cwerdna
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Maybe due to many workers and management being in Japan and having observed poor BEV sales there (https://www.mynissanleaf.com/viewtopic.php?p=627075#p627075) despite having a ton of CHAdeMO? https://www.chademo.com/globalcounts2022_h1 says there are 7800 CHAdeMO chargers in Japan, which is ~90% the size of California in land area. If I did my math right, BEV sales in Japan only accounted for under 0.5% of new vehicle sales there.Toby said:It's not just Nissan displaying a lack of interest in EVs. Toyota, Honda and Subaru are late to the table. I wonder why. Is it the high cost of materials? Having to buy batteries from Korea or China?
Toyota did have gen 1 Rav4 EV and Tesla-powered gen 2 (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_RAV4_EV). But, both were California compliance cars. Honda also had https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_EV_Plus and Fit EV (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/all-electric-2013-honda-fit-ev-begins-leasing-july-20-in-california-and-oregon-160832275.html) along w/Clarity BEV (now dead). Fit EV and (IIRC) Clarity BEV were lease only and also CA compliance cars.
Toyota, Lexus and Honda do have other BEVs outside the US like https://www.lexus.eu/car-models/ux-300e/ and https://www.honda.co.uk/cars/new/honda-e/overview.html.
Subaru AFAIK isn't a particularly large automaker.