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Re:Toyota CEO Says “Silent Majority” of Auto Industry Is Dou... by funstuff007 on Monday December 26, 2022 @10:40AM (#34138454)
It's pretty easy to find contrary evidence--depending on your exact definition of soon.

At COP26, leading automotive companies, businesses, governments, and investors agreed to work towards all new cars and vans being zero emission vehicles by 2035 in leading markets and by 2040 globally.

New Polling Shows U.S. Voters Support Full Transition to Electric Cars by 2030

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-polling-shows-u...

Re:Toyota CEO Says “Silent Majority” of Auto Industry Is Dou... by JumpinJack_Cash on Monday December 26, 2022 @10:51AM (#34138606)
All this stuff is just words .

Such commitments can be reversed by approximately 57000 people in the specific counties in battleground states

And when the US pulls out of something everyone follows suit for obvious reasons.

Re:Toyota CEO Says “Silent Majority” of Auto Industry Is Dou... by seydor on Monday December 26, 2022 @10:55AM (#34138663)
It would be interesting to know what europeans feel about EVs after the war
Re:Toyota CEO Says “Silent Majority” of Auto Industry Is Dou... by phpisthebest on Monday December 26, 2022 @11:54AM (#34139364)
>>leading automotive companies, businesses, governments, and investors agreed

Yes, they are all rent seeking trying to get tax payers to pay for the capital outlays for the transition.

>New Polling Shows U.S. Voters Support

There are a few issues with their poll[1] and their sampling, by looking at their responses it appears they surveyed primary car drivers not SUV or Trucks, while SUV's and Trucks are the top selling class of vehicles this leads me to believe they have problems with their sampling and have a bias towards people that would naturally be more prone to accept BEV replacement

I also take issue with the phrasing of their questions around the public policy being proposed for 2030.

[1]https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5888d6bad2b857a30238e...