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Now we just need to figure how we’re going to generate sufficient electricity to charge these batteries.
Toyota will likely build mainly PHEVs, which are plug-in hybrids. These will be able to run fully electric (no gas) for most daily commutes. When you return home you plug in, charge overnight, then drive fully electric each day for your commute. Then, when you need further range (i.e. Florida), your PHEV will use the electric for the first part of the drive, then automatically swith to its fuel efficient hybrid system that uses both gas and electric for the remainder of the trip. You just fill up at the gas station and drive like a normal vehicle, no plug-in required. Once you return home, you can plug in at night for your daily commute in electic use again. PHEVs are more affordable than fully electic cars that have no gas engine. They also do not have the range anxiety that electric cars have. Lastly, PHEVs can have the lowest carbon footprint from production to grave, even lower than fully electric vehicles.
Switching from gasoline powered vehicles to electric vehicles will not require additional energy production. It will mean a shift from one source of fuel to another. Today most vehicles are powered by refined, petroleum-based gasoline. Electric vehicles will be powered by nuclear, natural gas (which is also petroleum-based), solar, wind, and coal-fired power plants. If new sources are required, “need is the mother of invention” and free enterprise will rise to the challenge.
As a current Chevy Volt owner I can tell you you’re wrong about the PHEV idea. That ship sailed already. The best EVs are getting amazing mileage and range anxiety is becoming less and less of a buyer fear. GM already discontinued the Volt. They released the Bolt to much acclaim and it’s failed terribly unfortunately with battery fires. The idea of a cross over stage from full gas to full electric is over. Full EV is what people want… Tesla Model S performance/range for $40k.
The momentum is starting to shift to electric now that the battery range is long enough and the free market is getting on board building the cars. Once it gets going things will change quickly. It will be fascinating to watch the shift over the next ten years. The question is no longer will it happen, but when. I certainly can’t afford a new car right now or I’d get one, but I suspect as electric becomes more prevalent gas will keep getting more expensive. It will be like when they got everyone to replace their old AC units at home, by making Freon too expensive to buy. It will also be interesting to see if their will be much of a used market for electric vehicles since replacing batteries is currently too expensive. I’d love an electric lawnmower now, but my Honda will probably last another 15 years and I don’t have the dollars to swap everything out including my car. We will need a robust economy to make this monumental shift, but it’s clearly on the way now with these kind of announcements.
That’s fantastic Toyota……now, how about building a computer chip plant?
That is currently a real problem Pat isn’t it. As long as we have only a few chip plants in a country that has issues with China it’s not a pretty picture. How does that even happen that such a critical component of all electronics is concentrated in a single country. That would be like oil and gas only being produced in one country. I hope we and the rest of the world can change that situation soon!
Mike, I came here to type that 😂