I don’t listen to podcasts, but ok.

Please comprehend what I wrote.

An EV run to 200k or 300k will be waaaay more efficient than any ICE vehicle.

Any big truck Toyota is hybridizing are still guzzlers.  They’re not putting the hybrids in for efficiency.

If Toyota was really eco-conscious, it would’ve done that 10 years ago. Aside from a few models, Toyota stopped pushing widespread proliferation of hybrids across their lineup (outside of Japan).

“reluctance to go full EV seems to be tied largely to their presence in developing markets where EVs would either be impractical or impossible to implement on a large scale”

My last BMW was Sunset Orange. It’s a glorious color.

Japans Elon Musk is out with this weeks Press Release.

I leased my Polestar 2 in 2021.

Next year everything will change - when most EVs will be sold with NACS plugs.

Perhaps it’s another way of Ford saying they’re done investing in a new internal combustion engines and they’ll just milk the V8 until the very end. No sense in spending research and development money on a technology that is going the way of the dinosaurs.

Came to say this.  He certainly didn’t have good visibility and only “drifted” when he yanked the wheel to get back into his lane. 

“Police aren’t going to be fining folks for stopping a second to get a good pic of the Strip.”

$700/mo is crazy depending on income. For some, it’s rather reasonable.

Spot on in so many ways.

That’s about when Toyota took an interest in it.

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.