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Toyota to adopt Tesla charger for North American EV models (mainichi.jp)
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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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[โ€“] mayonaise_met@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They've announced a lot of EVs are in the works but they'll also keep offering hybrids and FCEVs. They kind of have to our they'll lose the European market.

[โ€“] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

And they have also announced that their EVs will use the same naming scheme as the BZ4X. Toyota has good, distinct, and memorable names for everything other than their EVs.

The choice to identify their EVs by a catalog number instead of a name, shows that they're only making EVs because they have to.