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 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.
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.
Later.
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.
The gasoline internal combustion engine with fuel injection, O2 sensors, catalytic converters, tighter tolerance, coil over plug, etc, all computer controlled has become pretty much zero emission output.
Us old people remember when half the gasoline vehicles running down the road were pouring out black or blue smoke. That happened when they were getting up near 100k in mileage. When the rings and/or valves guides were bad, when the choke was bad or not adjusted correctly.
My 2001 F150 doesn’t smoke, has close to as much power as it ever did, has 286k miles on it and the 5.4 liter gets 2-3 times the gas mileage of the old carburetor engines of similar size.
Why is that not good enough?
Because they don’t want us to be able to drive.
Toyota needs to bring back the little dirt cheap stripped down trucks they had back in the 80s.
and if you live in a corrupt state (with extra corrupt utility “regulation”) like Californication,
you’ll pay a royal fortune to charge your E-car
plus, the power can go out at any time — potentially leaving you stranded
I like the way this guy thinks - no wonder he’s been so successful.
While Toyota is still going to work on the Hydrogen angle,
it is increasing its presence in the electric market
significantly in coming years.
The thing that has stopped the hydrogen market from taking
off, is the lack of hydrogen service stations. Frankly, I’m
very surprised that Toyota or a group have not expanded on
the hydrogen stations.
Electric hasn’t been the rage all that long, but there are
networks cropping up all over.
Who is going to buy a car running off hydrogen, if you can only refill it at very few places even in Los Angeles?