Comments by "Be Low Below" (@toyotaprius79) on "The Electric Viking" channel.

  1. If it had ACTIVE COOLING it would already be a better buy
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  2. Hopefully BYD could build their affordable EVs there
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  3. The free market economy is the biggest hurdle. Oil interests using every oppertunity they can to hold back decarbonisation from backing ancient politicians to entertainment news.
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  4. Most people interested in EVs do research. That's why dealerships hate us
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  5. Affluenza: more dollars than braincells
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  6. If only profit for executives and investors wasn't the no.1 goal, Europe wouldn't be left so vulnerable.
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  7. Nobody wants their EVs
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  8. Idk The breakthrough battery clickbait has been steady since 2015
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  9. Imagine how strong EV sales will be if there were actually affordable, efficient and compact EVs 🤔
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  10. They better offer refursbishing too, reapolstering, rust proofing, etc
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  11. And oil subsidies
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  12. Well they have to ignore it. Any mutterings of it and a recession could cause an investor run, and bank runs etc. This is the Inescapable conundrum of capitalism. This is the market eating itself out. And ultimately, it has been the multi-industry wide culture of the maximisation of profit, rewarding profit and maximum return in dividends. The market players all rush at +100mph to make the better and more profitable car (be it ICE or EV) for more growth every quarter and at a point there's always a crisis when growth slows to a trickle and when projected profits aren't met. The only planning we see is the planning for profit, not the planning in making future cars for future needs. An oversupply of models. An oversaturation of too expensive models. A lack of variety of models if consumer demand change because that's what most of the competition competes for (crossovers) which also happens to make the healthiest profit margins. And without a doubt a change of the consumer themselves that the market may leave behind. Outside of company cars (which may well be help driving the trend), the base of new private car consumers is growing older and is shrinking. The automotive market both ICE and EV are abandoning new drivers basically. Especially when it's too expensive for a segment city cars or microcars. The Citroen C1, Peugeot 108 Toyota Aygo is discontinued for low profit margins. B class cars aren't considered profitable unless they're poshed up with features and entry price This is the market eating itself out. And ultimately, it has been the multi-industry wide culture of the maximisation of profit, rewarding profit and maximum return in dividends.
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  13. ​ @jonevansauthor and Toyota doesn't even think as quickly as VW
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  14. If only the other comments were clever enough to see that reality
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  15. As if the bloated pay of executives, short sighted products and stock buy backs hasn't done that enough?
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  16. Always from the incompetence of executives, but the narrative will always blame workers'wages and electric vehicles
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  17. So without the invasion we'd be in a worse situation? geopolitics is a fecking curse
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  18. Distributors and Dealerships in western markets really do need to be gagged.
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  19. At the same time, Stellantis would funnel millions into pushing back on EV and emissions regulations
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  20. You had me until you talked shite about trains/rail
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  21. If only BMW executives and investors didn't shoot themselves in the foot and stumble backwards and abandoning the essense of the i3 and i8. The production process of those cars were commendable
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  22. I haven't heard of Lithium Sulphur in a long time!
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  23. And torque, reliability, simplicity and efficiency
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  24. Imagine if they just made every hybrid available with stronger and larger battery capacities. They would be half way there to the electrification goal and tears ahead of the mess of the situation we're in now
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  25. Less truck, more UTE! 🙌
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  26. Their Buzz is extortionately priced.
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  27. Western Automakers are going to wish to pretend this isn't happening.
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  28. Remember folks. Ten years ago Mazda had a working prototype of a Mazda 2 phev with a rotary REx
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  29. The incompetence of executives led to a culture of blaming workers unions.
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  30. It would've been competitive in 2015. That's how badly Mazda squandered time for R&D
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  31. Who's gonna tell Kirk Kreifels?
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  32. 🎯
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  33. They want to keep their dead end business model
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  34. ​ @kabysummit5801  Toyota couldnt even take plugin hybrid seriously beyond compliance car regulations. It's pathetic, we've been saying it for years and now the decisions of apathetic executives have come home to roost.
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  35. You don't think it's the litany of profit-first decisions made by executives?
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  36. Executives (and dealerships) are their own downfall and will always create their own ecomomic demise. That's capitalism, no boom and inflation without a bust. And this one is seeing an oversupply and under delivery of projected profits. And the executives will blame EVs for the recession they created.
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  37. Who dictates who in the workplace
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  38. Or that it has solid state batteries in the works ready for commercial production, any time soon now
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  39. Or the Nissan e-Power, without the large battery
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  40. She did sell out
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  41. Maybe. But not all electricity grids in Europe are in full public domain, since the liberalisation of the electric grid turning it into a market for shareholders, prices have inflated terribly. It's artificial In Ireland ten years ago it used to be €0.13 - 0.2 per kWh. Now it's €0.50 per kWh ! It makes EVs self defeating when oil is subsided and political pressure discourages tax on petrol
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  42. I used to be a Toyota fan boy and their woeful performance on EVs, as well as abandoning small cars leaves a lot left wanting
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  43. Not surprised
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  44. If we're being honest about both light weight and stationary storage; The focus on crossovers and SUVs negate any light weight advantage of lithium ion. They're a clear problem now that we see them as the norm for modern electric cars. As if they weren't already a problem when they're ICE. Efficiency is everything, and making a heavier car because of its competitive segment with larger tires with more profit margins is antithetical to efficiency and the path of electrification in general. Then when it comes to stationary storage use, redox flow batteries and flywheels would be the better priority. Building the production lines and increasing production for lithium or sodium batteries is a time costly process. A 3 tonne mass spinning on a motor in a vacuum inside a protective steel casing connected to the grid or a substation - not as difficult. The lack of planning is. But that's a political problem.
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  45. I just hope Aptera would succeed in getting funding for getting production up and running, and then show what it truly has on offer. Frankly, I'm quite perplexed to see EV advocates (or trolls) in the comments here and elsewhere to deride or make jest over the Aptera for its priority for efficiency, safety concerns, 3 wheels, that it's a glorified grocery getter. When it's about building a design to a minimal use of resources and energy. The goal would be to set the next bar of standard. That is worth its own introspection
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  46. Yellow Peril still alive and kicking
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  47. ​ @stevenjones916 have you seen all the "Mazda and Toyota's hydrogen engines will destroy EVs" being spammed everywhere?
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  48. Executives seemingly don't create any value...
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  49. 3:21 GM? As all things considered, legalising stock buy backs is state support only possible through private political sponsorship.
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  50. We have this hot house earth to deal with first :))
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