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Toyota’s chairman doubles down on his electric car skepticism, forecasting that EV adoption will peak at just 30% (fortune.com)
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Akio Toyoda, Toyota Motor’s chairman, has never been a huge fan of battery electric vehicles. Last October, as global sales of EVs started to slow down amid macroeconomic uncertainty, Toyoda crowed that people are “finally seeing reality” on EVs. Now, the auto executive is doubling down on his bearish forecast, boldly predicting that just three in 10 cars on the road will be powered by a battery.

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“The enemy is CO2,” Toyoda said, proposing a “multi-pathway approach” that doesn’t rely on any one type of vehicle. “Customers, not regulations or politics” should make the decision on what path to rely on, he said.

The auto executive estimated that around a billion people still live in areas without electricity, which limits the appeal of a battery electric vehicle. Toyoda estimated that fully electric cars will only capture 30% of the market, with the remainder taken up by hybrids or vehicles that use hydrogen technology.

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[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 9 months ago

When a powertrain wears out, a replacement ice will cost a person $2000 for an engine and $1600 labor. That 300 lb engine could sit on a shelf in a warehouse for 5 years or 30 years and still be an engine that works well. You want to spend a few grand more and you can make that old engine that's in working condition, essentially brand new.

You leave a 1000 lb battery pack stored for 5 years and left alone it's ruined. 30 years it's ruined no matter what. Can't just be pulled from a junkyard and taken home. It's too large and heavy. Cost an arm and a leg to get delivered to an independent shop. Not to mention the equipment needed to manipulate around 1000 lb battery packs, so no one can self replace these things. The packs can't be made new. They degrade with age, used or not. They cost more and they lose more value and only people with a house and garage can conveniently charge them.

[-] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

None of what you're saying is relevant to my point. You can lift the entire frame, using a regular 4 point auto lift, and drop it onto the battery pack slightly elevated off the ground. If you don't have that, a couple of pallet jacks to roll the pack under the car, I mean come on! Where's your creativity?

There are differences between ICE cars and EVs, most importantly tremendous power from zero RPM, & zero CO2 from the vehicle. Why would you think different tech should be equivalent? 🤦

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