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Re:What Happened to EVs? by heresie-dabord on Thursday January 04, 2024 @08:38AM (#38866829)
> you need to make it work before you make it cheap

I don't disagree with that principle. But Toyota, for example, has been making hybrids for, hmmm, a quarter of a century.[1]

US manufacturers have been maliciously compliant. [2]

[1] _ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Prius

[2] _ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malicious_compliance

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Re:What Happened to EVs? by robertlagrant on Thursday January 04, 2024 @08:51AM (#38866947)
> But Toyota, for example, has been making hybrids for, hmmm, a quarter of a century.

Sure, but that's not very long. 25 years after ICE cars were invented they weren't nearly as affordable as a Prius is today.

> US manufacturers have been maliciously compliant. [2]

I don't understand how they can be (who is the manufacturer blindly obeying the orders of?).

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