Let’s stipulate a couple of facts right at the top: Toyota makes a lot of cars, so many that it’s the world’s largest or second-largest auto manufacturer every year. Toyota makes a lot of good, reliable cars. The Corolla, for instance, may not be flashy but the little things will go for a quarter-million miles or more and they mostly just run without breaking down much. Change the oil when you’re supposed to and you’re probably good to go.
Let’s stipulate one more fact: Whether cars keep burning gas or run on electricity, Toyota is poised to make and sell millions of electric vehicles. It already has the game-changing solid-state battery coming on line. It launched the Prius way back in 1997. Toyota has not only not resisted the adaptation of EVs, it has led the way. Fundamentally, Toyota does not care if cars are powered by gas or nuclear fusion engines as long as it maintains its position and sells millions of them.
So Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda’s comments at the company’s year-end press conference deserve notice and no little amount of respect. He knows more about cars and their economic ecosystem than just about anyone else on the planet.
The Wall Street Journal was in attendance and noted the CEO’s disdain for EVs boils down to his belief they’ll ruin businesses, require massive investments, and even emit more carbon dioxide than combustion-engined vehicles. “The current business model of the car industry is going to collapse,” he said. “The more EVs we build, the worse carbon dioxide gets… When politicians are out there saying, ‘Let’s get rid of all cars using gasoline,’ do they understand this?”
CarBuzz has mischaracterized Toyoda’s comments. It’s not “disdain for EVs” he’s expressing. It’s disdain for the failure to count the cost of what politicians are proposing. More EVs will demand more electricity.
But you do have enough stupid democrats who insist
Oh but
Your a rascist if your against global warming
The commie preachers of “following the science” are not gonna be happy with not just one, but two of the elites speaking truth. They will quickly be forced back in line or discredited as science deniers- whatever it takes to hide the lies coming from the illegitimate regime.
Not so complicated, but an ability to face facts helps. Climate crazies are missing that piece.
We all like and use electricity, and we use a lot more than before because of devices and tech in homes, in addition to business & industry, and ecars.
Which sources to use for the juice is the question. Each source has pluses and minuses. Nukes, coal, gases and oil can be used around the clock and managed as demand rises and falls across the day and seasons. Wind and solar vary depending on weather and time of day; they are supplements, at best.
Building more nukes and dispersing them is the real key to a stable supply. More nukes allows for lower fossil usage. Resource cost to create solar and wind devices is high, and involves problems with disposal when they fail. Child labor to harvest rare minerals is shielded from view.
Today, and foreseeable future we don’t have the capacity to make enough electricity to satisfy the wish list.
When the power goes out, you are Fkkked !!!! The Govt controls the grid , that’s the idea !!!! CONTROL
Better save some gas before the switch !!! or you are stuck Depending on electric & stuck with Ur Car !!!