I always wonder what are your
I always wonder what are your motivations for trying to make Tesla look comparatively bad all the time. You have doing this for years now. Nobody else could reasonably view Tesla's unrivaled success as a failure, the way that you paint it by revealing only part of the information. Toyota (like VW, GM, Ford, Hyundai) sells millions of vehicles. And now they are offering more of their best selling vehicles with a hybrid option, and for a couple models, a plug-in hybrid version, but still not one full electric model in the U.S. Tesla, on the other hand has always only sold BEVs. Toyota (like many legacy automakers) has been making excuses why they cannot build BEVs competitively. As opposed to engineering a way around the shortcomings of electric vehicles, as Tesla is doing. Actually, considering Toyota's typical Japanese corporate conservatism, they are moving quickly and boldly into electrified vehicles. And I have always praised Toyota relative to other legacy automakers like Chrysler who produce NO EVs, but have only one PHEV and nothing else yet. It is better to offer a fleet of hybrids rather than one single EV model, sold in low volumes. Ironically, all of the legacy Japanese automakers are going to be driven to produce EVs by 2030-35 when a ban on the sale of polluting vehicles in Japan begins.
Toyota President Akio Toyoda said that if Japan banned gasoline-powered cars, and moved to electric vehicles too hastily, “the current business model of the car industry is going to collapse.”
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga pointed to a different portion of Mr. Toyoda’s comments in which the Toyota chief said he backed the government’s goal of making Japan carbon-neutral by 2050. Reducing carbon emissions “should be tackled as a strategy for growth, not as a limitation on growth,” Mr. Suga said. And I wholeheartedly agree with Mr. Suga.