Dude, Toyota is bullshitting like this for the last 20 years exactly for the reason you’ve written.
OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Available in 2027 or 2028. I might be in the market around then, though I’m sure they’re gonna push it to the luxury brands first as an upgrade.
JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
ozymandias117@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If there was any chance of this being viable by 2028, they would have a demo car today that works
Car production timelines are LONG
DarkShaggy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yes this. If those years were realistic there would be a car we’d be looking at in prototype form.
schmidtster@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They could maybe make the battery the same form factor as the other one already in production so it wouldn’t be an issue. The battery tech may not allow that… but it’s possible.
ozymandias117@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It requires years of test drives to go to market and get production quantities enough to sell
There is a 0% chance it’s available in 2028 if there isn’t a demo unit today.
It might be in some high end “we’ll sell 1,000 of these cars” by then
schmidtster@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s a battery, they can probably forgo a lot of the usual testing since it’s only necessary to match voltage performance requirements.
In theory, it could also be used to replacing existing vehicles batteries as well.