Featured BEVs More Polluting Than ICE Vehicles, According To Toyoda

I have personally seen this to have a great effect on many in my circle and amplified far beyond that. And not even considering politics or any other "in-your-face" stuff here, rather education through friendly encounters and action through inspiration that comes from trust of friendship and colleagues.

It's true, the individual effects are lost in the noise, but what follows is much more.

 

Well I need to review his comments.
But for America he needs to realize Political Correctness + Technical Correctness + US Automakers/Congress + Green stock Investors holders.

Bottom line Congress will do what they want to do by popular demand in the US, not Japan, which may not be what Toyota thinks is correct for Japan or the rest of world.

We are going to take a path the Congress feels is most advantageous for USA, which is not necessarily the correct path, nor the same path others take. Example USA uses corn ethanol E10, EU uses biodiesel from rapeseed oil (Canola oil), and we can debate if those are net better for environment. To each his own.

 

While I mostly agree with this, congress doesn't make decisions based on what's most advantageous for the the US, but with a small number of exceptions, they make decisions based on what's most advantageous for the political careers of the incumbent, which has been devastating to our country over time.

 

doing a satellite map / flyover look at japan buildings, they have a significant amount of PV on roof tops. Between that & wind farms - if they incorporate the giant battery back ups that stabilize good swaths of Australia & the Hawaiian island of Kauai, that kind of renewable solution can keep things running much more smoothly.
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Hybrids make a lot of sense but not so popular in USA.
Partly we don't want to let Mr. Toyoda eat our lunch.
Globally we may see more reliance on hybrids.

 

What is Toyoda-san going to do with all the mountains of brown coal ash created from running those expensive but 'clean' hydrogen cars .... as opposed BEV's (that japanese can charge overnight on a 100 volts) that toyoda-san hates so passionately ...... while claiming their grid is too unstable. Funny, it doesn't seem to affect stability with everyone running their air conditioners that will often use even more power.

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