A quarter century ago, Toyota's legal tantrums worked for them here in the US, and their more recent whining about how tough EVs are for them has helped to keep Japan well behind the EU and China in EV adoption. *
If Toyota had spent that money and effort on actually developing EVs, they might have something decent by now. They're running out of time to develop a good EV *and* a good rep as an EV company. They're going to need both to carry on with selling cars in France, Germany, Norway and the UK, because all of those nations have plans to ban the sale of ICEVs between 2030 and 2040. Toyota's execs are apparently determined to cling to their sinking Prius until they drown. * The numbers, in case you're curious: Japanese EV/PHEV sales in 2020 were down 28% from 2019, while in the EU they rose 137% (!) and in China they were up 12%. Even the US did better than 2019 with a 4% increase. 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 = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Nothing is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. -- Martin Luther King Jr = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
