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Toyota is taking the Corolla electric

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paimapi · 1790211060 · focus · HN ↗
and all it took was two decades and millions of spend in anti-EV lobbying before they finally gave in, huh
(also kind of wild to me that an EV focused blog wouldn't mention this a single time since Toyota is (was?) arguably one of the staunchest and most stubborn anti-EV manufacturers out there)
1. radiator · 1790272297 · focus · HN ↗
  They were neither anti-EV in the past nor will they stop producing Internal Combustion Engine vehicles in the future
  1. paimapi · 1790272749 · focus · HN ↗
    based on what? there's so many sources noting their anti-EV lobbying
    <a href="https://chargedevs.com/newswire/toyota-actively-lobbies-against-support-for-evs/" rel="nofollow">https://chargedevs.com/newswire/toyota-actively-lobbies-agai...
    <a href="https://thedriven.io/2026/06/17/japan-car-giants-still-pushing-anti-ev-narrative-even-as-china-rivals-close-sales-gap/" rel="nofollow">https://thedriven.io/2026/06/17/japan-car-giants-still-pushi...
    <a href="https://blog.ucs.org/dave-reichmuth/why-does-toyota-oppose-clean-air/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.ucs.org/dave-reichmuth/why-does-toyota-oppose-c...
    and here's their CEO going on a tirade about Japan's EV-adoption mandate: <a href="https://evannex.com/blogs/news/puzzled-by-toyota-ceo-s-anti-ev-diatribe-it-s-not-unusual" rel="nofollow">https://evannex.com/blogs/news/puzzled-by-toyota-ceo-s-anti-...
    RajuChacha108 · 1790273392 · focus · HN ↗
    People who have vested interest will make such accusations.
    I own EVs but I am opposed to "mandates", opposing coercion makes you anti coercion not the objective of coercion.
    paimapi · 1790273650 · focus · HN ↗
    you read the articles, correct? the ones where they are actively supporting climate-change denying, pro-January 6th Republicans who are actively working on repealing CAFE, emissions standards, and other climate protective standards?
    also the accusation of 'vested interest' is very funny to me as someone who is proverbially hiding all his liquidity under a mattress (ie bonds) until this AI bubble pops and whose sources are 1) a non-profit and 2) a Union of Concerned Scientists blog
    7734128 · 1790274130 · focus · HN ↗
    Anyone can write a blog and they can write anything they want there. There's no more value in those links than in a Reddit comment.
    paimapi · 1790277986 · focus · HN ↗
    so you'd treat an academic reference text on chemistry as just as prone to bias and as worthless as a reddit comment?
    if you have other sources that talk about how great Toyota is, that'd be wonderful

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