Doggydogworld
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No, LOL, it's not 31 million "miles". They've sold ~400k cars so far. If each one swaps weekly that's 20 million swaps a year.
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The demise of the OEMs
- Thread starter Buckminster
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28-46 Nick discusses the competition:
He is bullish on Toyota and Tesla but not much else.
Autocar actually like it...
Driven: Toyota's manual gearbox for electric cars | Autocar
Maybe we need to thank Toyota for converting a few extra petrol heads that want their Toyota to sound like a VW GTi...
Driven: Toyota's manual gearbox for electric cars | Autocar
Maybe we need to thank Toyota for converting a few extra petrol heads that want their Toyota to sound like a VW GTi...
Ford unlocks thousands of new charging stations with an unlikely partner
Owners of Ford's Mustang Mach-E and F-150 Lightning electric vehicles who have had a bit of trouble, are going to have a much easier time finding a place to charge their machines, thanks to a rival in their segment. Following a previous statement made in May, Ford announced in a statement on...finance.yahoo.com
So Elon’s really secret master plan is:
- osborne the competition’s EVs by enticing them to support NACS
- while at the same time driving prices down so that the competition looses even more money per EV they make
- so stalling the progress of the competition for a couple of years
- so that Tesla can 2x their economies of scale by the time the competition has NACS capable cars.
- so that the competition has to fire their UAW personnel.
How close am I?
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Toyota's August global output rises on stronger domestic production
Toyota Motor said global production climbed 4% from the same period a year earlier to 798,771 vehicles to mark a record for the month of August.www.reuters.com
Toyota on track to smash its annual production record – report
Toyota looks set to break its annual production record, with expectations it will build more than 10 million cars in 2023.www.drive.com.au
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Toyota's Global Sales And Output Hit Record High in August Amid Robust Local Production
Toyota Motors (TM) global sales in August reached an all-time high, on the back of record output driven by enhanced supply conditions and heightened demand.www.investopedia.com
Toyota raises its outlook as strong hybrid demand juices profits
Toyota profit more than doubled for the quarter due in large part to demand for the Prius and other hybrids, as well as favorable currency factors.
www.cnbc.com
I finished my 2nd and final day at Japan Mobility Show Web Site 2023. The line to get in was nuts. I posted a video of it atToyota raises its outlook as strong hybrid demand juices profits
Toyota profit more than doubled for the quarter due in large part to demand for the Prius and other hybrids, as well as favorable currency factors.
FWIW, as I've mentioned, Japan isn't a strong EV market at all (BEVs make a up a tiny share of the passenger automobile market: Japan EV sales just 2% of domestic market, trailing China and Europe). If the crowds to get in and and the various ICEV makers's booths are any indication, ICEV is alive and well here in Japan. That said, there was way more EV emphasis at Japan Mobility Show 2023 than the last time the show was held (formerly known as Tokyo Motor Show) in 2019, which I attended too... but still. TOKYO MOTOR SHOW WEB SITE has some historical info.
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Back to the above show, if you click thru the various halls at Japan Mobility Show Web Site, you can get an idea of who was exhibiting and booth size. The major automakers were at Japan Mobility Show Web Site and Japan Mobility Show Web Site (East Halls 1 thru 6). Renault had a tiny presence with a small booth, just 3 cars and nothing fancy at all compared to the big money being spent by the major Japanese automakers.
OT: I'm guessing UAW deals will raise costs for Detroit. Will they be able to raise prices? - Autoblog and may have been posted elsewhere.
OT: I'm guessing UAW deals will raise costs for Detroit. Will they be able to raise prices? - Autoblog and may have been posted elsewhere.
I saw this and was quite surprised. A 65% of franchised dealerships refuse to sell a used EV. Their policy is to wholesale them.
They use "battery history" as an excuse but most are still under the original manufacturers 8 year warranty.
Used EVs: Another Storm Cloud Ahead for Mass EV Adoption
Used-BEV values are dropping like a stone and over half of franchised dealers are refusing to retail them.www.wardsauto.com
These are the same dealers that are likely holding back legacy automakers new EV sales.
There is probably a business opportunity here.
Don't laugh.
“Tesla Needs To Close The Gap With Us," Says BMW On New Cylindrical Battery Cells
The first samples of BMW's new batteris started rolling off the production line at the company’s cell manufacturing complex in Germany.insideevs.com
BMW says they'll start delivering these new cells 2 years from now. So we'll see who's catching who.
"With all this being said, however, BMW’s new cells aren’t quite ready for prime time yet. For now, sample units are being manufactured at the company’s own facility, with delivery-intent cells slated to be made at up to six battery gigafactories around the world by BMW’s suppliers CATL and Eve Energy starting in 2025. That’s when the first series-production EVs based on the Neue Klasse architecture are set to debut."