An article in the Los Angeles Times today presents a misleading picture of battery electric vehicles and Toyota's motivation to produce fuel cell vehicles.
They cite poor sales with no mention of the limited availability and lack of advertising compared to gas. They present Toyota as a forward looking company rather than one trying to limit its costs by producing the fewest zero emissions vehicles in the smallest geographic region as possible. There is no mention of CARB at all, much less how that might influence Toyota's decision to use fuel cells rather than batteries.
Battery electrics are portrayed only as short range with hours long recharge times with no mention of their advantages.
They cite poor sales with no mention of the limited availability and lack of advertising compared to gas. They present Toyota as a forward looking company rather than one trying to limit its costs by producing the fewest zero emissions vehicles in the smallest geographic region as possible. There is no mention of CARB at all, much less how that might influence Toyota's decision to use fuel cells rather than batteries.
Battery electrics are portrayed only as short range with hours long recharge times with no mention of their advantages.
Concerned about slow sales of electric cars and plug-in hybrids, automakers are increasingly betting the future of green cars on hydrogen fuel cell technology.
"Today, Toyota actually favors fuel cells over other zero-emission vehicles, like pure battery electric vehicles," said Craig Scott, the company's national manager of advanced technologies. "We would like to be still selling cars when there's no more gas. And no one is coming to our door asking us to build a new electric car."
http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-fuel-cell-cars-20141026-story.html#page=1