[redstripe]

I don't know if we should give Toyota any praise over their supply chain management. Consider the situation with their electric vehicles.

The plug-in hybrid "rav4 prime" has a 2 year wait list. They sold 3200 last year because they don't have any battery capacity. https://insideevs.com/news/466641/us-toyota-rav4-prime-sales...

This is a bit of digression on this thread, but it's stuff like this that makes it seem like traditional car companies are still out to lunch vs Tesla. They're just too slow to adapt and give up what has worked for decades.

[sbelskie]

Isn’t it their first plug-in hybrid? Seems like they could be testing the waters and ended up with way more demand than they anticipated. I guess we will see in a year or two if they can ramp up.

[girvo]

They’ve had the Prius since 2012, I thought?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Prius_Plug-in_Hybrid

128 thousand total cars globally

[petersellers]

No, they've had Prius plug-in hybrids for awhile now (but as far as I can tell, the demand for those haven't been nearly as high as the Rav4 Prime).

[ErikVandeWater]

It seems unreasonable to criticize Toyota on the basis that one model of a car has an extremely long waitlist.

[philistine]

Toyota’s blunders with electric vehicles has nothing to do with its supply chain and everything to do with its strategic decisions. The Rav4 Prime has a long wait list because they chose to make a small quantity of them.

They partly choose to make so few of them because they’re still trying to make hydrogen happen.