Would love to see these in Canada! Need a reliable brand EV at an affordable price.
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Went to the toyota website for Japan and I can't even select EV and/or hybrid as categories to narrow down the search. They have an 'eco' category which includes ICE vehicles. Some are even discontinued. I want to get an EV or at least hybrid at some point (I have a kei car now), but it doesn't look like that will happen here. I'm not interested in BYD as there are no dealerships anywhere near me, nowhere to work on them, and I'm still not convinced about the quality and service in general.
Not gonna lie, sounds awesome appealing. Bring it to the EU, please.
Now if only it were launching at that price in the US.
Buy it in China, ship to America for fees and modifications totaling the original purchase price, still save $15k.
Feel the free hand of the market.
Unless it doesnt meet DOT requirements, it will be illegal to register.
Yeah that's the modification part. There are businesses that specialize in making certain imports street legal but it's usually for luxury vehicles.
I suppose someone might try to make an industry out of it if the idea becomes more than a shitpost.
What does "crashed the server" mean in this context?
After securing over 10,000 orders in just one hour, Toyota boasted again that “the server is overwhelmed.”
10000 doesn't seem like a lot of requests to knock over a server.
It was being run on a Commadore 64.
I stand corrected, it's impressive af
Oh right, that's a satisfactory explanation, thank you.
Toyota is one of the brands from which I would consider buying an EV.
Are Toyota still pursuing hydrogen, or are they mostly all in on batteries now?
They've realized it's an impossible task. Even if they figure out how to not leak it everywhere and not store it at immense pressures hydrogen embrittlement is probably an insurmountable challenge.
Is hydrogen embrittlement really the biggest issue? I think that’s more surmountable than the problem with hydrogen availability, storage, and transport. Seems like you could use stainless, limit the number of parts that touch the hydrogen, limit the fatigue stress they see, and recycle them every now and then just like you’d need to do with a battery. Am I missing something?
Think the idea was to break water down and get hidrogen. Also I respect them for trying something new. Maybe they won't reach their goal but their research is a step forward
In the US? They still ride on the ICE bandwagon.
https://insideevs.com/news/752581/gm-toyota-support-bill-weaken-epa-emissions/
Not sure about development directions, but they currently have regular hybrids, plug in hybrids, battery EVs, hydrogen EVs...
I don't think the infrastructure is there yet for hydrogen to be viable, so I don't really consider those.
Before the hydrogen infrastructure is there, you'll have battery chargers in every parking spot.