No, it actually is "heel-dragging from a latecomer whose first electric car was met with a lukewarm reception"... The Toyoda grandson of the founder was retire

No, it actually is "heel-dragging from a latecomer whose first electric car was met with a lukewarm reception"... The Toyoda grandson of the founder was retired because he said the world needed to rethink the transition to EVs due to the impact they would have on Japanese auto factory workers (and of course, the people that make money off of those workers). Japan has the lowest EV adoption in the first world. For a country with 0 petroleum, you would think they would be more eager. But Japan, for all of it's renowned innovation, is actually very top down driven, and nothing happens unless it's going to benefit incumbent wealth/power. They actually still advocate for tobacco use, because diet members own the tobacco industry after it was privatized in the '90s...