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Not a single car company, no matter how big or innovative had 'EV just figured out' and could easily just mass produce them. VW is the size of Toyota and was and is nowhere near that.

The idea that Toyota, a company that has nothing but stalled on EV and fought EV regulation at every step has internally already perfected every aspect of EVs is just nonsense.

Their initial products are not competitive in price or performance (or anything really).

Some people have really gone in the deep end with Toyota and believe that Toyota can not actually make mistakes. It all some 4D galaxy brain strategy. Its impossible that they simply bet on the wrong technology, had stubborn leadership, under invested in EV (and battery production) and are now paying the price. Of course not its all brilliant strategy. They fired their CEO, despite his amazingly brilliant strategy. They also invested billions in hydrogen with virtually no results just to throw people so they don't know that Toyota has already perfected EVs. And they invested billions in their solid state batteries, that will be in mass production by 2022 (what year is it?).

There is literally 0 evidence that Toyota has 'figured out' EV. And there is a literal mountain of evidence suggesting the opposite.