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Re:The president of Toyota will be replaced to accelerate th... by Corrado on Friday January 27, 2023 @01:51AM (#34543371)
> The one thing that EVs require is an EV charger network to exist in the foreign countries that Toyota sells the cars to. Without an existing EV charger network, it becomes a chicken and the egg problem for Toyota since, as a Japanese company, it would likely face a difficult time getting financing to build EV charger networks in foreign countries.

This could be solved today by using Tesla's Supercharging network, or at least their NACS[0] connector in the North American market. I know that auto makers don't want to rely on each other for _reasons_ but siding with Tesla would give them an instant charging network and completely solve the problem in one go.

[0] https://www.tesla.com/blog/opening-north-american-charging-s...

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Re:The president of Toyota will be replaced to accelerate th... by somethoughts on Friday January 27, 2023 @03:30AM (#34543913)
Interesting - yes going forward now that they seem committed to EV. That would be a pretty unique partnership - and require a lot of trust on the part of Toyota.
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