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Jalopnik: Toyota 'woke' to 'sudden surge' in EV demand

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  1. Old Bear

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    Following up on my previous post about a Car and Driver story on Toyota's accelerated plans for more EVs, here is a link to a related article in Jalopnik:

    Toyota Woke Up in 2019 to Realize People had 'Sudden' Urge for Electric Cars

    Rafael Orlove writes:

    "I would say that today is Tuesday, June 11, 2019, but it appears that if you’re a major automaker or automotive researcher, apparently it’s the mid 2000s. I guess everyone woke up this morning and realized that electric cars are a thing. Maybe they’d been napping!"
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    He concludes that regulation and competition may be as much a factor in Toyota's strategy as any newly-discovered "sudden urge" in demand for electric vehicles.
     
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    schja01 One of very few in Chicagoland

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    Maybe it’s ios but your message mostly doesn’t render on my iPad or iPhone. FWIW.
     
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    Tideland Prius Moderator of the North
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    It renders correctly on my iPhone.

    It’s basically regulations that’s twisting Toyota’s arm.
     
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    Something when wrong when I posted it. I immediately saw a huge amount of HTML which I cannot explain. I quickly used the edit function to delete the HTML garbage (which was pages and pages long) and fix the message. . . . So you and Tideland Prius are both right!
     
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    schja01 One of very few in Chicagoland

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    Much better. Thanks.
     
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    mostly chinese regulation. if we're the benefactor before i die, all the better
     
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    It's an known issue with Jalopnik articles. Since the garbage doesn't show up until after it is posted, I've taken to just posting the article title for them.
     
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    I’ve always wanted to ask the Toyota engineers or presenters which did they think would be invented first for home use: a DC Charging station or a hydrogen refilling station capable of 700bar?


    Unsupervised!
    iPhone ?
     
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    Can we call this the "power surge?" :rolleyes:
     
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