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Thinking about the engineering, they squandered a tremendous lead. Look what they had on the road, mass produced in 1997: the electric propulsion, control, sto
by imglorp 5y ago
Thinking about the engineering, they squandered a tremendous lead. Look what they had on the road, mass produced in 1997: the electric propulsion, control, storage, and regen. If you squint, they solved the hard problems engineering problems already; just take away the gas part to make a full plugin EV.
This smells more like a business problem. Maybe they can't scale the battery deals they need, big enough and fast enough.
- sangnoir 5y agoToyota bet on Hydrogen, and that bet has failed to pay off.
- dzhiurgis 5y ago> Maybe they can't scale the battery deals My thinking is the same. If they can't make 10 million cars per year, they won't bother with 100k. Tesla is just about to approach 1m cars per year and they are using up majority of worlds batteries.