ONLY one that seems to want to do that. Everyone else is looking to force people towards pie-in-the-sky BS and Toyota is trying to do things for their customers. My next vehicle will be a Toyota and hopefully they put that hybrid turbo 6 in a 4-Runner so I can have a baddass SUV that’s almost as quick as my V8 Pathfinder.
at last! an auto maker with some common sense who doesn’t spin with the ever changing eco winds
Toyota is not encumbered by the leftist UAW ....
Western auto makers will be forced to slow their headlong rush to switch to EVs. B/c of public preferences, charging waits that sour prospective buyers and supply issues.
Toyota total sales have been falling worldwide over the past few years, even as Tesla’s sales kept rising fast.
Toyota is playing the long game. They see what many of us see. The climate cultists are putting the cart about 20 miles ahead of the horse then expecting the horse to move the cart.
Silly cultists; reality doesn’t work that way!
The battery technology needed and energy infrastructure demands are both decades away from becoming real. One day this transition will happen but it can’t be rushed. It has to happen slowly and organically. Not pushed like a fat mouse through a pencil sized hole. In both scenarios you end up with a hot mess that needs to be cleaned up.
See post # 8
Toota’s Cars are probably the BEST of both worlds — THE HYBRID.
I’ve been driving a Toyota Prius since 2010 and never had a problem with it. Gives me 50 miles per gallon on average and takes only a fraction of the price to fuel compared to a pure ICE car.
Let me know when your convenience store clerk and burger flipper buys a Tesla.
Later.
RE:Toyota total sales have been falling worldwide over the past few years, even as Tesla’s sales kept rising fast.
Of course, with the help of government mandates left and right ( including newly passed laws from California and New York which FORCES car sellers to ONLY sell electric vehicles by 2035 OR ELSE... ).
But I’d like to see them compete head on via the free market without government using its powers to favor one over the other.
My cousin has had the same performance with his Prius. He has had to buy a refurbhshed battery for $1700...and then purchased battery replacement insurance foe $30-something/month.
I’ve risen in a couple of Prius (afraid of pluralizing that noun) and they all seem to be small and chintzy cracker boxes. I’m 6’2 and need a vehicle with some room and my wife does not like expensive cars nor chintzy cars.
RE: I’m 6’2 and need a vehicle with some room and my wife does not like expensive cars nor chintzy cars.
Toyota has hybrid Camrys and other larger vehicles as well.
And they are relatively affordable vs All Electric Vehicles.
1) Bullsnot. Most of that electricity was generated by burning coal and methane.
2) I couldn't possibly care less anyway. Anthropogenic 'climate change' is a lie.
Tesla stopped getting EV subsidies in the US coupla years ago, and they still control close to 70% of the US EV market.
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