Comments by "Be Low Below" (@toyotaprius79) on "Bloomberg Originals" channel.

  1. More than a decade ago
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  2. Typical Yankistan media
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  3. VW was arrogant theor executives and leadership arrogant, cheated their diesel emissions to gain its dominance. They ignored the writing on the wall with regards to EVs and made them premium SUVs with less-expensive base options coming 3 years after lsunch. . Look at VWs focus on its 15 year lineup diesel or EV - they have trapped themselves in an SUV malaise
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  4. ​ @aniksamiurrahman6365 you conveniently ignore the wasteful reality of artificial scarcity from hoarding houses to incinerating food and livestock purely to keep prices in line with those invested in them
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  5. +ReXShunji *Drumpf
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  6. EU/EPP is too thick you mean
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  7. Ironically though, it's Toyota that needs notes from Tesla. They used to be investment partners for a brief three or so years. Toyota's falling far behind (behind Honda and even Mitsubishi) on electrification. They pioneered hybrids sure, but fell behind even their own conservative estimates to hybridise more models around the world. Ignoring the obvious hybrids sold in affluent markets, none are built and sold towards specific emerging markets. All of those light-duty trucks for example. On top of all that stalling they have pulled in the other direction on not investing in any EVs and making a half-arsed attempt at plug-ins.
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  8. Quinn was a shorter, just fyi
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  9. L U I G I
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  10. The Union of Concerned Scientists have already answered and debunked this myth over a year ago. From manufacture to recycling - electric cars, compared to ICE competitors, produce 50% less emissions in their 10 year life span on the current, nation-wide-mixed 2014 electricity grid. This assumes a grid that will not change in those years. It does not take into account personal wind and solar sources that a large portion of US plug-in drivers have benefited from. The comparison between China and India is bogus, at the very least, lacking information. China has regulated their car market so intensively, many EV advocates have seen it as too strong. All responding to a never ending smog and health crisis for hundreds of millions of its citizens, their response was to attack pollution at its source. Licence Plate lotteries, odd and even number days for registered cars, the lot didn't work. China then put more restrictions on ICEs, while removing barriers for domestic-made plug-ins, such as removing the $10,000 price to buy a registration plate and the years a car owner would wait to be granted to buy one. India on the other hand has done nothing. It's only electric car maker, Mahindra (aka, Reva), is looking to more hopeful markets outside of India.
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  11. It's all about consiousness, and there is fuck all in Ireland for those over their early 30s. And when you live in an area that has seen decades and decades of emigration (and the Troubles) having "a job" without leaving where you can home is the best cope to have. The state (both Irish, British and Stormont) are ineffective to allow people to make decisions in governance
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  12. hippoownyou Dude, they've been building thousands every year for 4 years now. Go on the internet. There are apps and maps that can show you thousands of charging stations and what type they are. If you live in Montana or Wyoming, then you can say that there's no infrastructure around you.
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  13. hippoownyou I really don't mind the idea of waiting *half an hour while I get my messages (groceries) done with a cup of coffee. 99% of a car's life is spent motionless, parked, off. Might as well put that time into good use.
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  14. Nobody learned from the political assassination of labour unions that made the British mines famous?
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  15. California has had its own movement got a clean air board since the late 50s. What the federal US state does is allow California's government to determine its own regulations ( state intervention ) on car sales, smog regulation, electric car mandates (which the Bush administration sued California for in cooperation with Exxon, GM, Ford in the early 2000s)
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  16. What drivel, guys! This is far too rushed and misleading! Toyota has no car to sell yet, it's aiming between $50,000 to $100,00 with limited production to select Californian areas. The exact same story with its RAV4 EV and Fiat's 500e. They don't really want it existing at all. None of these are actual competitors to the Model S. Seriously, the 500e? The closest competitor is the ELR and that's not an actual competitor. The only competitor was the Fisker Karma, a big, grandiose, desirable, high performance car. We just won't see that back in the next several months. Would you compare a VW Golf GTI or a BMW 1 series to a fully fledged Audi A7 or A8, or a BMW 7 series? No, that's ridiculous. I might aswell say that the new and revised i-MiEV should be in this list as it has now gotten a lot cheaper, deep into the mid $10,000s.
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  17. 🔥🔥🔥
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  18. ​ @davidapswoude3259 yeah, it's not the ruthless profiteers, is it?
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  19. 1:51 hate to break the news but "natural gas" has proven to emit more green house gases than coal purely due to methane leakage
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  20. Neoliberalism
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  21. Then you would be glad to know that many hands can make light work, in decarbonizing
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  22. This is the door that the US and the EU have left open for decades for the preserve of profits, power and lobbying of fossil fuel companies. Go figure, our futures on a sustainable earth cashed away for quarterly profits and class divisions.
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  23. The i3 is not competing with the Model S or LEAF, they're all in different categories like luxury, performance, midsize. The i3's competitors are the Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric Drive and definitely the Cadillac ELR winch is basically a posh volt in the $60,000 region. Some may say the Volt too may compete with the i3 too. By this time, I haven't heard of any options. I think the i3 is starting from an all out luxury package so I doubt there will be much options other than the range extender.
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  24. Reactionary western media: "China's importing solar powered woke mind virus"
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  25. Luigi, Mario, where are you??
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  26. Stereotypical CEOs would decimate businesses and jobs to get some bonuses, like some who'd call Tesla losers, but unlike the stereotypes of CEOs, Elon actually has one of the lowest annual salaries in Tesla. Just over $33,000 a year. He's an Entrepreneur to change the world for people, not for the profit. He's literally a second Jobs.
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  27. We'll have to wait and see, for a year. Usually there'll be a Euro N-Cap rating months before release in Europe. My guesses are that it'll get 5 stars. It has an empty front crumple zone like the Tesla. It's mainly made of Carbon Fiber and Aluminium, low centre of gravity, etc. For the price of it, there's no excuse for it to not get 5/5 stars in any crash test.
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