US Big Three Auto Companies Commit to Making Cars That People Don't Want: But One Japanese Company Realizes the Tomfoolery of it all

Townhall ^ | 01/10/2023 | Steve Moore

[brownsfan]

“This forced EV adoption is not going to end well.”

I’ve seen enough recently to know that will not stop them. Heck, it’s not even going to slow them down. Sadly, the public has been so well indoctrinated that the mess will be accepted as the price of “progress”.

[ActresponsiblyinVA]

Charging stations for EVs should be required to get their electricity from solar panels or windmills. Isn't it inconsistent for these stations to get their electricity from coal, gas or nuclear power plants and service EVs?

[NorthMountain]

Toyota builds a consistently quality product.

Guess where they're made ...

[kiryandil]

Toyota makes a great vehicle - I have two of them (older) and if I buy a truck it will probably be a Toyota.

The guy that wrote this article obviously doesn't work on his own vehicles.

I have no use for Eloi like that.

[dvan]

Our best hope is to elect a Republican President that has business experience and savvy, Maybe this trend can be ‘stopped’ or delayed until something better developed like ‘hydrogen’ power cars. This dictorial, globalist Presdient is a disaster.

[Jeff Chandler]

Those Volkswagon bugs and vans were known for their excellent water pumps.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: The next and perhaps final vehicles will most likely be Toyota products

Many Toyota’s are MADE IN AMERICA.

Toyota Vehicles Made in the USA

Toyota Sienna (Princeton, Indiana)
Toyota Sequoia (Princeton, Indiana)
Toyota Highlander (Princeton, Indiana)
Toyota RAV4 Hybrid (Georgetown, Kentucky)
Toyota Camry (Georgetown, Kentucky)
Toyota Avalon (Georgetown, Kentucky)
Toyota Tacoma (San Antonio, Texas)
Toyota Tundra (San Antonio, Texas)
Toyota Corolla (Blue Springs, Mississippi)

Toyota also has plants located in Alabama, Missouri, Tennessee, and Virginia. In 2018, the automaker built nearly 2 million vehicles at its North American vehicle assembly plants alone.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

In fact, I’ve never known of one failing. Not one.

[Jeff Chandler]

The guy that wrote this article obviously doesn't work on his own vehicles.

Most people who purchase new cars do not work on their own vehicles, especially the ones with 100,000 mile warranties.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Toyota is still working on new technology. I hope the ICE never goes away. But maybe hydrogen powered vehicles will have a place, and not as an inefficient money pit like EV’s.

Honestly, I don’t care what technology they’re made of.
I just want cars that I buy to be reliable, safe and sturdy.

Let the market ( that is, we the people collectively ) be the judge of that, not bureaucrats sitting on their desks.

[MachIV]

I will not either. Been boycotting their stuff for years because to buy UAW is to send money to the DNC.

[NorthMountain]

Toyota has a motor/transmission factory in West Virginia and a battery factory in North Carolina.

[mewzilla]

Ford isn’t as risk if Deep State keeps shoveling taxpayer money at it.

Anyone know if Ford has gotten any government fleet sales contracts lately...?

Any insanely generous regulatory and/or tax relief..?

Betcha.

[teeman8r]

what is a toyoda?

[bert]

Both Ford and GM are in deep financial trouble and continue to lose market share. Neither can produce EV’s that are competitive

The author made one glaring error. Tesla is an American car company and is the world leader in electric vehicle car sales.

The author again misses the point. An electric vehicle can’t be stranded in in the middle of no where if it doesn’t go there.

[teeman8r]

series? toyoda works for toyota? this is hugh.

[teeman8r]

the transition to all EV will take longer than to realize the folly of it and used gas guzzlers will be available all throughout the fluster cluck that is coming.

Ford will go along at first, then see the folly quicker as their f150 line of EVs will fail quicker.

[Candor7]

I will own only Chevrolet or GM short box pick up trucks with 4.8 liter engines 1999 to 2005.

Shortly after that they stopped making real trucks.

But I have owned one of these for the past 21 years , know how to fix them, and there are plenty out there to buy in good shape.

[asinclair]

Lithium Ion batteries aren't the only way to "go green". Musk and Co are looking at other, safer chemistry options. Plus, chemistry isn't the only way to store power in a car.

I remember the research that went into flywheel storage. There was a bus system that used flywheels to "charge up" at night, and run all day on city streets. Regenerative braking was used to extend the range. And if, for some reason, the flywheel lost all power, they had trucks that could go out and crank them up some more.

Research into hydrogen-based fuel systems, especially systems that don't require carbon, are just now getting out of the research lab and into "gas stations". For me, the exciting part was when fuel generators can use humidity in the air to extract the fuel, eliminating the need to truck fuel to the stations.

Can micro-SMRs replace a diesel generator for locomotives? The Navy has shown that reactors can work in mobile environments, as well as NASA's use of reactors on spacecraft.

Anyone still remember those articles that suggested that automobiles can be used on roads AND on rails? Once you do that, you can look to use power in the rails.

We need many solutions, not a "one thing fits all" idea.

[Georgia Girl 2]

I don’t know one person who owns an EV or wants one. Ford has lost their mind and I predict they will be bankrupt in 18-24 mos.