With all the know how and cash they have, Toyota could’ve invested in BEVs when Tesla was, yet they chose not to. Instead, they went with hydrogen. Also, when it came time to choose a side (California and tougher standards, or Trump and dirtier standards), they chose Trump.

If Volvo can get the supply of EX30s onto lots, they’ll have a big hit on their hands.

I have beef with Toyota because they squandered their opportunity to lead and chose to follow the herd into bigger and badder SUVs. Even today, instead of hyper efficient hybrid pickups, Toyota is only putting hybrids in the biggest baddest models (with very slight efficiency gains), not the volume sellers. Where’s…

I’d counter that Tesla had a 15 year head start, something no other make had because they abandoned responsibility and focused R&D on ever-bigger and badder pick ups and SUVs.

Akio Toyoda is getting to be really annoying.  Kind of like a Japanese Elon Musk.

It’s not lost on me that the state with the first NEVI stations is deep red Ohio. The Republican governor was so proud.

Within 1 mile of me went from 5 gas stations to 3. Meanwhile, charging stations have opened up (1 Level 3) and many more Level 2 locations proliferate all over the place.

I do have beef with people who proclaim they’re a ‘bridge to the EV future’ who for the last 10-20 years kept buying gas guzzlers in lieu of said hybrids because they really don’t give a shit about what happens to the planet.

The NEVI stations have started opening.

These aren’t being built by “government contractors”

Who says they are stopping building gas stations? The logic makes no sense.

6 years is a long time, don’t bet against it.

Toyota is being dragged kicking and screaming in modernity. Akio has been very persistent in spreading anti-EV propaganda instead of promoting solutions, and Toyota has rested too long on its hybrid-laurels and hoped hydrogen would take off.

I don’t believe anything coming from Toyota PR these days. They’ve lost all credibility.

The “20 is Plenty” policy goal is to engrain that idea into the (hard)heads of drivers that in dense, urban environments, 20 mph is a high enough speed to get where you’re going without posing a death threat against a person outside your vehicle.

At 2-3 years old, Hertz is selling tons of ICE vehicles as well.

and its incredible how many Americans want to reward the Chinese by allowing EV rebates with US taxpayer dollars to flow into Chinese technology development.  It has to stop.

2nd and 3rd: China

“string of winters” is climate.  It’s a changing.

“up to 150 kW – honestly kind of disappointing”