Toyota Didn't Get the Memo On Electric Cars, Is Sticking To Its Hybrid Strategy

Moto News Today ^ | 09/30/2022

[TheElectionWasStolen]

I’m still waiting for the punchline

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

It seems like that Toyota still doesn’t get it: people want electric cars, not hybrids.

I will have to buy some more of their stock. They probably will be the last motor company left standing.

[Wilhelm Tell]

How about, I liked my electric car until the extension cord ran out?

[wjcsux]

Toyota knows that EV’s are a dead end they don’t want to waste the money.

[Celtic Conservative]

They may be the ones in the catbird seat when this all shakes out.

CC

[Lockbox]

Well, how many Charging stations will be built to handle all the new EV’s? While people wait hours to charge on a long trip, Toyota owners will be resting by the pool...... While the brownout continues, Toyota owners will be at work arranging their corner office......While EV’s owners are pleading with the wife to just hold off labor another 20 minutes so the EV has the range to get to the hospital, Toyota owners are making a deposit of their baby’s college fund.....

Somedays it’s better to go against the grain and slowly adopt new technology...

[scott7278]

They’re actually approaching it as a business, instead of some feel-good nonsense.

[drSteve78]

Somedays it’s better to go against the grain and slowly adopt new technology...

Sheeple, lemmings, betamax……

[plain talk]

Sounds like a reasonable business approach until a real direction gains momentum.

I have had Toyota gasoline powered autos and have been pleased. Low maintenance.

[aquila48]

If you want great mpg and no range anxiety, plug in hybrids is the way to go.

[Drago]

I like Toyota’s plug-in hybrid strategy...short-range/short trip (40 miles or so) EV capability plus good old gasoline for those trips to Vegas! (RAV4 Prime & Prius Prime so far).

[rktman]

Or, or, Toyota outsells the other fookin’ idjit auto makers by a mile. (Your opinion may vary.) 😁👍

[43north]

If you aren’t going to use a vehicle with an internal combustion engine then hybrids are the way to go. Diesel-Electric locomotives case in point. Toyota is being much smarter than GM, Ford, Chrysler, and a host of others.

[FreeperCell]

Good one!

[redcatcherb412]

GM for some reason is going the opposite way. The Chevy Volt hybrid is a winner at 40 mile ev range and 340 mile ice range
Now it’s the all EV Chevy bolt. Just killing what was the real winner.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

It seems like that Toyota still doesn’t get it: people want electric cars, not hybrids.

Let's be specific - left-wing politicians and the toads who vote for them are the "people who want electric cars". The rest of us are perfectly happy with the internal combustion engine, which gives us much more mobility and freedom than any electric car currently can.

[Captainpaintball]

Bias, anyone? I was going to say “what millennial fag wrote this?” but it appears they refused to put their name in the byline.

[CFW]

“It seems like that Toyota still doesn’t get it: people want electric cars, not hybrids.”

Actually, it is the urban people who have a reason to have a garaged vehicle that they drive once or twice a month that want electric cars. Those people along with the climate change cultists.

The rest of us want a vehicle we can depend on to get us to work and back and to errands each day without worrying if we can get that one parking spot that has the charging station (which is in service on some days, but can’t be depended upon). And, we want the car we can pile the family in and drive 300 or 400 miles to visit family for a few days without having to stop every couple of hours to find a place to charge.

EVs are still unreliable. I appreciate Toyota’s commitment to their customers rather than selling out to the climate change cultist and the authoritarian government.

[kiryandil]

The anonymous coward that wrote this needs to be teed up as a speedbag.