On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 3:15 AM, brucedp5 via EV<[email protected]> wrote:
"No one is coming to our door asking us to build a new electric car."
Chris Tromley via EV wrote:
I, for one, did precisely that. When I saw the Lexus ad
that openly bashes EVs I wrote to Toyota marketing and told them I had
previously been a happy Toyota owner. But after that clear demonstration
of their hostility toward EVs, one of our best opportunities to stop
degrading the planet we all rely on, I would stop buying Toyotas of any
kind. And stop advising others to buy Toyotas when asked for my opinion as
a "car guy". The only way they could bring me back into the fold would be
to build - and actively promote - a pure electric vehicle.
I seriously doubt I am alone.
No; you certainly aren't alone. You have LOTS of company!
When Toyota sought to terminate the leases on their RAV4-EVs, they were
inundated with pleas from consumers desperate to keep them. (Toyota
reneged, unlike GM and the other automakers).
When the Toyota Prius came to the US in 2000, I tried to get one from
every local dealer. No dice; they all tried to sell me an SUV or
something else instead. I had to order it online from Toyota America,
and wait 6 months to get it.
Later, I tried to buy their plug-in Prius. Again, they ignored my pleas,
and wouldn't sell me one.
And every time I took our Prius in for service, I ask yet AGAIN when I
can buy an EV. I'm always turned away.
I have an image in my mind. A Toyota dealership, with and electric car
in the showroom, and mobs of people outside clamoring to get in and buy
it. And the manager inside, with dark glasses and a seeing-eye dog,
telling a reporter, "I don't see any demand for these cars".
--
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is
nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
-- Antoine de Saint Exupery
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Lee Hart's EV projects are at http://www.sunrise-ev.com/LeesEVs.htm
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