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0 pointsdarkteflon6y ago0 comments

You’re making it for me: stuffing a (tiny) battery into a legacy ICE or hybrid architecture and calling it a day isn’t competitive with _current_ competition, let alone where the market is going.

Toyota’s failure to convert its early lead in hybrids into a successful EV business will be quoted in business schools and boardrooms for decades as a textbook cautionary tale.

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ianai6y ago

Is there another awd with high ground clearance phev? 39 miles per charge? You’re going to count them out for battery capacity? Something they can change unilaterally at any time?

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0 pointsdarkteflon6y ago0 comments

You’re making it for me: stuffing a (tiny) battery into a legacy ICE or hybrid architecture and calling it a day isn’t competitive with _current_ competition, let alone where the market is going.

Toyota’s failure to convert its early lead in hybrids into a successful EV business will be quoted in business schools and boardrooms for decades as a textbook cautionary tale.

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ianai6y ago

Is there another awd with high ground clearance phev? 39 miles per charge? You’re going to count them out for battery capacity? Something they can change unilaterally at any time?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse