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.