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Lots of EV news out of Toyota this morning. First, & perhaps most importantly, Toyota & Subaru have announced a joint venture to develop a Class C SUV BEV platform, with each company creating their own vehicle from the platform. This is a small part of "Aiming to Popularize BEVs"
Moving automotive production takes years of planning. Not a month.
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Fast Forward to 2025: Toyota has made Karashi Yellow available for the U.S. Nightshade Prius.🚗🟨
Every RAV4 is going to have a 25% tariff on top of the MSRP come January, according to this guy. That will bring the price of a RAV4 Prime base up to $55,000 for American buyers.
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RE- DRIVEN REVIEW: 2024 Toyota Prius Prime SE PHEV = Reduced frills version of current cordable Godfather of Green driving is the mileage champ. roadblazing.com/2024-toyota-… @Toyota #ToyotaPrius #PriusPrime #PHEV #hybrids #pluginhybrid
In case you haven't noticed, momentum for EVs in the marketplace is all but dead, while hybrid interest has skyrocketed. PriusChat traffic is headed back to where it was when gas was $4 a gallon nationwide.
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Not one of the reasons is because he realized he's supposed to be a journalist and not financially in bed with the main company he covers.
I finally did it. I got fully out of $TSLA. Sold all my shares.
I go into details as to why in the article below, but the main reasons are:
- I don't see Tesla as being aligned with the original mission, which was the main reason I invested in the company: to accelerate the advent of electric transport. To be clear, I think Tesla was very successful in this mission, I just don't think that going forward it is a priority for the company.
- I don't trust the leadership anymore, especially Elon Musk and the board of directors.
- There was a big talent exodus at Tesla in the last few years and talent is what makes a company great - to be fair, there are still a lot of great people at Tesla, just lot fewer.
- I feel unaligned with the TSLA shareholder base. When you feel unaligned with your fellow shareholders, you have two options: try to get them on your side or sell. I tried the former and failed.
- Unreleated to Tesla but still a factor: I see signs of a recession coming and I want to be more liquid in case it's a bad one.
You can read the full post on @ElectrekCo below for the full story.
20% of Tesla's gross profit is from regulatory credits. This means that the other manufacturers (ie Toyota) accounted for 1/5 of Tesla's profits. We haven't seen a number that high since back before they had any cars widely available (early Model S days).
Disaster.
A reminder that Toyota didn't want to being that amazing yellow paint color to the US because they thought it would evoke thoughts of a taxi.
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I had the wild idea to turn my Toyota Prius Prime into a hot hatch and @MattHardigree decided to encourage that behavior by having me write about it for @the_autopian.
Check out the project intro here: theautopian.com/im-going-to-…
This is absolutely one of the dumbest trends to come from Muskophiles trying to cover up Tesla's shoddy paint quality.
Nice to see that once you get out of the echo chamber you can return to reality.
