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Toyota CEO Agrees With Elon Musk: We Don't Have Enough Electricity to Electrify All the Cars
PJ Media ^ | DEC 21, 2020 | BRYAN PRESTON

Posted on 12/21/2020 4:15:45 PM PST by george76

Toyota makes a lot of cars, so many that it’s the world’s largest or second-largest auto manufacturer every year.

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So Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda’s comments at the company’s year-end press conference deserve notice and no little amount of respect. He knows more about cars and their economic ecosystem than just about anyone else on the planet.

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“The more EVs we build, the worse carbon dioxide gets… When politicians are out there saying, ‘Let’s get rid of all cars using gasoline,’ do they understand this?”

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failure to count the cost of what politicians are proposing. More EVs will demand more electricity.

Toyoda is getting at two things. One, EVs are not powered by magical unicorn emissions, they are powered by the means we use to generate electricity. In the Japan, the United States, and everywhere else

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Wind is not economically competitive yet, so it’s subsidized by the government. Neither wind nor solar are cheap or reliable enough yet to displace oil and especially natural gas in our grid. The wind doesn’t always blow and the sun doesn’t always shine. Oil and natural gas always burn.

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The second issue Toyoda is getting at is that petroleum isn’t just a fuel, it’s the foundation of thousands upon thousands of products we rely on every day. Cars alone have plastic and other petroleum-based parts throughout their systems and interiors. There is as of yet no reliable or economical replacement for the petroleum used to manufacture those parts

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Perhaps two of the world’s leading car experts should be listened to before Tokyo, Washington, or any other capital follows California’s lead and bans gas cars without considering the ripple effects.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: automotive; electricity; elonmusk; energy; hybrids; infrastructure; prius; tesla; toyota; twofaced; youaskedforit
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To: RummyChick

I think they are interested in the software aspect of electric cars.

Unless you have a solid lock on the market, you’re always better off as a dominant support player.


41 posted on 12/21/2020 4:49:01 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults. )
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To: george76

Cars have been engineered to be almost pollution free. New cars, in fact, actually pull carbon from the air and captures it with its filter system.


42 posted on 12/21/2020 4:50:14 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults. )
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To: Chickensoup

A state of decay.


43 posted on 12/21/2020 4:50:32 PM PST by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
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To: RockyTx

No. They are correct. The big car makers don’t care what kind of car they make, as long as it sells. If electric cars were better, he’d be saying that they were better.


44 posted on 12/21/2020 4:51:31 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults. )
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To: nascarnation

China is also building nuclear power plants.


45 posted on 12/21/2020 4:52:03 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: george76

46 posted on 12/21/2020 4:53:03 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: euram

Here in Washington state we generate more hydro electricity than any other state.

But because California refuses to generate its own electricity we end up selling to them and our prices rise.

And for some reason hydro is not considered one of the green renewables.


47 posted on 12/21/2020 4:53:48 PM PST by angry elephant (Been with Trump since huge 2016 Washington state rally in May.)
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To: Robert DeLong

That is the leftist goal


48 posted on 12/21/2020 4:57:03 PM PST by Trump.Deplorable
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To: TexasGator

Cbeck the facts: The world’s first purpose-built gas station was constructed in St. Louis, Missouri in 1905 at 420 South Theresa Avenue. The second gas station was constructed in 1907 by Standard Oil of California (now Chevron) in Seattle, Washington, at what is now Pier 32.


49 posted on 12/21/2020 4:57:59 PM PST by Bookshelf
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To: Robert DeLong

“It will be no problem when they kill off 90% of the world’s population.”

Someone in the 10% will finally take them down.


50 posted on 12/21/2020 4:58:04 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Keep the Faith. Everything happens for a reason.)
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To: RummyChick
Apple is talking about getting into the electric car market

Apple hopes to sell cars to a niche market who'll overpay (especially if we subsidize them) to brag to their associates about how virtuous they are regardless of how environmentally damaging its and how many children get sick mining the metals for the batteries.

51 posted on 12/21/2020 5:01:56 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: george76
Where's the beef coal?
52 posted on 12/21/2020 5:03:20 PM PST by BipolarBob (Money can't buy you happiness but it can buy you ammo. That's pretty much the same thing.)
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To: Jonty30

wrongo

they want to sell ICE engines

the rest is mostly a box


53 posted on 12/21/2020 5:07:39 PM PST by RockyTx
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To: george76

Natural gas puts out 55% less carbon dioxide per unit of energy than coal or oil does.

40% of electricity is from renewables, nuclear, etc, and that is increasing at a rate of 3% per year.

Electric cars can charge at earlier in the day than peak energy usage, meaning they don’t even create a need for increased generating capacity; There’s just as much sunlight at 9AM when A/C needs are minimal as there is at 3PM wehn A/C needs peak.

There’s enough lithium for 400 billion cars with current technology levels, and it is not consumed by battery usage: when your battery needs replacement, the lithium can be recycled, if the scarcity of lithium is ever great enough to make recyclable profitable.

New Mexico alone could generate the solar power to power the entire Earth, and the efficiency of gathering that solar power is likely to grow at a faster rate than the global economy for many decades.


54 posted on 12/21/2020 5:09:41 PM PST by dangus
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To: Bookshelf

“Cbeck the facts: The world’s first purpose-built gas station was constructed in St. Louis, Missouri in 1905 at 420 South Theresa Avenue. The second gas station was constructed in 1907 by Standard Oil of California (now Chevron) in Seattle, Washington, at what is now Pier 32.”

Those were just curbside pumps. The first drive-in station opened in 1913.


55 posted on 12/21/2020 5:10:13 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: george76

l8r


56 posted on 12/21/2020 5:10:39 PM PST by preacher ( Journalism no longer reports news, they use news to shape our society.)
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To: nascarnation

“Renewables” are supposed to fight increased CO2 emissions-—coal of course does not.

But those who want to reduce CO2 emissions must come up with a better way!!!!


57 posted on 12/21/2020 5:12:29 PM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Jonty30
" If electric cars were better, he’d be saying that they were better."

1400 hp ...


58 posted on 12/21/2020 5:13:25 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: proust

Unicorn pee.


59 posted on 12/21/2020 5:14:08 PM PST by EEGator
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To: george76

We don’t have enough coal and oil and natutal gas to make all the electricty to make all cars electric.


60 posted on 12/21/2020 5:15:41 PM PST by Phillyred
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