I have to wonder, is Japan subsidizing/supporting Toyota’s hydrogen future? I’ve heard hydrogen is quite prevalent there and with Honda also offering hydrogen cars and Hyundai selling only their hydrogen Nexo and EV Ioniq 5 in Japan it would seem that there’s overall a big infrastructure push toward hydrogen on the…

I live in alabama and most of our electricity is from coal, natural gas, and gasoline/diesel fuel. driving an EV is just using a combustion engine miles away whenever you charge.  Nobody would give a crap about EVs if gasoline was cheap and electricity was expensive, its just the other way around and that is driving…

Because for a vast majority of the population, THEY ARE GOOD ENOUGH. Toyota is banking on people realizing this and since they already know how to make hybrids really well, they are just biding their time rather than spending ungodly amounts of money on the latest hot thing to grab simple minded shareholder’s and…

People buying Toyotas are not trendsetters generally. They’re methodically moving into EVs rather than rushing out some crap.

Toyota does everything slowly and carefully. I assume part of the perceived slowness is watching every mistake made by other manufacturers, what the market actually buys then making it. The bZ4x is just poorly named IMO but the car is solid... once the wheels are secured.

The EV space doesn’t feel quite ready for prime time. Most of the vehicles are quite expensive and the charging infrastructure just doesn’t seem up to the task. On top of that, I’m not convinced that driving around heavy batteries is doing much for the environment. The electricity is generated and transmitted. The…