On the news to day, Toyota are buying back E Trucks, because the wheels are falling off and they can’t remedy or fix the problem.
I should imagine the same problems will happen in the UK and EU !!
Sabretooth:
On the news to day, Toyota are buying back E Trucks, because the wheels are falling off and they can’t remedy or fix the problem.
I should imagine the same problems will happen in the UK and EU !!
Toyota has spent so much time & money lobbying against BEV’s that they’ve forgotten just how much torque electric cars have over ICE cars, I wouldn’t be surprised if they have to change the drive shafts too. What a turkey for their first full electric car from a well established auto maker,
The Subaru Solterra BEV is essentially the same car and as such has been delayed with the same problems. 
Toyota has gone cap in hand to the Chinese auto giant BYD to build an affordable electric car the equivalent of a Corolla, It will be built in China & have a Toyota badge on it, I bet BYD will charge them a pretty penny for that.
They wont be the only Japanese car manufacturer to tank, Mazda’s BEV sales of their MX 30 are in single digits 
Yet another compliance car to allow them to keep making ICE vehicles in an ever decreasing ICE market. The MX-30 EV has a paltry range of 100 miles!!! in 2022 really! that would have been just about acceptable in 2010 not today. electrek.co/2022/08/08/mazda-mx-30-sales/
Carryfast:
lancpudn:
Hydrogen will be too expensive to manufacture for a while yet for just HGV’s alone let alone other vehicles. They’re still favouring the overhead charging infrastructure for the HGV industry.
“Whatever happens, the UK must be cognisant of what is happening in Europe. We can’t end up with totally different approaches.”“To power our HGV industry an ERS (electric road system) network would require 10.6 gigawatts of electricity, equivalent to 3,500 wind turbines. In comparison hydrogen vehicles need 35.6 GW, equivalent to 12,000 wind turbines, he said.”
commercialfleet.org/news/tr … ctric-hgvsOverhead lines would restrict the route options to the point of defeating the object of trucks.
Even freight trains use diesel engines to power them rather than existing overhead cabling.
While we all know that an all electric energy policy would be all about nuclear not wind turbines regardless.
The truth is Electric trucks won’t cut it hydrogen fuelled ICE powered trucks is the obvious choice.
Either way it’s just replacing the lie of greenhouse CO2 with the all too real greenhouse water vapour from steam turbine exhausts and hydrogen combustion.Also the risk of irradiating swathes of this small Island in a nuclear disaster.
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phys.org/news/2019-12-scientist … nergy.html
It would seem that every and all ideas and method of producing alternative energy will increase costs and the depletion of other energies. -
Overhead powerlines were the source of many Trolley Busses in major cities from just after WW !! up to the beginning of the 1970’s. In major cities the overhead line restricted vision to the point you could class it as a pollution. plus the fact the power needed for greater distances limited the distance an electric vehicle could travel. Even the underground is limited to distance! trying to use electric for a motorway is ridiculous because you would need a generating station approximately every 50 mile and a substation to boost the power approximately every 25 miles.
Electric is not and never will be the answer, unless evey vehicle can generate its own power by the flick of a switch…