hybrids enable you to go when coal fireds strand you on the hi-way
Oh yeah. Toyota doesn’t know how to do R&D? They don’t know how to play the long game? Don’t know how to make money?
Get outta here!!
The problem with the EVs is that there is not enough material to make batteries for near as many cars as Toyota produces.
It's more conceivable that Toyota (and Nissan) will actually be ahead of the curve as they are embracing a technology that could actually be a true alternative, hydrogen.
Stupid analysis. Toyota is smart enough to know that there is not even -close- to enough of the metals on planet earth to build the batteries needed for an all electric fleet.
Then Toyota also knows that a small gasoline engine combined with a smaller battery hybrid gives you range, safety, cabin heat, etc etc.
Chances are, Toyota, a worldwide company, Japanese and beyond woke thinking guilt trips knows better than true believers of EV.
I’m not about to buy a $80,000 car where the $20,000 battery will go out in a few years. That is, if the car doesn’t spontaneously burst into flames first. If rich people want them as expensive toys, fine. Maybe in 25 years most of the bugs will be worked out and they will be affordable.
Most of Toyotas popular models are also available as hybrids.
Reap what you sew, peons.
You may take your EV’s and stick them where the sun don’t shine. Big legit V-8’s for me, all day long.
What would the EV share of the new car market be without CAFE standards and financial incentives to buy EVs?
If government tyranny successfully forces the issue, Toyota is doing fine already on Hydrogen cars in California and Japan, and can use (we hope) a better battery technology than is presently available is forced to make battery EVs in large numbers.
Apple was nowhere first to the party with MP3 players, but when their better product came out, it dominated despite the high cost.
If reality kicks in on batteries and power generation, Toyota is already there, though already hybrid-centric due to CAFE. They do hybrids well, though I do not care for the underlying philosophy of them.
I am already planning to keep my wife’s 2018 Avalon going for as long as there is gasoline and a me.
Toyota is not wrong about EVs. It is going the hybrid route, which looks better to me. If your hybrid can only do 40-50 miles on the fully charged battery... This means the battery is smaller, not as heavy. Easier to fully charge at night while plugged into a 220 volt line.
This way, if you mostly drive around town daily, you can go fully electric and save by not buying gasoline. Then in effect you are owning and driving an EV. At the same time, you can take a 1000 mile quickie family vacation and go (nearly) all gasoline powered.
The Day will come when EV’s are good for nothing but lawn ornaments. The way things are going I don’t expect the lights to be on forever.
Toyota is a industry leader with their hybrids starting with the Prius. Hybrids are more complex but I prefer to have an onboard generator to keep my vehicle going rather than be stuck 75%+ of my time waiting for my car to charge. A pure electric is fine if all you do is go back and forth on a commute. However if you want to go on a roar trip on occasion, live in the frigid north or don’t have ready access to a charging port (like lots of city apartment dwellers) then pure electric vehicles come up short.
Teslas are trendy right now and have established themselves as the leader in electric cars, but they don’t have the build quality or low lifetime costs of a Toyota. A similarly priced Lexus 10 years later and with 200kmiles is going to be ready to keep on going without any major outlays for repair. You won’t find a Tesla still going after that time without a lot more money spent on batteries for it.
It has more to do with rich dumb libtards overpaying for battery cars than Tesla kicking Toyota. Toyota builds cars that Tesla doesn’t even offer
I doubt it because I’d buy a hybrid Toyota any day before I’d even consider a Tesla.
Plus I can tuck my 2 hot rods and my hayabusa into the garage safe and sound every night. If you do that with a Tesla it might KILL you
Just park your overpriced battery car outside in the hail and the crime like the car maker warned you to do.
Toyota knows that EV’s aren’t ready for prime time. Until a massive breakthrough in battery technology happens they’re just toys. A bunch of greenie lunatics wishing it was so doesn’t make it true.