Opinion | Industry’s last great electric-car skeptic accepts the inevitable

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Opinion by Charles Lane: Industry’s last great electric-car skeptic accepts the inevitable

devote billions of dollars to that goal. It should also be acknowledged that Toyoda was speaking out of self-interest: By holding out for a variety of fuel-efficient propulsion systems, rather than an all-EV approach, he was trying to protect his company’s investments in its Prius and other gas-electric hybrids, along with hydrogen fuel cell technology.Still, Toyoda undeniably knows a lot about cars — how they work, how they’re made and why people buy them.

Toyoda’s caution also probably reflects his awareness that even his company’s technological savvy and manufacturing prowess did not immunize it against failure: There was aSome day, perhaps, Toyoda will be proven wrong — or get to say “I told you so.” For now, though, political leaders such as Gov. Kathy Hochul , are in the driver’s seat. She

 

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Their is almost zero infrastructure to support this most Let the suckers first in line buy and listen to the sob stories

Electric vehicles were around in the 1870s there's a reason they didn't catch on...

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