Akio was trying to save face because Toyota is 10 years behind Tesla and focused on hydrogen. They made the wrong bet.

They aren’t meant to sail slower than necessary, they’re meant to sail at the precise speed which allows them to arrive when it is time to dock - instead of burning extra fuel to get there 10 hours early and then wait. Read it again.

I don’t see this as new. It’s GM’s 50+ year old way of doing things:

The marketing is wrong for companies. You don’t talk about reducing the emissions, you talk about decreasing the fuel cost to the ship owner.

Please. Toyota is hoping Trump wins so they can keep pumping out Sequioas, 4Runners and Grand Highlanders.  Toyota doesn’t care about the environment one lick.

Because the raw materials needed for most items are not found local to them. Those raw materials have to be shipped from all over the place to a manufacturer. It doesn’t matter if that manufacturer is in Myrtle Beach or Waixingzhu China, you are still having to ship everything at least a couple of times.

I think I know what you meant but this stopped my uncaffeinated brain dead in it’s tracks:

I tried explaining to a buddy at work why the new Humvee is lunacy and requires a commercial license in other countries, and he couldn’t wrap his head around it. 

Also, a state with the word “road” in its pronunciation is anti-car?

We have our safety regulations so backwards. We regulate personal safety but care little about mass safety. i.e. you can’t drive that, YOU could be killed in an accident? Versus - Of course you can tow a 40 foot trailer with your 12 foot tall truck with no prior experience because YOU will be okay if you crash.

This is very dumb. The smallest state should absolutely embrace the smallest trucks.  It’s called branding, you dummies!

they mention in the comments that it’s been leased through Toyota Financial.

Not while Trump keeps railing against them.

Also, Kid Rock grew up in a Detroit suburb and moved to DJ to be closer to B-boy culture. Let that sink in:

Rich, suburban midwestern kid moved to Detroit to be closer to Black culture and ended up proudly minstrel-showing his way to riches in front of a Confederate Battle Flag.

It really shouldn’t be hard to flip a Land Cruiser in today’s world.

The Confederate flag is the equivalent of the Nazi flag.

My favorite Confederate flag trivia is that it was never even the flag of The Confederacy.

That’s the part that gets me with that traitorous rag...it’s literally the symbol of traitors. Full stop.

May all of the neo-Confederates like Rock be inflicted with the dysentery and privation that killed so many of their treasonous role models during the Civil War.

Does this mean that a bunch of rednecks will stop seeing EVs as cultural genocide?