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> They don't represent an actual plan to produce any of these vehicles. Let's do some reading! The Verge article says, "Toyota is ramping up its electric vehic
by clouddrover 4y ago
> They don't represent an actual plan to produce any of these vehicles.
Let's do some reading! The Verge article says, "Toyota is ramping up its electric vehicle production schedule, vowing to release 30 electric vehicles by 2030 rather than just 15 EVs by 2025, as was previously promised. The Japanese automaker also vowed to sell 3.5 million battery EVs globally by 2030 and to transform Lexus into an EV-only brand by 2035. The company said it would invest 2 trillion yen ($17.6 billion) in battery vehicle technology, an increase over its previous commitment of 1.5 trillion yen ($13.6 billion)."
Sounds like a plan to me.
> Toyota has a single production BEV
No, they have multiple BEVs - the Toyota BZ4X, a Lexus, a China only Toyota small car, a Toyota Proace van. More to come. Toyota produces both BEVs and FCEVs:
https://www.electrive.com/2021/12/03/toyota-presents-roadmap-for-europe-and-the-bz4x/ https://www.electrive.com/2021/12/03/toyota-presents-roadmap...
> But they're only going to make about 7,000 of them
7,000 allocated for the US market. The North American EV market is only one third the size of the European and Chinese EV markets. Toyota will target the bigger markets first, especially when it helps them with their fleet emissions requirements.
Your mistake is to construe this in terms of gang warfare or seeing it like a sport. Toyota doesn't care about that.
Toyota just wants to sell cars. ICE, BEV, FCEV, they don't care and they will do it all.