Re: EAC receives its first six electric cars (CMail article..)
Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2017 10:47 pm
Incidentally, even Trump is indirectly sponsoring electric vehicle development:
Toyota takes stake in Mazda, links up for $1.6 billion U.S. plant
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-toyo ... SKBN1AK0RF
[...] Analysts said the plan was more than a political ploy. The alliance is also an attempt to catch up with rivals in the race for electric car technology, as tighter global emissions rules loom, along with the entry of new players into the market.
"There will be new rivals appearing - Apple, Google - these are IT companies, we also need to compete with them, too," Toyota President Akio Toyoda, grandson of the company's founder, told a news conference in Tokyo.
He was appointed last year to lead Toyota's newly formed electric car division, flagging the group's commitment to a technology it has been slow to embrace.
"What's different from the past is that there are no nautical charts for us to follow. It's without precedent," he said of the push into alternatives to the internal combustion engine.
Other traditional automakers such as Daimler and BMW are also weighing how best to work on new, disruptive technology, from electric vehicles to autonomous driving, that require hefty investment and have turned firms like Google and Tesla into rivals.
Toyota has set a goal for all of its vehicles to be zero emission by 2050. But until recently, it has said it favoured EVs for short-distance commuting, given their limited driving range and lengthy charging time. [...]
Are you still doubting that there is both political will and economic drive to get away from combustion engines? We sent a man to the moon a long time ago - this perceived challenge pales in significance to that I think...
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Toyota takes stake in Mazda, links up for $1.6 billion U.S. plant
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-toyo ... SKBN1AK0RF
[...] Analysts said the plan was more than a political ploy. The alliance is also an attempt to catch up with rivals in the race for electric car technology, as tighter global emissions rules loom, along with the entry of new players into the market.
"There will be new rivals appearing - Apple, Google - these are IT companies, we also need to compete with them, too," Toyota President Akio Toyoda, grandson of the company's founder, told a news conference in Tokyo.
He was appointed last year to lead Toyota's newly formed electric car division, flagging the group's commitment to a technology it has been slow to embrace.
"What's different from the past is that there are no nautical charts for us to follow. It's without precedent," he said of the push into alternatives to the internal combustion engine.
Other traditional automakers such as Daimler and BMW are also weighing how best to work on new, disruptive technology, from electric vehicles to autonomous driving, that require hefty investment and have turned firms like Google and Tesla into rivals.
Toyota has set a goal for all of its vehicles to be zero emission by 2050. But until recently, it has said it favoured EVs for short-distance commuting, given their limited driving range and lengthy charging time. [...]
Are you still doubting that there is both political will and economic drive to get away from combustion engines? We sent a man to the moon a long time ago - this perceived challenge pales in significance to that I think...
A.
Or if you wanto to get serious, a Jackel....environmentalist would hate it....
