Featured Akio Toyoda looking for half of sales from electric powered vehicles

A litle more details about Toyota plans of electrificatins:
Toyota Aims for Sales of More Than 5.5 Million Electrified Vehicles Including 1 Million Zero-Emission Vehicles per Year by 2030 | CORPORATE | TOYOTA Global Newsroom

- Electrified vehicles to be available across the entire Toyota and Lexus line-up by around 2025
- Toyota will accelerate the popularization of BEVs with more than 10 BEV models to be available worldwide by the early 2020s
- Toyota also aims to expand its PHEV line-up in the 2020s
- Toyota has been actively developing next-generation solid-state batteries and aims to commercialize the technology by the early 2020s

 

test purpose? guessing - to see if there's a correlation between voltage drop & amperage increase? wouldn't a 5-30 variable amperage test be just as valid/noticable at home in our garage on our 240 L2?
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This may help: http://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/dccircuits/dcp_7.html

Two metrics will let us figure out the resistance of the circuit breaker, wire, EVSE, and wire splices. I'm just curious.

Bob Wilson

 

I'll see what I can do -
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To make any large inroads in the US, Toyota needs to stop classifying Hybrids and FCVs as something different than cars and trucks. Most people shop for a car or truck. Much fewer consider something categorized differently.

They also need to renegotiate the contracts with the private distributors removing their choice of not selling or servicing a Toyota branded vehicle. The current situation with the Prius Prime should not be repeated.

 

Agree.

Unfortunately, the brand sites I recall throwing their hybrid or PHEV in with the rest of their cars have gone to a separate grouping as the number of models increase. Toyota's site does let you compare hybrid to ICE under the specs page..

As long as the US is stuck with independent car dealers that rely on service departments for profits, they will push back against any technology that threatens that revenue. Part of GM not supporting plug in infrastructure could have been to appease dealers when they brought out the Bolt.

 

Another equally big barrier - Toyota (& ALL manufacturers) sales Critters. Most know nothing of plugin tech - & try their hardest to sell you their usual - a sedan, suv or pickup. No point in manufacturing a million if the stealerships are dead set in swaying towards something else.
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From what I've found, if a Chevy dealer wants to sell Bolts, they have to set up a charging station that's accessible to owners. I've seen level 2s and DC chargers at some of the dealerships.

 

There are a few good sales critters though. I am sure my Gen 1 owner sales critter will study the Prime if they have one available. Unfortunately, Virginia is not a CARB state.
He spent a lot of time going over the Gen 4 Prius features before our test drive.