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The Japanese still have their heads in the sand regarding EVs, it’s not surprising.
Which is ironic given the headstart they had on lithium cells. But making ICE was more profitable so.. they keep doing that.
But Korea has been smashing it!
While I'll continue to drive my Tesla, if I were forced to pick one, it'd like be a Korean EV. Europe is still very behind on tech.
Some think hydrogen is the way to go which is why. I still don't buy that. It sucks even living here trying to figure out which vehicle to buy when my current one craps out. Electric would be great since I drive only once or twice a week and not long distance save 1-2 trips to see family a year. I don't want to buy a Chinese EV, but I doubt there will be any remaining options in a few years
I try to buy domestic products wherever possible. I very rarely buy western brands of anything
Several are made in japan Some of the components may not be. This is why I said I try to buy domestic. I will not let perfect be the enemy of good
I've lived in Japan for the last decade plus and plan to continue doing so for the rest of my life.
Nissan Leaf is a good option in the newer generations that have active battery temperature management.
Toyota and Honda still lead sales because they build cars people actually buy. Toyota has been selling hybrids since 1997.
These companies don't have a government or delusional investors propping them up with no expectations of profit.
Yeah they should definitely toss out the quality and reliability they're known for and start pumping out $2000 EVs, so that I can buy a new car every year after scrapping the last one and feel good about doing my part to protect the enviromment.
Doesn’t matter how good they make them if they go out of business because they don’t sell what the world wants. Honda and Nissan are already collapsing. Even Toyota has dropped about 4%.
So should they cut quality, cut safety regulations, use slave labor, cut environmental regulations, and dump all their tax dollars into subsidizing your car purchase in order to put themselves on more equal footing with China? You're advocating for a race to the bottom so that you can consume more cheap junk.
If you want to see the result of beliefs such as yours, we can once again look to Walmart and what it has done to the local economy of every single rural community that it has moved into.
You are missing the point, how about they just make a good EV? BMW seems to be able to build good ones, why can’t the Japanese?
BMW builds good cars? Is this new? Their EVs are junk 12 minutes after warranty which is why they are almost free used.
Really? I’m a BMW tech and have NEVER seen a degraded battery. Including from the original i3 and i8.
You literally just said "it doesnt matter how good they make them." If they did have a good EV, you'd complain that it was too expensive. If they cut the cost and quality, you'd complain that it wasn't worth buying. They can't beat China at this game without using all the same tricks I mentioned in my previous comment. Nobody in the world can do that.
Why do they need a good EV at this very moment? Worldwide, EVs only make up 20% of new car sales. Their hybrids outsell EVs 3 to 1 here in the US. They're about to release their solid state batteries and manufacture EVs this coming year with double the range of the current technology. They've also been exploring additional alternatives such as hydrogen fuel cells. What's the rush, exactly? How is that "having their heads buried in the sand?"
Are you arguing that they would be better suited to have dumped tens of billions of dollars trying to "keep up with the Jones's" by developing the same bleeding edge technology in parallel with everyone else? Would they be kings of the automotive world witn something like the Nissan Leaf in their fleet? I seriously doubt it.
Because it doesn’t matter if they are good or not, if they don’t build ANY was my point. And solid state battery LOL’s, Toyota has been saying that for 10 years.
They do build some- the bZ4x, Murai, and Prius plug-in. See you will complain regardless of what they do.
They've been saying what for 10 years?
That solid state batteries are “coming out next year”.
Bullshit. Toyota never promised SS batteries before 2027.