The EV thread

[ElwoodBlues1]

https://www.drive.com.au/news/toyota-com...n-engines/

Governments fail because Politicians want to back a winner in a sprint race, and we've a Parliament full of lawyers who have no idea on the technology side of the debate, and almost zero interest in the long term.

Instead we need engineers or scientists, the UK is just starting to correct this at the moment, we need to do more here and faster. But we have to get the engineers and scientists up to speed on dealing with the public.

Over and over again I've witnessed Australian developed technologies fail to commercialise here, only to then head off-shore and become big things a decade later with the proceeds lost to our country. The concept of a loss leader is completely foreign to our small minded politicians, they seem completely ignorant of global scale.

I think we make a mistake keeping them at arms length to investments, maybe we need to do the exact opposite and become like Germany were both politicians and employees profit from technology developments. They can actually take a vested interest in the projects they manage, it changes the dynamic.

This is more of a case of auto companies trying to extract maximum dollar from customers and win/keep market share from their competition. Do car makers want to make the world greener, save the environment....No imho, they just want to make the most money they can and will adjust, twist their thinking to whats financially better for them.
Toyota have lost the EV race to the Chinese and are now trying or backing every other fuel sourced engine to try and get a point of difference to set them apart and keep the money rolling in and their position as No 1 in the world.
ie https://www.drive.com.au/news/toyota-com.../......its hydrogen one day, ammonia the next and now full circle back to ICE...
I dont envy Kruddler having to choose what car for his wife and how its powered to buy next because Governments and Carmakers are not on the same page and future values, cost/supply of fuels, what infrastructure will prevail are all unknown quantities and I can see why DJC has decided to keep his V8 Landcruiser and not involve himself in overthinking it all.
We are different to the USA and Europe so we cant take a lead on what they are doing and China who have flooded their own country with EV's are starting to retreat from production.
I dont think the public are stupid, more naive thinking that Governments and Carmakers care about them, their futures and the Environment.