Toyota to invest $1.3B in Kentucky factory to build battery packs and new EV

Post by ThinkBeat » Thu, Feb 08, 2024, 6:47 PM UTC

rootusrootus wrote: post #241

ThinkBeat wrote: post #194

This is of course mostly due to the giant US subsidies the federal government is offering citizens now, but the EV must be "built" in the US (Which has some loopholes and strange definitions in it) I dont quite understand why the sales of EVs in the US is considered to have flattened out according to some statistics.

> I dont quite understand why the sales of EVs in the US is considered to have flattened out according to some statistics. Politics. Some people want it to be true, so they conflate an easing of the growth rate as an actual rate reduction. It could also be innocent ignorance of statistics. The real hang up with EVs right now is primarily price. They're just reaching the point where TCO is a wash. Historically, most p…

Post by ActorNightly » Thu, Feb 08, 2024, 8:02 PM UTC

rootusrootus wrote: post #234

ActorNightly wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I could walk in and buy Model Y any time I want. Not so with Rav 4 Prime. Plugin hybrids are the future.

I tried for a while to score a RAV4 Prime. Dealers were assholes about it, they don't have waiting lists or anything like that. "Come by every morning to see if any show up. We sell them all within 15 minutes of arriving so we don't need you." So I bought another Tesla. At this time the Toyota experience has left such a sour taste that I will probably not ever consider one of their products in the future. Other manuf…

Post by folkclarity » Mon, Feb 12, 2024, 12:10 PM UTC