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NEW YORK (Kyodo) -- Toyota Motor Corp. said Thursday it will adopt Tesla Inc.'s charging standards for its electric vehicles to be sold in North Ameri

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The government should have sat down with manufacturers, telling them "Better come to the table cuz that's where we'll decide what the legal standard will be." and come up with a solution instead of letting manufacturers do whatever they want until 8 standards came to be.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

well, we'll have to agree to disagree on that. I think it's easy to say that with hindsight, but you don't know where standards are needed when things are first getting going

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not as if it was unclear that EV cars were coming though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It was, actually. Many people are still skeptical of that even. Some people still think hydrogen is the future