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Why Toyota is INTENTIONALLY Slow at Making Electric Cars
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Correction:
@1:11 The RAV4 EV is actually the first generation model from 1997 - 2003
@1:34 is the second generation model made in partnership with Tesla from 2012 - 2014
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Original photo: Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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0:20 Original photo (non-edited): Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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1:13 Mariordo - Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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1:35 Mariordo - Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
1:33 Tesla factory video from: Videos Con Altura 4k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0oqPfl49PU&t=4s Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
1:49 Akio Toyoda photo from Toyota. Elon Musk photo from NASA/Kim Shiflett
2:37 Herbert Deiss photo from Volkswagen
3:24 Creative Commons Zero - CC0 via Max Pixel https://www.maxpixel.net/Vanderstyne-Toyota-Rochester-Used-Cars-Toyota-Cars-2696705
4:16 Michał Beim, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Articles referenced:
IEA report https://www.iea.org/reports/electric-vehicles
Brattle report https://www.brattle.com/insights-events/publications/electric-power-sector-investments-of-75-125-billion-needed-to-support-projected-20-million-evs-by-2030-according-to-brattle-economists/
Washington Post article https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/13/electric-vehicles-grid-upgrade/
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