The world's largest automaker is also one of the slowest to introduce true EVs. Actually, it seems as if they don't want ANYONE to offer EVs, so even as they claim to be developing them, they're actively working against them.
> The world´s largest automaker has quietly spent the past decade > building a powerful U.S. influence operation to try to delay the EV > transition. It is bankrolling an army of climate denying lawmakers and > lobbying aggressively against emissions and fuel economy standards. ... > > Over the last three electoral cycles, Toyota has become the top auto > industry financier of climate deniers, with its political action > committee spending $808,500 to support climate deniers, ahead of > General Motors at $670,000 and more than double Ford´s expenditure of > $387,500. ... > > Moreno said that "the winner in this whole thing [eliminating the > $7,500 federal rebate for EVs] will probably be Toyota because they > were the one company that said, `We´re just not going to do that.´" ... > > In 2022, InfluenceMap named Toyota the third worst company in the > world - after Chevron and Exxon - for its anti-climate lobbying. ... > > In the summer of 2022, Japan was set to phase out the sale of > polluting combustion engine vehicles by 2035-a few months before > California made that historic commitment. But at the last minute, Akio > Toyoda, then Toyota´s CEO, met Akira Amari, a key official from > Japan´s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and intervened to ensure that > the government did not fully ban fossil-fueled cars. ... > Toyota´s longtime CEO Akio Toyoda, who led his grandfather´s company > for almost 14 years before stepping down in April 2023, is well-known > for his deep dislike of EVs. ...In 2023, fewer than 1% of the 11.2 > million vehicles that Toyota sold were fully electric, far behind the > global average of 11.1%. Much more detail in the full story: https://www.citizen.org/article/driving-denial-how-toyotas-unholy-alliance- with-climate-deniers-threatens-climate-progress/ Or https://cntp.me/pAgtTqv David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Some people, when confronted with a computer programming problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems. -- Jamie Zawinski = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
