'Bleeding obvious’: Toyota CEO says California ban on gas-powered car sales ‘difficult’



Sky News host Rowan Dean says the CEO of Toyota has stated the “bleeding obvious” by revealing it will be “difficult” to achieve California’s plan to ban the sale of new gas-powered vehicles by 2035.

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38 thoughts on “'Bleeding obvious’: Toyota CEO says California ban on gas-powered car sales ‘difficult’”

  1. James hit it out of the park! "It's a war on independence and mobility." Yes, yes, YES! The WEF, who are behind all these policies, do not want individuals to have any power, any means of self-support, any way of traveling, except what our "Benevolent Overlords" provide! This is what the New World Order is all about: power and wealth for THEM, nothing at all for YOU!
    BTW- great to see Rita back on Outsiders, but now I miss Daisy! Can't we have both on, Sky?

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  2. Reading these comments just shows how backward, slow, and stupid people are. Most of you don't know the truth from fiction and still believe the misinformation being farmed out by the fossil fuel industry.
    Here is something for you to check. The average EV power cost to run is around $50-$100 extra on your monthly power bill versus how you spend a week on fuel for your ICE vehicle?
    Now work out those costs for a year and then for 15-20 years which is the average battery life span. Then see which would you rather have paid for?
    I will make it easy for you.
    The following was all from google search results.

    How much does a Tesla battery cost?

    Tesla battery replacement cost varies depending on the labor and parts needed. Typically, the most basic battery replacement in tesla costs between $13,000 and $14,000.

    What is the life expectancy of a battery in an electric car? 15 to 20 years

    “Today, most EV batteries have a life expectancy of 15 to 20 years within the car – and a second life beyond.” They can be recycled.

    The average price for fuel from 1998 until now is around $1.03/L

    So using that info $1/L and buying 50L a week = $50/week = $2,600/Year

    15 years x $2600 = $39,000 x spent on fuel

    20 years x $2600 = $52,000 x spent on fuel

    How much does charging Tesla at home increase your electric bill?

    Across all Tesla products, the average charging cost per mile is 4.56 cents per mile. So, if you only charge your Tesla at home, you can expect your electricity bill to increase by about $50 each month. If you don't have solar.

    50 x 12 = $600/Years

    20 years x $600 = $12,000 x spent on power

    Okay, $52,000 spent on fuel – $12,000 Power cost – $14,000 battery replacement cost = $26,000

    So for a very rough estimate owning a Tesla would save you $26,000 over 20 years in running costs even with replacing the battery, and that does not include the service costs required for a combustion engine vehicle every 15,000km

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  3. The current desire of governments across the west to move away from cheap and abundant fossil fuel derived energy is already creating huge problems for the steel manufacturing industries in Germany as but one example. Without cheap and abundant energy manufacturing per se becomes very difficult. EV availability is going to be the least of our problems. You have to look at the full equation. Everything gets hugely expensive and scarce without cheap and abundant energy.

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  4. Is California also going to install 30+Amp charging outlets in every parking spot in the state for all these electric cars on a power grid that is near collapse?? And what good are solar panels if a hurricane can rip them right off your roof?

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  5. Anyone that supports EV cars, wind turbines and solar panels are also supporters of slavery plain and simple. The facts that the so called green energy and renewable energy is neither green nor renewable is beside the point. The fact that neither are reliable doesn't matter. Facts are irrelevant because none of this crap is about " SAVING the PLANET ".😁😁😄😆 It's not about " Global warming " or " Greenhouse gas " . 😆😅🤣 It's simply about centralizing power amongst the Global Elitist. Just can't fix Stupidity and there isn't a vaccine for it. 😁😁😆😅 As a side note; co2 is a necessity ingredient for all life on this planet and greenhouse gas is a good thing. It's what makes Earth capable of life as we know it. The Leftist have been able to convince a substantial part of the free world that life in general and the things that make life possible are evil 😈. Go figure

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  6. If people wanted to be more green, why not ban traveling to other countries. Imagine how many flights occur during the world in one day, that should give you an idea of how much pollution occurs into the atmosphere.

    That’s one point they’ll never bring up because their the same people that “like to travel and see the world.”

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  7. You ever wonder why politicians always call upon laws or restrictions to be put into place years after they leave office, because that way they can take no blame on anything if it fails. These politicians pass on their failures to future politicians, that is the never ending wheel, cowards who sell you BS in order to get votes.

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  8. If only the wealthy and elite are allowed to own cars and we peasants are expected to walk, bike, or use public transport then expect to see a lot of traffic videos coming from Europe and the U.S. like you see coming from India, China, Russia, and Vietnam. Good times ahead.

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  9. To get rid of individual ownership of automobiles in the US would require a complete restructuring of American cities, infrastructure, and society. Americans do not live near their jobs, their grocery stores, or anything they need. We do not have neighborhood markets for daily shopping like Europeans do. We have Costco and giant supermarkets weekly or bimonthly (twice a month) shopping trips where we fill up a cart (or two) and then load it all into our vehicle for the 40 minute drive home. And work is often worse. From my time in California, this is especially true there. Everything is up or down he highways running along the coast. You have to get on the highway to go almost anywhere in California.

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  10. The materials for the next generation will come from the same place it did as the current generation, from the earth’s crust…

    Where did the current iron, aluminum, hoses, and etc used by ICE engines and transmissions come from? ICE cars are mostly electronic now as well, just not as efficient.

    Electric drive trains are here to stay, only question is where the electricity to drive them will come from; batts/charging or fuel cells?

    You fail to take into account the amount of grid power used to produce current ICE iron and aluminum engines; that is a lot of power that can be used elsewhere. Same with the power used to pump, transport and refine petroleum.

    Solar in SW and wind in the Great Plains is an insane amount of juice once it’s harnessed and will long outlast the Dino juice and farts left in the ground. That’s assuming we don’t wise up and dump dumbass nuclear for proper nuclear and get our juice that way.

    Either way, Dino juice/farts is on the way out and electricity will rule the roost going forward. No matter if most of the coasts become underwater properties.

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