Still Bullish on Hybrids, Will Toyota Leapfrog EV Tech with Solid State?
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‘Nice signature BTW. “Torque missile”
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To prove the point you can make even MORE purely gas cars using the same resources.
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People just make up stuff on the spot and there are no consequences for it. Man I'm telling you, on other forums I'm on like the Polestar forum, you make something up without a reliable backing source, you won't last 5 minutes
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looks like toyota hadn't even broken ground as of 6 months ago. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvObgNtT8P8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvObgNtT8P8
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Expansion? To what, that pond? What the heck?
Now you're doubling down on misinformation. A car needs more than a battery to drive down the road. 
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The "bigger picture" is the lithium battery factory Toyota is spending millions of dollars on, not the one-off science project for the Olympics that won't enter mass production. This is no different from that 100 mpg diesel VW made some 20 years ago.
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of course they’re going to use lithium. Just not in the high-end stuff. Toyota will have nickel as well for a very long time.
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They (Theranos) didn't last very long, did they. Thanks for making my point stronger. Now I'm doubling down. Good leadership would have never build and raise money around a fraudulent product. And just like Theranos, Toyota is touting a product that's nowhere near ready....SSB's. Or at least people are on behalf of Toyota
So my point still remains that a high valuation is about hype and does not predict well the future of a company.
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here is the true big picture
Hybrids are powered by gas in case you forgot.
Even in the US today, electric vehicles emit only a third to half of the lifetime emissions of gasoline-powered vehicles.