'if Japan is too hasty in banning gasoline-powered cars, “the current business model of the car industry is going to collapse,” causing the loss of millions of

'if Japan is too hasty in banning gasoline-powered cars, “the current business model of the car industry is going to collapse,” causing the loss of millions of jobs'. This Toyota article is one year old. France is realizing the same potential disaster is on the horizon: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/stellantis-warns-of-car-market-collapse-if-evs-dont-get-cheaper/ar-AAYZXp3 https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/stellantis-warns-of-ca... The reality is that Asia has a huge advantage in BEV manufacture and also owns large chunks of Africa where the rare earth minerals are. I suspect personal transportation is being phased out for the average person, only the elites will have access to vehicles. The rest of us will have to rely on electric bicycles and pre permissioned autonomous buggy travel. The BEV trapped energy thermal runaway fire risks, recycling challenges and grid inadequacies issues are not going to be solved anytime soon.