Toyota's confusion

[vickh]

Nokia! BlackBerry!

Xerox, Kodak, Polaroid etc..

 

[ZoomsansVroom]

A) If batteries keep collapsing in price/progress is made in Zinc batteries, EVs get very attractive for the lower end.

B) Natural gas fuel cells have also made huge increases. A CNG fuel cell, driving an electric drivetrain, would be very good.

 

[S'toon]

Toyota never made a diesel FJ.
Try again.

<shrug> I don't know. It's not important. It's not as if I obsessed over it. Friend owed me money, I took his vehicle.

I always just said it was an '81 diesel Land Cruiser.

 

[ricohman]

Toyota never made a diesel FJ.

<shrug> I don't know. It's not important. It's not as if I obsessed over it. Friend owed me money, I took his vehicle.

I always just said it was an '81 diesel Land Cruiser.

So you really have no idea about Land Cruisers. Fair enough.

 

[S'toon]

So you really have no idea about Land Cruisers. Fair enough.

I knew how to drive it, how to fill it, how to put in the oil, how to refill the brake fluid, how to change the flat tires, how to replace the air filter. Took it into the shop when the clutch burned out, took it into the shop when the emergency brake froze and wouldn't work, took it into the shop when the pipe to the muffler rusted through, took it into the shop when the electrical system burned out and the cops pulled me over for having no tail lights. Other miscellaneous stuff.

I wasn't a fanboi.

 

[Knightshade]

Toyota never made a diesel FJ.
Try again.

They did make 40 series diesels, just not an "FJ" since those all got gas engines... the BJ40 got diesels though... HJ40s too.

His would have to be a B since he said 4 cylinder....

 

[coleAK]

Toyota never made a diesel FJ.
Try again.

Not for North America but Toyota did make diesels for Aus, Middle East, and Africa. Technically I think they were J42’s. Icon do a j40 Cummins conversion, I have a buddy with one.

 

[ricohman]

They did make 40 series diesels, just not an "FJ" since those all got gas engines... the BJ40 got diesels though... HJ40s too.

His would have to be a B since he said 4 cylinder....

Oh yes. I have owned over a dozen F, 2F, B, 3B and 2H.
Just pointing out that Toyota never made an FJ with a diesel. I bet the OP doesn't know the series diesel he had, or much about it.
Or that a nice 3B 40 can sell for 40k+.

 

[tschmidty]

He also says regulation may be the only driver of hydrogen fuel cells, which the No.1 Japanese automaker is a keen proponent of. “It’s going to be difficult for us to continue to push” fuel cells as “it’s difficult to see if and when we’re ever going to reach peak oil.”

I thought this was pretty telling, finally "sort" of admitting fuels cells are a waste of time. Horribly inefficient at this point. They do make some sense as far as fleet trucks, but we'll see.

 

[JBT66]

Unless they do a two prong approach for fuel and vehicle it’s never going to work. We don’t see anyone making a push for Hydrogen stations do we ?

 

[spacemnspiff]

Cognitively deficient comment by the CEO.

And by that, I don’t view Tesla products as luxury products. Those of us who only separate the world between luxury and non-luxury, we’re missing the point.

I guess this strikes me as something that's not widely perceived, that luxury products are 'Veblen Goods', skin deep luxury and with little or no substance beyond the veneer. A veneer of so called 'luxury' is what an irrational emotional buyer would call luxury to pull himself out of inferiority complex.

 

[SammichLover]

Maybe Toyota has too much invested in the Mirai fuel cell car. I'm not that far from the California Fuel Cell Partnership and I've yet to see any Mirai cars on the road and they would be hard to miss.

Something something sunk cost fallacy.