Toyota is an oil lobbyist. Why would they support evs? They can't even make one good ev, and they complain like a baby. All they do is spread false information on evs and make misleading advertisements "beyond zero." Evs are the future. it's not something up for debate. The market is rapidly moving toward ev adoption, and that's proof enough.
Sp this is actually fact.. the materials needed to make battery is stupid as he says.. BUT!!! The pollution they spew out when making a single electric car is far more.. its dangerously much higher compared to thousands of cars.. dont believe it? Try to have the companies producing electric cars Like Tesla, BMW, Toyota etc prove you wrong.. next thing you know you will be shutdown by an army of lawyers demanding you stop your pursuit of this nonsense and threatening with suing you for this and that.. now if its nonsense.. why an army of lawyers and not just show the proper paperwork proving it is in fact nonsense and why the threats?
Toyota is always right. Lol How about we just use what we already have and stop making junk? Just start making old simple cars again without all.the bullshit and junk, design them to run on biofuels or E85.
Toyota is eaying what me and millions of intelligent people have been saying for years. Electric vehicles cost more, do more damage and last a shorter period of time. Electric vehicles aren't new, infact they are older than internal combustion cars. Several of the earliest cars were electric and we went with the better, cheaper, more productive, higher efficiency, reliable Internal combustion for a reason.
This is mostly true due to the fact that car batteries are made of a variety of materials far more complex to mine than drilling for oil and far more complex to create than refining oil. Not to mention the lifetime of the batteries atm isn't great... I'm not an oil bro but the idea that electric vehicles as they are currently engineered are the solution to our problems only works if you are analyzing their footprint after they roll off the assembly line.
I will also add that one of the best and usually not discussed value-adds of electric/hybrid vehicles is the use of regenerative braking (which also significantly reduces wear on brake pads). This is very important to their efficiency as it allows a large percentage of the energy put into the vehicle to get it going to be returned when the vehicle comes to a stop. This is likely why the argument for hybrid is so strong as it combines the energy density of oil with the efficiency added from regenerative breaking. Also minimizes the footprint of the battery pack as it isn't abused to accelerate the car quickly (doesn't receive as much wear as 100% electric) and doesn't need as much volume to store energy from regenerative braking (reducing weight as well). Hopefully that helps some people understand...
hydrogen ICE exists now, but the trick is transporting and containing all the hydrogen fuel, which must be shipped cryogenically, not with pipelines etc, and leaks slowly through most tanks and just about every seal, including into parking garages where it collects in high spaces and can combust
