' ... but won't say who (besides themselves) wants their fcv '
% From an EV-hating, twice RAV4-EV killing automaker, why would they? =Another PR ploy to promote TMC's immense fcv push % http://green.autoblog.com/2014/10/28/toyota-says-no-one-wants-a-toyota-electric-car/ Toyota says no one wants a Toyota electric car By Sebastian Blanco Oct 28th 2014 Los Angeles Times [image] Toyota iQ EV Say What? It's no secret that Toyota doesn't really have a heart in pushing pure electric vehicles. The very limited Scion iQ EV project was killed before it went very far and the RAV4 EV project with Tesla was always only meant to produce just 2,600 units, but it didn't even get that far. In short, by all public appearances, Toyota just doesn't see the value of a pure EV. "No one is coming to our door asking us to build a new electric car." – Toyota's Craig Scott Toyota's public reasoning for the lack of a Prius C EV, for example, has often been that customers don't want to compromise on range and that hydrogen is a better bet. Company executives like Bob Carter say so over and over again. A new comment by Craig Scott, Toyota's national manager of advanced technologies, says that the Japanese automaker, give a slightly different spin on things. "Toyota actually favors fuel cells over other zero-emission vehicles, like pure battery electric vehicles," he told the Los Angeles Times. "We would like to be still selling cars when there's no more gas. And no one is coming to our door asking us to build a new electric car." This, understandably, has riled up a lot of EV supporters, many of whom have called on all automakers to sell more electric vehicles. After all, if Nissan can sell around 3,000 EVs a month in the US, couldn't Toyota do something similar? Are there thousands of people coming to the door asking for the fuel cell sedan that Toyota will start selling in the US next year? That answer is unclear, but it certainly doesn't look like Toyota is backing off its H2 bet any time soon. [© green.autoblog.com] http://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-le-1029-wednesday-hydrogen-fuel-cell-cars-20141029-story.html Don't buy the fuel-cell hype -- electric cars hold the most promise [20141028] For EVLN posts use: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html#nabble+template%2FNamlServlet.jtp%3Fmacro%3Dsearch_page%26node%3D413529%26query%3Devln+-re%26sort%3Ddate http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/james-blog/2377519/could-lego-ditching-shell-present-an-opportunity-for-clean-tech Who wouldn't want to play w/ a Lego wind or solar farm powering an EVSE? Shell-Oil used Lego to normalise & promote ice & gas-stations ... http://online.wsj.com/articles/lego-to-end-shell-collaboration-after-greenpeace-campaign-1412845373 http://news.discovery.com/earth/lego-ends-shell-partnership-after-greenpeace-video-141009.htm http://cleantechnica.com/2014/10/30/energy-dept-still-chasing-fuel-cell-electric-vehicle-unicorn/ U.S. Energy Dept. still pump/dumping wad$ of fcv-Unicorn ca$h https://uk.news.yahoo.com/off-grid-german-village-banks-wind-sun-pig-133239546.html Feldheim.de smart-off-grid powered EVSE> wind, sun, pig-manure, bio+ ... http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/culture/48754-141026-off-grid-german-village-banks-on-wind-sun-pig-manure + EVLN: Converted Mazda5 EV goes 457 Slovenian miles on 1charge (videos) {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-Say-Watt-TMC-sez-no-one-wants-a-Toyota-EV-tp4672317.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
