Source: TOYOTA NEWS #103｜"The customer will choose": Vehicle electrification strategy for decarbonation - Selections from Toyota's 1H/2Q financial results Q&A session . . . And, as President Toyoda shared, we believe it is the customer who ultimately will choose the type of mobility. Based on what the customer chooses, regardless of regulation, our goal is to still reach the point of being carbon neutral. By working to accomplish these two objectives simultaneously, it will be necessary for us to brush up or enhance our technologies. As a full line-up manufacturer, we invest a lot in FCEV and BEV, and while waiting for those, HEVs are the most effective, then PHEV will come next. . . . This is one of the best explanations of why we traded-in our 2017 Prius Prime for a 2019 Std Rng Plus Model 3. Toyota is wandering in a wilderness of their own making. Bob Wilson
I think 311 was man made and revenge for Prius so they do what the fossil fuel industry tells them- and they are still surrounded by rising neighbors that are still super angry over WWII and as a client state they seem to want to appease the US and look at Trumps idiot official fossil fuel first bs. Outside of nixing the garbage TPP- right thing to do Trumps whole goal was to tarif solar while trying to get China to by unneeded dirty obsolete natural gas. China agreed to appease him (knowing he had an expiration date) but like France didn't do it. World doesn't need that obsolete ****.
Japan and France learning from WWII choose nuclear because being forced to depend on fossil fuels is a huge plug pulling liability in war. 311 took Japan's nuclear off line and ramped up fossil fuel. Meant to put above I think (rather than I think 311 was man made) thar there is suspicion that 311 was man made. But if that were the case it has to be supercharging Japan's actual intent to leave fossil fuels behind the scenes. During 311 a nuclear gas cloud arose that could have blown through Tokyo putting 100 million at risk- people cloudn't even get out of the city because of gas stations and traffic. By the way Vietnam has about 97 million people and claims not a single Covid casualty- think that is due to more effective quarantining or loading mosquitos with counter agents?
If you want to see the massive hole Toyota is digging go look up Woven City. Toyota believes the path to being a mobility service provider is creating autonomous vehicles that rely on infrastructure. Hence their intent to build and evolve their own city. DAS auto tried this. Audi's self parking car used a multistory car park outfitted with various sensors communicating with the vehicle. I believe Mercedes autonomous work also relied on connected infrastructure. The failure of taking this path is a reliance on upgrading infrastructure everywhere to create a viable solution. It's just another crutch. Makes things easy to start with for small scale demos, but stops you doing the hard work that is necessary. Much like how lidar helps avoid having to do computer vision, until you reach the limits of lidar.
