There is no line Democrats won’t cross.
They are maximalists on every single issue.
And the ridiculous reason these environmental extremists are furious at one car manufacturer will leave you rolling in laughter.
Democrats and their left-wing, ruling-class counterparts around the world are determined to push their environmental extremist agenda on the global working class.
A big part of that push includes electric vehicles.
Even though the demand is not there for EVs, environmental extremists are desperate for car manufacturers to ramp up production.
Toyota executive David Christ sat for an interview with CNN, and he was pestered with questions about when Toyota will produce more EV products.
More EVs
“Some people have accused Toyota of holding back the transition to EVs,” CNN reporter Peter Valdes-Dapena asked. “Do you feel like through your lobbying through the marketing of hybrids — do you feel like Toyota is holding back a transition that could be happening towards EVs?”
“Not at all,” Christ responded. “In fact, I would offer that Toyota started at all. Toyota started the electrification in the industry in 1997 by bringing out the Prius, which at the time was revolutionary. So since then, we have done nothing but advance our electrified options and advance our efforts to go beyond zero, which is our corporate commitment for zero emissions.”
Valdes-Dapena wasn’t satisfied with that answer, though, and proceeded to lambaste the CEO for the fact that “Toyota has only one electric model on the market.”
“Lexus has a corresponding product in this lineup,” Valdes-Dapena continued. “So between the two high Lexus and Toyota, that’s only two EV models.”
Christ responded by explaining that Toyota certainly wasn’t done rolling out new vehicle models and would have more EVs down the road.
“The BZ and the RZ at Lexus are great options, but we’re not done there,” he said. “We do plan to launch other battery electric vehicles and expand our BEV lineup, so if you hang tight with us, there’ll be more to come.”
But once again, that wasn’t good enough for Valdes-Dapena, who demanded to know a timeframe on when Toyota would bend to environmental extremists’ demands of the company.
“Yeah, it’ll be sooner than that,” Christ answered. “We’re not prepared to announce anything today. But we are expanding not only our BEV lineup, we’re also expanding what vehicles and how we sell plug-in hybrids, which is another great option.”
Still not enough
Valdes-Dapena queried, “What is your feeling about when people come to you and say, ‘Hybrids are great, hybrids save fuel, but you’re still burning fossil fuels’?”
Again, reducing emissions is not enough.
The Left wants the maximalist position of zero fossil fuels.
“We have a thing we call the 1-6-90 rule,” Christ said. “So if you take one long-range battery electric vehicle, and you take all the precious metals and the precious earths that are required to build that battery, and we use that same amount of minerals to build a plug-in hybrid, we can build six plug-in hybrids. And if you take that same amount of minerals and build hybrids, we can build 90 hybrids. So our belief is with a finite amount of raw materials, let’s maximize how many cars we can get on the road that reduces carbon. We believe that the enemy is carbon. We shouldn’t be goal-setting to sell as many BEVs as fast as we can. What we should be goal-setting as an industry is to how many cars can we get on the road that we read that reduce carbon?”
Christ laid out the problem with environmental extremists’ obsession with EVs – they are not terribly “green.”
It takes a lot of fossil fuels to produce vehicles, and a recent study showed that EVs might be producing more particulates into the atmosphere because they are heavier and put more stress on rubber tires.
Nevertheless, Democrats and their media allies are putting the pedal to the metal for more EV production.
