Toyota confirms EV, Hybrid Trucks - Pickups, SUV

Okay.
We’ll go with what you say.

 

Thanks

 

You’re welcome.

 

I'm personally thinking sooner but we have no way of predicting it. I'm here for it though, I'd love a hybrid pickup.

 

Those battery swap places would be huge, think about how many cars you see at the highway stops, imagine having enough batteries to handle that traffic, would be a good number, even if it’s only for charge time, imagine what that charge station would look like? I’d check out a hybrid 4Runner, but I still enjoy driving the manual transmission in my taco to give it up to easy, but a manual transmission taco, might make me consider my next taco.

 

Yeah a battery swap station would have to be damn near the size of a small football stadium in order to have enough batteries on site. Also wonder what they would have to do to protect a place like that from uncontrollable fires, was reading about that recent Tesla crash where the fire department used something like 30 thousand gallons of water trying to put out the battery fire.

 

It’s going to take more panel size than a tonneau to get you home though. More like rtt plus batwing and then some.

 

Why can't they just make an EV you cannot tell is an EV from a mile away? Why always so goofy and futuristic?

BMW/Mercedes also seem unable to stop themselves from producing EV in two-tone (yuck.)

Range/recharge time is also still a huge turnoff for me.

 

I always wondered that too but they make them as aerodynamic as possible to avoid drag at the expense of looks i.e. pop out handles, no grill nose, smaller or camera based side mirrors. Just the way it is.

 

I use my truck for everyday driving, towing and 2 to 4 week driving excursions where we drive for 10 hours and stay in hotels or motels...my wife and I are retired. I can’t imagine doing that in an EV.

 

The future will be better range and less anxiety..just not yet.

 

By those years I'll be more worried about the government taking my driver's license away.

 

You're good. There are plenty of dangerous geriatrics who will never lose their license... What's one more?

 

I’m one of those...77...so maybe the future isn’t totally bleak for me

 

The key is a little commuter for work and back. And the taco for weekend adventure. In 2016 I had a Chevy Spark EV leased for my work commute. Was awesome and fun to drive

 

This is what I’m most interested in. This would be a huge undertaking. Fire protection engineering seems fun until you have a 100,000 sq.ft warehouse of batteries capable of lighting half the earth on fire

 

never understood this, if you’re going to lease something incredibly ugly and fuel efficient, why not just buy a used Corolla rather than throwing money down the toilet?

 

Tax deductible.

 

That thing is ugly as shit

 

Corollas use gas.