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Lately I'm more and more convinced that the challenge is not doing a thing, the challenge is scaling it up. Doing a thing is a necessity for moving forward, but
by glogla 3y ago
Lately I'm more and more convinced that the challenge is not doing a thing, the challenge is scaling it up. Doing a thing is a necessity for moving forward, but scaling it up is how you change the world.
On one hand, Toyota is pretty good at scaling things up. On the other hand, they have not shown scaling it up, they have shown doing a thing.
We'll have to see. The time is running out.
- simondotau 3y ago> they have shown doing a thing. What they showed is a bench experiment. What they need is a battery which is proven capable in an EV — in terms of resilience, power handling, environmental tolerances, etc. The challenge is scaling THAT up.
- SyzygistSix 3y agoThey haven't been very good about scaling up production of their Prime vehicles. Lots of people would love to buy them and have for years.
- dev_tty01 3y agoThey have sold hybrids at scale, lots of similar components, so no reason to think they can't scale when they have a design they are ready to produce. Toyota runs a huge global car manufacturing company that is known for quality and shipping a lot of cars. They know how to scale. Toyota reminds me of Microsoft when the internet went mainstream. Very slow to respond, but once they got their giant tanker turned in the right direction they were all in. I suspect Toyota will be the same.