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Toyota once again ranked as worst automaker on climate lobbying globally
They have been the most active in trying to slow the progress of Full electric vehicles for over a decade now. The damage lobbying like that has caused is enormous.
But yes GM and Ford are likely the next worst offenders. Just look at the 100% tarrif on Chinese BEVs. That stops Americans from have access to affordable high quality EVs and forces them to stay in fossil fuel burners or spend more than they can afford to get an EV.
Although VW and co for their Diesel emissions cover up is right up there as well.
This is unfortunately correct. While Toyota slows overconsumption of vehicles and has popularized hybrid vehicles, their lobbying against China in their own business interest remains a problem that overshadows the good they’ve done.
Fighting the Chinese electric vehicle market is a longstanding battle. Automakers know the minute major Chinese brands were able to sell in the US that existing automakers in the market would lose billions overnight.
I’d be curious to learn more about what track causes the biggest environmental impact though, manufacturing one Prius and driving it 12k miles per year for 20 years, or manufactura 2 small electric vehicles and driving them the same distance yearly for 10 years at a time.
Most none biased papers (that take in the full lifecycle of petrol) on it I have read put a long range EV (that's a bigger foot print that a small Chinese ev) crossover in footprint with a Prius at around 30000km. That number will only improve as renewables generation becomes more dominant and the scale of production increases (reducing the indervidual production footprint of each ev) .
So about two years.
Makes sense. The small range Chinese EV’s would likely crush that number even more so. Likely meaning that manufacturing new EV’s for American households every 4-5 years would still be more so sustainable than driving a basic hybrid (and of course even more so a gas vehicle.)
Imo if Toyota can prove their solid state battery solution viable in the future that would still be a game changer. They are likely fighting for tariff’s to keep profits stacking as they wait for their innovation to come to market. It’s kind of the world against China, but ironically of course most of these major automakers are huge customers of Chinese factories.
China is almost 50% of the global market and the Chinese economic zone definitely is. We are lucky here in New Zealand we have a free trade agreement so we have seen some of the vehicles. However the new government is a reactionary one and is trying to slow them as best it can. They won't last.
Chinese made EVs including the Shanghai Tesla's are amazing the quality of production exceeds anything we see from elsewhere. Best seen in the Tesla's the difference between a California model 3 and a Shanghai one is night in day in build quality.
Toyota has consistently lobbied to oppose ICE vehicle phase-outs globally https://lobbymap.org/company/Toyota-Motor/projectlink/Toyota-Motor-In-Climate-Change
Based Toyota. Atleast someone thinks logically. We are in no position to guess when's a good time to phase ICE out. I'm sure once the EV's are more prominent, the ICE will be phases out by market forces.
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Based Toyota. Atleast someone thinks logically. We are in no position to guess when's a good time to phase ICE out. I'm sure once the EV's are more prominent, the ICE will be phases out by market forces.
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They’re also heavily invested in keeping ICEs economically viable for exactly the same reason
Maybe that’s why they don’t make electric cars
They don’t? They make everything but fully electric and if you look at the market you can see why. Most people couldn’t afford luxury electric vehicles and thats the majority of battery electric today.
thats the majority of battery electric today.
Not in China, where $15,000 BEVs are common
About half of those Chinese companies selling electric cars billions in subsidies from their government to go from producing crap to producing purely electric vehicles and they’re not selling them profitably those cars that are being sold for under $10,000 are being sold at loss in some cases.
The $15,000 cars in China are not crap, they are comparable to a Corolla hatchback, https://electrek.co/2024/02/23/byd-launches-new-dolphin-ev-14k-price-war/
More: https://www.rematec.com/news/industry-players-and-markets/bevs-market-this-is-why-china-is-ahead
I didn’t say they are crap now I am saying they went from crap to producing really nice cars. Partly because they stole ip from the car companies the Chinese companies partnered up with and partly because these companies received billions in subsidies from the government to make competitive cars to western countries. I know all about the Chinese market. China doesn’t allow car s to be imported either.
China is also going balls deep electric to try to improve air quality in Beijing but as long as they continue to open new coal power plants to cover the electrification of their cars are they really doing anything other than making them less dependent on oil?
Sorry, they do now but they really waited a long time before releasing anything electric.
The narrative for the longest time was that Toyota would never commit to electric vehicles as they wouldn’t be good for every market.
Even now they only have one electric car, bZ4X, and it starts at $43k.
They’re the first car company to put hybrid on the road and hybrids are part of their lineup in every major arc category, including Trump and in addition they have to be electric vehicles just not focused on batteries, but on hydrogen, which is useful for a transport and long haul trucking
Last year they sold 15 million cars of which 20% were hybrid .
On climate lobbying? Lol
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This is an idiotic article. Toyota produces by far the best selling hybrid car of all time (Prius) and their cars are the most reliable/last the longest. The idea that Toyota as a brand is worse for the environment than Ford, GM, etc. is genuinely laughable.