Toyota, Honda, Nissan and other Japanese automakers are serious about rolling out battery electric vehicles to catch up with the world's frontrunners like Tesla and BYD

Toyota, Honda, Nissan and other Japanese automakers are serious about rolling out battery electric vehicles to catch up with the world’s frontrunners like Tesla and BYD

“We love battery EVs.”

Takero Kato, the executive in charge of electric vehicles at Toyota, said that not once, but twice, to emphasize what he considers the message at this year’s Tokyo auto show.

It’s a message ringing clear at the Tokyo Mobility Show, which will run through Nov. 5 at Tokyo Big Sight hall and where battery-powered electric vehicles are the star at practically every booth.

    • CatZoomies@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Hey! That telemetry that we didn’t agree to and a good chunk of which was buried in lengthy legal jargon that you have to accept to use the car was necessary. Like Goku’s crowdsourced Spirit Bomb, Nissan collected our sex data to… make sexy cars. Yeah that’s it. Nothing insidious! /s