Posted on 12/22/2022 6:24:49 AM PST by Red Badger
While electric vehicles may seem to be all the rage in the automotive space, Toyota Motor Corporation president Akio Toyoda is pumping the brakes on the idea of an all-in approach.
"People involved in the auto industry are largely a silent majority," Toyoda told reporters during a trip to Thailand, according to the Wall Street Journal. "That silent majority is wondering whether EVs are really OK to have as a single option. But they think it's the trend so they can't speak out loudly."
"Because the right answer is still unclear, we shouldn't limit ourselves to just one option," he said, according to the outlet — during the past few years, he said, he has attempted to communicate this idea to stakeholders in the automotive space, including government figures, but he indicated that his effort had been tiring at points.
"Is there interest in electric vehicles? Yes. Is it more than 10% to 15% of our customer base? No way," said Ryan Gremore, a dealer based in Illinois who owns a number of brand franchises, according to the outlet.
According to the Journal, Toyoda said that other options like hydrogen-powered vehicles were starting to receive a better reception from government leaders, media figures, and people in the vehicle industry.
The left has been fanatically pushing electric vehicles as it peddles climate change alarmism.
But electric vehicles remain impractical in many cases — for instance, they require significant time to recharge, which could be an inconvenience when recharging in the middle of a long trip. They are also less affordable to purchase than traditional gas-powered vehicles.
Ford is what too?
be the first big auto marker to go bankrupt building EVs
Agree. Toyota is putting a small effort into pure EVs but focusing more on ICE/EV hybrids which I believe is the rational way to go if one must choose any kind of EV. Personally I think that the future cost of battery raw materials will make EVs undesirable for us regular folks.
Maybe they will find ‘di-lithium crystals’ on the moon that are small enough to fit in passenger cars ...
>No ICE vehicles will get registrations.
Then they will drive them unregistered.
Too late.Done deal. China will flood the market with low cost EV’s in 2 years.
We have 2 Toyota cars. My hubby's Camry is 20 years old and still reliable. My Rav4 is 12 years old and hubby will begin driving it after we get a new Rav4. All that has ever been required with these 2 cars is normal maintenance. Very reliable vehicles.
When these vehicles first appeared, it became quite obvious that they did not perform well, or at all, in cold weather. But, it's the new thing--- it's "green"; so, no one looks at the actual facts very closely.
And, don't even get me started on the children in Africa digging up the toxic material needed for all of our EVs and phones.
The cost for infrastructure is more than most people can imagine. Wind and solar are inherently unreliable. As the EU how it's doing; also as TX how their solar did last Winter. Windmills are a joke. Combined, solar and wind are >10% of the power grid. A real non-starter.
I'll keep my 2019 Jeep Grand Cherokee Supercharged HEMI V8 'Trackhawk', thankyouverymuch, EV morons.
Only if 90% of people driving give up their gas vehicles and stop driving completely.
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