As far as I know, that is the real cost. I don’t what the subsidies are for building filling stations. There are big tax subsidies when you buy the car.
I was amazed at how committed Akio Toyoda is to this, to the exclusion of electric cars. He’s jumping right from Prius to this.
I’m happy with a gasoline car. I don’t want any hassles.
I was amazed at how committed Akio Toyoda is to this, to the exclusion of electric cars. He’s jumping right from Prius to this.
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imho its national policy. On the one hand Japan can’t afford to import oil anymore. They’ve borrowed too much.
On the other hand the chinese are busy trying to create a choke point in the south china sea to Japanese oil supplies from the middle east. that would be intolerable to the japanese.
they know from experience with rare earths —that they can’t trust the chinese at all.