Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout
epyon22@programming.dev 11 months agoI’m putting money on Toyota and their Panasonic batteries to build something like a Corolla EV for $25k USD 400 mile range.
Infrastructure is going to have to keep up too. Unless you are in a progressive/new/expensive apartment/neighborhood has reliable access to chargers that’s going to have to change before you can start selling EVs to lower and lower middle class. Right now they only make sense of you have a garage to park in.
Also power generation capacity needs to increase for everyone to drive EVs. Just think of all the power that is currently handled by burning gas in personal power plants.
Though some of that will be mitigated by less need to refine gas and transport it to every gas station.
This isn’t really the case, as there is a lot of spare electrical capacity available at night time, which is when most people charge their cars. That’s also when electricity is the cheapest.
We charge our two cars off of a 110 volt charger. They use less electricity than the water heater in our house.
This isn’t really the case, as there is a lot of spare electrical capacity available at night time, which is when most people charge their cars. That’s also when electricity is the cheapest.
We charge our two cars off of a 110 volt charger. It uses less electricity than the water heater in our house.
Toyota has been claiming that since 2010. They are no closer to a “solid state battery” that they have been raving about for the last 13 years. They don’t even sell electric cars in Japan!
Toyota is widely considered to be the furthest behind the technology curve of all global car manufacturers, aside from maybe Lada.
They’ve got a huge share of the hybrid market. Why release something sub par (expensive, low range, needs to be plugged in) my guess is they let Tesla and other companies fight it out and learn from them wait for the infrastructure to catch up then sell to the common person not just people who can afford to have a less practical car.
RupeThereItIs@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Toyota is a bad bet when it comes to EVs.
They clearly have no interest in selling them.
epyon22@programming.dev 11 months ago
I think they are just being very conservative on their lineup. They’ll hold on to hybrids till they can absolutely rock the EV world. Technology that improves EVs generally improves hybrids also and they will just sell better because they are more flexible.
PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Well that’s not going to work in Europe, where the evening mandates are hitting now. I guess it’s Toyota’s plan to seed one third of the world car market to European, Chinese and American manufacturers.
prole@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
They’ve been openly working on new battery tech that’s apparently going to change the entire industry. I’m pretty sure they have plenty of interest in selling them, they just don’t have the tech they want for them yet.
rikonium@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Those types of announcements are their equivalent of Tesla’s “full-self driving next year guys!” every year since like 2015?