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'We Will Not Survive': Toyota Boss Wants Japanese Automakers To Team Up To Beat Chinese EVs (insideevs.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [M] to c/electricvehicles@slrpnk.net
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Toyota boss has a radical solution to catch up to Chinese automakers, which are eating its lunch worldwide. Will it work?

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[–] 55 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Aww, did somebody leapfrog you technologically because you refused to change??

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Last I heard they were claiming BEVs were an interim technology and everyone was going to move from them to hydrogen.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Which that premise always made me laugh. The distribution system for hydrogen would be insane to install. Electric is nearly ubiquitous and you can add in chargers much easier than hydrogen infrastructure. Not to mention you still have the energy conversion loss factor from making, storing and transporting hydrogen vs riding the existing electric infrastructure.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Hydrogen only makes sense to Japan. They have no natural resources for lithium batteries. But plentiful of cheap electricity to convert water to hydrogen. So for japan to be energy independent, hydrogen does make a lot of sense.

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