https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/18/why-japans-carmaking- heavyweights-could-be-facing-an-electric-shock
https://v.gd/bgH4Al Japan´s traditional carmaking giants need to raise their game in the race to develop pure, battery-driven electric vehicles or risk being left behind by Chinese, American and European producers, analysts have warned. Despite dominating car production in Asia for decades, Japan´s big players have been slow to fully develop the battery-only technology that is now eclipsing hybrid vehicles ... Tesla topped the table for worldwide sales of plug-in electric vehicles last year, according to Statista, with more than 500,000 cars. Volkswagen was a distant second, followed by the Chinese market leader BYD. No Japanese manufacturers made the top 10. Last year, fewer than 15,000 battery electric vehicles (BEVs) were sold in Japan, or less than 1% of overall car sales ... Although Japan says it wants to phase out petrol and diesel cars by the mid- 2030s and is a powerhouse producer of hybrid cars, consumers have a limited choice when it comes to BEVs ... The government also faces pushback from the boss of Toyota who said last year that "the current business model of the car industry is going to collapse" if the government moved too quickly. Toyota has no plans to mass produce a BEV vehicle until 2025 ... Tesla recently reduced the cost of Model 3 in Japan in a direct challenge to local producers ..... China ... plans to increase the EV share of new car sales to 20% by 2025 and at least half of all sales by 2035 ... In South Korea, the government is collaborating with manufacturers to try to bring down the high cost of EVs ... Thailand ... has pledged that 30% of output will be EVs by 2030 ... Singapore will not allow the registration of diesel vehicles after 2025 ... David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. -- William G. McAdoo = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
