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  1. el Crucero

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    Tesla won't allow Supercharger access, for pay or not, until other companies provide reciprocal agreements to Tesla for a comparable Supercharger network. Other companies are reluctant to do that because of the staggering cost for infrastructure. They are shooting themselves in the foot (or zapping themselves in the trunk).

    Or they may not easily change and even more countries get aboard the bandwagon and embrace the FUTURE.
    I agree, I wish Toyota had stuck with their BEV program and be an industry leader today. This decision to abandon their BEV program will go down in history as the biggest failure in management in the failure to recognize a trend (along with the atrocious designers who head their design department). Where is Toyota's BEV product for sale today?
     
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    Abandoning pure electric vehicles at the time for a hydrogen preference made sense for Japan at the time - and in Toyota's thinking. Fukushima happened. Electricity was not a cheap commodity, thinking all nukes would have to come off line. People and even countries make decisions based on their Geographics & knowledge at the time. Pv solar & wind as well as battery backups are becoming more in vogue - as well as their prices are prices dropping dramatically. All the different dynamics are causing a rethink for the island country, devoid of most natural resources. That's made evident by Toyota finally becoming amicable to building electric cars.

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    Toyota and Japan had the same commodity as the rest of the world, it's called the SUN. Japan is the country of the rising sun. It was a boneheaded error on the part of Toyota upper management not to recognize this.
    What is Toyota's BEV? Are there even any concept pictures? Now they are years behind the competition.
     
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    See Jalopnik: Tesla Model 3 Teardown By Engineering Firm Reveals Quality Flaws Like 'A Kia In The '90s' http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIw3c3XzTc

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    Yeah, I already saw that. I had trouble determining what he called a flaw. For example, he said the door handles were hard to use and then he demonstrated by opening the door easily. I have tried the door handles a number of times and they are quite easy to use. FWIW, the reviewer's biggest clients are the big three automakers.
     
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    bob posted this a few days ago. The old guys' grip was the emergency power disconnect (& body part gaps) - which was determined to be adequate for 1st responders. That's determined bt DOT. The old guy isn't an emergency responder - & his satisfaction doesn't sell magazines - does it.
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