Clamping down on combustion vehicle emissions will raise the cost of trucks like the Tundra. Billions in production and charging infrastructure subsidies should help make EVs cheaper and more desirable to consumers.
Toyota displaced GM as the world's top automaker in part because it pioneered a lower-cost, higher-quality lean production system that enabled it to build vehicles with fewer hours of labor and less capital investment. Toyota's production system - based on continuous, often incremental improvements - is central to the work of the San Antonio truck plant's 3,800 direct employees, as well as another 5,600 with suppliers on the same campus.
Toyota invested almost $400 million to upgrade the assembly line to build refreshed 2022-model Tundras and Sequoias. Tesla is also challenging Toyota's lead in lean production. Tesla builds Model Ys using large, one-piece "mega-castings" to create big chunks of the vehicle's body structure. Mega-castings replace scores of metal parts Toyota and other manufacturers use to create vehicle bodies - along with the expensive machines that weld them together.
Tesla executives told investors in March they are working on a new approach to assembling vehicles that couldThe future for factories like Toyota San Antonio will play out across the next several years.
On a practical level, EV's are not a good choice for areas with hard winters right now.
Yeah drive for 10 years and recycle will be the future. Brace...
Once these monster truck folks see how electric motors beat ICE in every single metric, the switch will be obvious. Demand will not be able to keep up in the early phases. The transition to electrification will happen much faster than most people think.
Biden's push? I think Tesla will lead the nation in E-truck sales by the mid 2014. It already dominates e-vehicles world wide. Biden ahs pushes UAW bloat that has stifled innovation from the 'big 3'.
'We can't produce enough of the Sequoias and Tundras today,' said plant manager Kevin Voelkel. 'There is a waiting list.'' RWMann lindacardellini janewells good read plus slideshow - 6 pics total
Anyone who buys an electric vehicle is conspiring with Federal tyranny
Biden is busy sending cash to Ukraine. No time for electrifying anything at this moment.