Toyota is shipping renders in volume

And media is giving them coverage as if any were imminent

Pathetic

It’s only 48kW and, no, for low voltage vehicles it’s not a big fuse…is a pretty small one.

Short period is not flooring the vehicle, so your “safer bet” is a shitty bet.

The gearbox and gears are not designed for the stress.

Motor is used in the Semi.

Not the gearbox.

A Tesla drive unit is inappropriate for a heavy truck application. They barely last 100kmiles doing ~30kW continuous in a Tesla…

Not for mobility - too heavy. For grid storage, yes

iPhone would not have been included in PRISM ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM ) before Jobs’ body reached room temperature – he told the spooks to f*ck off while everybody else fell into line, including Zuckerberg.

I suspect they Shah of Iran’d him for it.

Awful product strategy.

Chinese consumers have already spent three decades breathing air pollution…they are not going to shit in their own nest with a Camry.

This is why they flipped to EV so fast. Toyota might as well have a JV with Stanley Steamer.

Because that woupd stop the transition to wind/solar, or at least double the cost of it.

Buncha nonsense, especially EVs being heavier than ICE cars.

Replacing a 120mpg scooter with an e-scooter doesn’t do much, maybe 2x improvement. Replacing a 12mpg truck with a EV is 10x improvement.

Every bit helps, but the article is full of stuff pulled out of where the author sits, imo.

Many states have EV parking laws that are 3 hours max to keep people from camping on chargers.

Big Auto made a HUGE mistake in backpedaling to ICE during the speculator-based price spike of Lithium.

They committed capex for ICE and can’t shut it down. Now are back to lobbying to extend ICE because of their inability to stay on plan with EV.

Byeee

I’m surprised that got by Opel’s trademark, Ampera

500 mile range is nothing short of silly and is completely arbitrary.

Average driving in US is 37miles/day. Most people charge each evening after that 37 mile run.