• SlakrHakr@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    I’m in the same boat, specifically looking at Toyota. I love my current Prius and plan to have my next car be full electric. It’d be an easy choice if Toyota had an affordable offering.

    Which, I havent kept up with current all electric vehicles but it looks like Toyota has something now? Don’t know much about this bZ4X though. I’ll have to do a bit more research.

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Don’t hold your breath on Toyota. They’re still huffing their hydrogen crack pipe. Until they commit to abandoning that silly dead end I’ll wager all of their EV offerings are going to be perfunctory compliance vehicles with minimal effort behind them or rebadges of other cars.

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      6 months ago

      As a RAV4 owner, I know what you mean. Toyota and Honda both make good, affordable, reliable stuff. But I’m not sure either of them is gonna be big players in the EV market this decade. Counterintuitively, I’d expect better from Ford on that front than Toyota across the next five years. I’d be happy to be proven wrong, but Toyota seems afraid to get away from gas entirely unless it’s through their hydrogen cells.

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      6 months ago

      From all accounts, the bZ4X is just a half assed compliance car and probably not worth the money. I’d wait to buy a Toyota EV until they begin rolling out their new solid state batteries which are supposed to come in '25 or '26.