Anonymous wrote:Someone isn’t a fan of Toyota. I think they’ll still do okay.

I bought my kid a RAV-4, used, and wish that I had not. When I bought it a year ago, I thought they were innovative and looking out for the customer. But like the previous poster mentioned, they are an actively villainous company. They make the NRA seem logical and coherent. It is actually surprising in this area with how informed people are that Toyota's are as popular. It is the deceit or smoke and mirrors that is so bad for us.

Someone isn’t a fan of Toyota. I think they’ll still do okay.

Toyota is quickly taking the mantle of the worst corporate company. Their action two weeks ago pressuring Japan to abandon its ten year car transformation plan was astounding and really showed the company for what it is. Toyota should be required by the federal government to match VW's investment in electrinification in the US. Toyota's impact in the environment and dishonesty to its customers makes Dieselgate seem insignificant.

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Anonymous wrote:Toyota is single handedly trying to deter the EV evolution with the Prius and its other Hybrid vehicles. It is all a guise for extending the life of internal combustion. Toyota does not build the Prius because great range is good for the driver, they build them because they assure the need for internal combustion.

I think your tinfoil hat is restricting the flow of blood to your brain.

Toyota is the worst. With Honda following right behind. They used to be industry leaders. Now they are deliberately stalling clean air technology for profits.

Toyota’s lobbying effort in Washington is part of a worldwide strategy of opposing stricter emissions standards and EV mandates. Executives at Toyota’s Indian subsidiary publicly criticized India’s target for 100 percent EVs by 2030. The company sued the Mexican government over fuel efficiency rules. In Japan, Toyota officials argued against carbon taxes.

“Toyota has gone from a leading position to an industry laggard” in clean-car policy, Danny Magill, an analyst at InfluenceMap, a think tank that tracks corporate climate lobbying, told the Times. InfluenceMap gives Toyota a D- grade, the worst of any automaker, because of its efforts to undermine public climate goals.

Anonymous wrote:Toyota is single handedly trying to deter the EV evolution with the Prius and its other Hybrid vehicles. It is all a guise for extending the life of internal combustion. Toyota does not build the Prius because great range is good for the driver, they build them because they assure the need for internal combustion.

I wouldn't want to be halfway into my trip and not have an option to switch to gas if the electric battery runs out.

Anonymous wrote:Toyota is single handedly trying to deter the EV evolution with the Prius and its other Hybrid vehicles. It is all a guise for extending the life of internal combustion. Toyota does not build the Prius because great range is good for the driver, they build them because they assure the need for internal combustion.

I think your tinfoil hat is restricting the flow of blood to your brain.

bZ4Xis only selling based on its manufacturer. It is a wholly inadequate EV for today. But if you know EV's you already know that.

Oh and while we are at it can we do something about the awful noise pollution that Toyota hybrids favor. I am starting to believe that they make the most obnoxious noise as part of their effort to dissuade EV adoption.

Toyota is planning for a transition to solid state automotive batteries. It holds most of the critical patents. So it’s playing a long game on transition while it makes bank with hybrids — which are far more practical and affordable for most Americans — for another couple of years. In the meantime it’s offering the bZ4X.

Honda likewise hasn’t jumped into the EV pool but us designing a EV SUV in conjunction with GM, which will supply batteries.

If Toyota snd Honda believed the demand was there at a certain price and battery range point they would have more vehicles available sooner. But they apparently don’t see the business case.

Toyota and Honda can and must think more strategically given the variations in the marketsxserved globally.

Anonymous wrote:No conspiracy too far-fetched.

Toyota is single handedly responsible for Japan pulling out of all of its automobile transition and climate goals. We don't hear about it here because they are such a popular company, but they are seen as troublesome now in Asia.

No conspiracy too far-fetched.