Toyota CEO talks about why he isn’t all-in on EVs

Re:Toyota CEO talks about why he isn’t all-in on EVs by markdown on Sunday October 02, 2022 @07:45PM (#33061613)

You'd never have to visit a "gas" station. You'd charge at home, at work, everywhere the car parks. Every parking lot in every building will be a charging station. You plug in your car wherever you are, and get a bill from the electricity company at the end of the month. Just park the car, and the lot will charge your batteries for you.

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Re:Toyota CEO talks about why he isn’t all-in on EVs by scld on Monday October 03, 2022 @09:37AM (#33067323)

Yeah, the issue is that you'll either have to install chargers every 10 feet in almost every city, or come up with some scheme to swap batteries, or have more "gas" stations because the charge time is longer.

My town has on average 1 car per household, but I'd guess like 0.25 off street spots per household. That's a lot of infrastructure on public land.

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Re:Toyota CEO talks about why he isn’t all-in on EVs by markdown on Monday October 03, 2022 @03:52PM (#33072746)

> Yeah, the issue is that you'll either have to install chargers every 10 feet in almost every city

It's just an electrical outlet. There are dozens of them for every parking spot already, in the house/office/building. Adding an extra electrical outlet isn't hard for a homeowner/lot-owner to do. This isn't going to have to happen overnight. It will happen slowly over two decades.

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Re:Toyota CEO talks about why he isn’t all-in on EVs by scld on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @10:42AM (#33081088)

I think we're talking about completely different areas. There aren't any electrical outlets on any of the parking meters or utility polls in my city or the surrounded city, and it's illegal to run an extension cord from, say, your 3rd story window, down the side of the building, across the sidewalk, to the street.

Regardless though, you're correct that it will take decades, but I think that this is one reason why a CEO wouldn't be all in. If it's going to take 25 years for a large chunk of customers to buy an EV, you still have a lot of cars to sell that are ICE.

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Re:Toyota CEO talks about why he isn’t all-in on EVs by nonethewiser on Sunday October 02, 2022 @10:15PM (#33062752)

So instead of building some gas stations here and there we just install hundreds of thousands charging stations on private and public property across a metro?

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Re:Toyota CEO talks about why he isn’t all-in on EVs by bryanlarsen on Sunday October 02, 2022 @10:52PM (#33062977)

It's not a "charging station", it's an electrical outlet. Your house probably has a couple dozen of them, they're cheap and easy to install. In cold regions, most parking spots already have one so people can plug in their block heater. That's proof by example that it can be done.

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Re:Toyota CEO talks about why he isn’t all-in on EVs by theshrike79 on Monday October 03, 2022 @03:37AM (#33064549)

You need to change your view of a "charging station". It's not the huge fridge sized thing that says "Electrify America" or something on it.

It's just a normal plug, maybe with some components related to metering and billing included. Load balancing if you want to be fancy.

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