Mitsuhisa Kato, Tony Posawatz.
“Our goal in the mid-term is to offer a hybrid model in all the model segments. Yet we must get the costs down further in order to put this technology into the smallest cars.”
Toyota development chief Mitsuhisa Kato confirms that the carmaker’s push for hybridisation could even include the small Aygo city car.
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“Our goal in the mid-term is to offer a hybrid model in all the model segments. Yet we must get the costs down further in order to put this technology into the smallest cars.”
Tony Posawatz, formerly the CEO at Fisker Automotive and once an executive at GM, says Tesla’s business model is not sustainable because it depends too much on ZEV credits. And with his recent success, he should know a bad strategy when he sees one.
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“I do have some general concerns around their ability to make a profitable model that’s a high-volume model.”
“We see a very low penetration in other states, where there are fewer or no subsidies as in California, and there is a poor charging infrastructure. We need subsidies in all those states for ZEV. We need a public charging infrastructure and a political commitment from ZEV states.”
“We can drive demand up at will. But if drive it up too much, then people would get upset with us because they waited too long for their car….When I was visiting in China, the only unhappiness I saw was…because customers were upset about waiting too long for their car. So it’s like, boy, we better not stoke demand in that situation.”
“It’s a very strange situation we’ve got ourselves in – we should all be on the same side. We’ve done a lot of work with the electric highway; they’ve done a lot of work with their electric car. We should get on.”
“We are putting together the three components of the battery, the anode, the electrolyte, and the cathode, in ways that have never been done before.”