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Re:Shoichiro Toyoda, who turned Toyota into global automaker... by hindsightbias on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @11:15AM (#34805862)
Some analysts like Munro think legacies will take much longer to catch up to Tesla because they're evolving ICE designs/standards into their EVs and crippling them. Toyota is so huge they could have afforded a clean-sheet platform but waited too long so they'll fall into the same cycle.
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Re:Shoichiro Toyoda, who turned Toyota into global automaker... by somerandomqaguy on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @12:30PM (#34807392)
They do have a clean sheet design: e-TNGA. The Toyota bZ4X and the Subaru Soltarra are both based on the design, along with the bZ3 and the upcoming Lexus RZ.
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Re:Shoichiro Toyoda, who turned Toyota into global automaker... by hindsightbias on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @04:27PM (#34810806)
e-TNGA just appears to be an e- added to commonize with the TNGA gasoline architecture.

> Now Terashi’s group is considering whether to drop the three-year-old e-TNGA architecture, created by modifying a gasoline car platform, in favor of a dedicated EV platform, people with knowledge of that work have said.

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14790566

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