While delaying the uptake of EVs.
It was to stop people buying other EVs.
https://www.toyota-europe.com/news/2022/prototype-corolla-cr...
Toyota's big enough that they can try everything. It isn't a conspiracy.
I have never seen a hydrogen filling station.
The amount of infrastructure required to build out a hydrogen filling network is astronomical, and it has absolutely no chance of working. They’re just saying random stuff so you don’t buy an EV today.
If you don't want to build infrastructure then the easy solution is to stick with petroleum. That infrastructure is already built out.
> They’re just saying random stuff
No, they're doing research and development.
> so you don’t buy an EV
Toyota's a big car company. Toyota sells lots of different cars.
Toyota sells BEVs. You can buy a Toyota BEV right now.
- When they make announcements about a new supercar they're going to make, it's not to stop you from buying a Lambo. Car companies have to be seen to be working on something new; it generates PR, which generates goodwill, advertises the brand, and helps buoy the stock price.
- Buy an ICE vehicle now because they might make an EV later? Why not buy an EV now and then buy Toyota's EV later? Either way you're buying two cars??
They’re making announcements about something they hope they can invent, but that doesn’t exist. They’re telling you to hold off on purchasing today.
But it's a Chinese company's platform they build on with Chinese batteries.
Kind of embarrassing really, that even when they sell EVs they can't build them.
Almost all of the EVs are losing big money, bilions.
Even from a moral highground, the world is in no shortage of EVs, and they do sell PHEVs.
Whether they can smoothly transition to a full BEV future, that's another story, nobody knows.
They could very well have a full decade of gas car gold rush ahead.