Posted on 05/05/2023 9:26:54 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Seeking Alpha is Seeking Acceptance. Toyota is just being smart. Governments are not the engines of innovation. Quite the opposite. They are engines of corruption and all they can do is make rules and accept bribes to not enforce them. Ultimately there will be tea parties and guillotines.
“EV’s are not sustainable.”
They are if our rulers make everyone but themselves ride buses.
“It would be so much fun to watch the future Comedy Channel viewers as they laugh and laugh at AlGore and his minions “The Earth has a fever”
No. They will blame Trump and the Russians.
Being progressive means never having to say you’re sorry.
Toyota: The only sane one in the whole bunch....whadda fiasco.
Ya’ think? 😜
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Maybe they’re not meant to be, you may not be traveling much with dense, walkable, multi-family fake towns with cell-block style apartments (think Warsaw 1962), bus and trains with stamped booklets (or apps) that show your social(ism) credit balance.
I salute the top dog at Toyota - Captain Obvious.
Electric vehicles will soon be forever regarded as the world’s most foolhardy undertaking.
World history will have an entire volume on this titled:
“What Were They Thinking?”
Electric vehicles - Several Hours to Charge, Weeks to Extinguish Once They Spontaneously Catch on Fire Without Warning.
In February 2022, The 656-foot ship, “Felicity Ace,” sank in the Atlantic Ocean while carrying 4,000 brand new luxury vehicles, including Porsches, Volkswagens, Lamborghinis, Bentleys and Audis, sailing from Emden, Germany to Davisville, Rhode Island.
A fire started aboard the ship and was caused by an electric vehicle. The fire could not be extinguished.
The entire crew abandoned ship and the fire eventually burned through the steel hull sending the ship to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. $400 million dollars worth of brand new cars and the massive ship were lost forever due to the runaway fire.
The worldwide push for electric vehicles proves there is no intelligent life on planet Earth.
LOL>..Fire doesn’t make steel melt. Rosie said so.
We will see more headlines like this.
ICEs will be made and sold in free states and the communists will be left will the failed EVs.
“Almost everybody who wants a Toyota wants an ICE or Hybrid version. “
We have Toyotas, as do our friends. Would never consider ICE or hybrid.
“Carbon II: Toyota pioneered hybrid technology which is one of the best ways to reduce carbon. As TMNA EVP Chris Reynolds said at our Fly-in, “Toyota is the O.G. of carbon reduction.” As for BEVs, we have them — and more are coming. They are a critical part of the drive to reduce carbon.
But given the scarcity of the minerals to make batteries, it’s important to optimize them for carbon reduction.
So, let’s do a little thought experiment.
Imagine a wheelbarrow with 500 pounds of lithium, cobalt, nickel, manganese, and graphite.
All these minerals would be needed to make the batteries for a single 100 kWh BEV battery. Let’s say that someone was going to buy a gas-powered vehicle, but instead bought a BEV to help the environment. Well, they would reduce the amount of carbon going into the air by about 3.7 tons annually.
But what if we used that same amount of materials to make PHEVs? We could make six of them, and by displacing six gas-powered vehicles, about 20 tons of carbon emissions would be avoided.
Better yet, we could use that 500 pounds of minerals to make 90 hybrids, which would eliminate 138 tons of emissions by displacing 90 gas-powered vehicles. That’s 37 times as much carbon reduction than putting all those minerals in one BEV. “
I work for Toyota… here was part of an internal memo from a week ago. Its not about saving the planet.
Mighty profound thought for a Saturday morning. Happy truth day, thank you.
We don’t have the power infrastructure to power them all, windmills and solar won’t do it either. They do make fine paper weights on the other hand, especially on those long trips.
You’re good with words. Writer?
Low cost of fossil fuel equals low cost of producing and supplying food.
Moving away from that, means increasing the cost of producing and supplying food.
Reducing the supply of fossil fuel, will make the supply more unique (egs., reducing locations), significantly increasing the cost of producing and supplying food.
I have to deal with technical reports and edit them all the time. A basic rule is that if one is going to use an acronym it need to be defined the first time it is used....otherwise a list of acronyms needs to be provided.
I was already stumbling over BEV since it wasn’t clear it meant battery...... is a BEV different than an EV? In what way is it different? And what is a PHEV? Or for that matter an O.G. or an EVP?
It means the Japs will have a monopoly on the market for vehicles that people want and work and are dependable. They aren't idiots.
The next issue is that 30% of car workers are no longer needed in a pure EV manufacturing process. The Germans who have a massive, very important to Germany’s economy, export driven automobile industry. The light bulb when on, “what to do with 250,000 workers no longer needed”? The social costs become a major issue. So Germany gets the EU to allow ICE engine using a “special new fuel”. That is a transition plan forced out of desperation the Germans faced with all of suddenly massive unemployment problem and cost. What to know why GM is laying off workers? Think of their march to becoming an EV manufacturer. Somehow I do not think they will finish this transition. Time will tell.
Toyota is smart and always looking forward.
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