If Toyota or another company does well it will be because they make a car that competes well. That is what Musk has wanted all along. This is not a zero sum game, and it will take 10 years or more to make a dent in the ICE population.
Toyota needs to say this because they have been dense, fossilized, and way behind. They made other choices that didn't have the legs that they thought (before there was a Tesla). Prius was a good thing for them and they were smart to ride that horse. Maybe they should have dismounted sooner. They have immense resources. If they can't do better than Tesla then they deserve to lose their jobs. That may happen. Tesla has some things on their side. On Sun, Nov 15, 2020, 1:57 PM EVDL Administrator via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > On 15 Nov 2020 at 18:33, brucedp5 via EV wrote: > > > Toyota's boss has taken a swipe at Tesla, predicting Elon Musk's > > electric car company will lose out to established motor manufacturers > > as they catch up in battery vehicles > > When you say "electric car" to someone, is it Toyota that the other guy > thinks of? > > In the US, Tesla owns that space in auto buyers' minds, just as Saturn > owned > the "small car" slot in 1990. I think that's less true worldwide, but > they're working on it. > > In any case, if an established automaker does beat out Tesla for EVs in > the > long run, chances are it won't be Toyota. They dropped that ball about 8 > years ago and haven't found it again yet. EV time is running out for > Toyota, especially in Europe and Asia. > > David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey > > To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my > offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > People don't sleep enough, and they all seem to be hunting > something that can't be caught. You think you're the dominant > species just because you go to the bathroom in a bowl instead > of a box. But who's cleaning up after whom? > > -- Souseme, "Felines of New York" > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html > INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20201115/29e6f6f4/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
