Waymo partners with Toyota to bring autonomous driving to personal vehicles

Re:Waymo partners with Toyota to bring autonomous driving to... by GloamingNiblets on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @07:28PM (#43839292)

This is 100% intentional, they have been clear that their strategic direction is hybrids, not pure electric. Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterlyon/2024/03/03/bucking-in...

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Re:Waymo partners with Toyota to bring autonomous driving to... by m463 on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @07:48PM (#43839450)

> have been clear

I disagree. They backed hydrogen / fuel cells for most of the years others were developing bevs.

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Re:Waymo partners with Toyota to bring autonomous driving to... by princevegeta89 on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @07:58PM (#43839526)

The Hydrogen/fuel-cells were not mass-marketable for some reason, and also beyond that they have been hard to manufacture and sustain, especially when it came to setting up that network of fueling stations and adoptability for customers.

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Re:Waymo partners with Toyota to bring autonomous driving to... by m463 on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @11:27PM (#43840974)

I remember looking at a fueling station years ago, and one kg of hydrogen (~ 1 gal of gas?) was over $17 at the time.

No worries for the folks who got free fuel with their car at first, but didn't seem sustainable (for a wallet).

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Re:Waymo partners with Toyota to bring autonomous driving to... by OJFord on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @07:30PM (#43839314)

And they were way ahead on hybrids, at least from my perspective in the UK market.

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Re:Waymo partners with Toyota to bring autonomous driving to... by Angostura on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @07:55PM (#43839505)

every single minivan in London, it seems

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