Prius sales figures have been declining for a decade. Maybe the cooler all-new one will change that but it remains to be seen.

I’d also like to mention the trend with Manufacturers and dealerships:

Dealership: Orders everything in black, white, and gray. Pushes sales on the cars they have in stock.
Manufacturer: *arms up in the air* Hmmm, I guess people don’t want to buy colorful cars, let’s stop offering colorful cars.

The thing is, total deaths were declining steadily while the population grew. Until 2010 when they started to climb back up. (Numbers are slightly different than the report because this chart uses a different dataset.)

With the $7500 rebate, you can now get a Tesla 3 for less than a mid-range Accord.

“167 horsepower, the EV6 Light gets 232 miles of range.”

Yeah, they don’t sell well. I guess that’s why the Model Y was the best selling car worldwide last quarter.

There’s a sign in front of the crosswalk that says to Yield to pedestrians in the crosswalk. 

Good try buddy! But breaking the law isn't any more special for an AI then it would be for you. Well I guess that's not really true, but you get the idea.

It’s straight-up illegal. You must yield to pedestrians in crosswalks — as in stopping your car. In particular, if this were a kid, you can’t predict that they won’t suddenly speed up. The purpose of yielding is that you don’t have to deal with the what ifs.

Toyota: EV charging infrastructure is lacking

They aren’t entirely wrong. Of course they could also eliminate a bunch of carbon by eliminating pickup trucks and SUVs from their portfolio, but I guess that’s a step too far?

At this point it is not about overall carbon reduction. Rather, its that pretty soon, consumers are gonna all want pure EVs. In totality, the entire car experience is just better with an EV, carbon emissions aside. The public is waking up to that.

I’ve been driving an EV for 6 years, and a hybrid before that. Toyota…

Hybrids are the worst of both worlds. They have an automatic transmission, emissions controls system, and traction batteries, all of which are expensive to service. Before anyone claims that EVs have an automatic transmission, they actually are a single speed gear reduction box which is more similar to the final drive…

Right? That was my first take-away.

No EV is going to stop working after 3 years. You clearly don’t know much about EV battery longevity. Heck, they’re even warrantied for at least 8 years.  At worst, after 10 years an EV battery *might* degrade to 80% of its new-condition.  That means a 300 mile range EV might be a 240 mile range EV, in 2033.

If you don’t drive a whole lot then you don’t need an (PH)EV either. A gas car that barely ever gets used is just as efficient as no car or an EV. EVs are more efficient the more you drive it.

there are over 130,000 public chargers across the entire country

Coal powered cars will be allowed to be sold through any method going forwards including but not limited to vending machines and games of chance

Ah yes, freedom to not be able to choose what kind of car I buy. The beautiful competitive spirit of outlawing products you don’t want to compete with.

So much for free market capitalism.