Toyota Electric Car News From Japan Mobility Show
Toyota had an array of new concepts at the Japan Mobility Show this week. One of them could be a blockbuster if it goes into production.
Toyota had an array of new concepts at the Japan Mobility Show this week. One of them could be a blockbuster if it goes into production.
Toyota thinks range is less important to potential EV buyers than price. Are they right?
Toyota says it will introduce an electric car with a solid state battery for long range and quick recharging capability to the Japanese market by 2022. Is that a good thing?
A prominent Toyota representative recently made the comment that the main reason that Toyota isn’t developing any wide-release battery-electric vehicles is that no one wants one. And that’s why the company is pushing ahead with its hydrogen fuel cell technology. Wait, what? So, no one is asking for a Toyota BEV? … [continued]
EV news buffet below. Eat it up. Lumilor is showing off a luminescent Tesla Model S in order to advertise its electroluminescent coating system. (EV Obsession | GAS2) There are now 250,000 electric cars on US road. Any guesses how long until we hit half a million? (EV Obsession) Yamaha has filed a … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. A new report by by Zentrums für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung Baden-Württemberg (ZSW), which Green Car Congress somehow ran across, shows that the number of plug-in cars on the roads more than doubled from the end of 2012 to the end of 2013. That followed doubling of the number … [continued]
I love putting together the monthly electric car sales reports. I love statistics, I love spreadsheets, I love charts, and I love electric cars. But there’s one thing that frustrates me every time — looking at the sales of electric cars that are “on the market” but available almost nowhere. … [continued]