Then stop defending combustion engines. Read the room.
Yes, you’re alone in defending a technology that after a century of intensifying development has 40% efficiency (whereas the tech you’re moaning about has 20 years of intense development and has already hit over 80%), consumes a limited, nonrenewable resource, and has significant responsibility for potentially human-extinction-causing climate change.
You feckless idiot!
I think you might have missed the exhaust killing hundreds of millions of people. No biggie I suppose.
Absolutely mind-melting to hear reps from a company that salvaged the concept of GE’s EV-1 and turned it into the wildly popular Prius turn around and bemoan battery powered cars.
What causes executives in the automotive industry to commit these acts of self-harm so consistently?
This is the guy who wore a MAGA hat to the Indy 500?
No.
Toyota isn’t part of Indycar.
That was a promotional event with NASCAR at Fuji Speedway, last year.
The Chairman will be responsible for the collapse of Toyota.
For the sixth consecutive year, Toyota is the world’s best-selling automaker.
Seems to be doing alright.
For now. Wait till Chinese EV keep taking over.
If Akio had access to the internet, he’d be up to speed in the car industry:
“ICE car sales continue to plummet in China, the top 16 cars are now electric”.
Don’t anyone try to tell me what I “demand”.
Fuck ICE whether it be engine or government agency
May he combust like the engines he works so tirelessly to defend.
Weird, mine is having to live through a modern reenactment of the end Permian extinction event
I love an ICE engine myself. Which is why my I have a shed full of antiques that I run once every few months on a nice day. My daily driver is electric though, I wouldn’t risk a car I love on the road. (My daily driver is an ebike but for bad weather and long trips I have an electric car)
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Is this nominative determinism or is he part of a dynasty that founded the company?
Grandson of the guy who turned it into a car company, and great grandson of the guy who founded the company.
But also worth pointing out that a lot of Japanese companies maintain the family lineage of CEOs through adult adoption, where the person identified as the heir apparent literally changes their last name and gets adopted into the founding family. I think Suzuki has done it 3 or 4 times, where the President of the company is named Suzuki but is not a blood relative, and is the adopted son of the previous President.
Oh look the moderators are sucking Toyota’s cock.
