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 legutierr on Sunday October 02, 2022 @09:13PM (#33062263)

> EVs are definitely going to remain a first-world item for my lifetime at least.

The largest EV market right now is China, and in India and other similar markets battery-swapping auto-rickshaws are increasingly common.

EVs in developing markets won't look like EVs in North America and Europe, but that doesn't mean that they won't be massive EV markets.

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Re:Toyota CEO talks about why he isn’t all-in on EVs by seanmcdirmid on Sunday October 02, 2022 @09:24PM (#33062338)

EVs have already hit it big in China now for more than a decade in the form of electric bicycles (the cheap kind, not the fancy > $1k ones we want in the west).

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Re:Toyota CEO talks about why he isn’t all-in on EVs by verisimi on Monday October 03, 2022 @02:08AM (#33063979)

I guess all their coal fueled power stations produce lots of cheap electricity.

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Re:Toyota CEO talks about why he isn’t all-in on EVs by jeegsy on Monday October 03, 2022 @08:35AM (#33066609)

Indeed!

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