Their hybrid’s CVT transmission already doesn’t do upshifts, haven’t for a long time.

So, the question is, why now?

Money

To add to what @Rumblestiltskin@[email protected] said, there isn’t any push for hydrogen infrastructure, while EV charging infrastructure is being subsidised in every continent. It might have it’s use in large scale industry applications or as a battery for solar & wind, but I don’t see how hydrogen will be the future of the personal automobile.

I never really bought that argument, because sure, an EV car has co2 emissions during manufacturing, but then so does an ICE car.

Also it really downplays the consequence of having fumes being made by the tons in our cities have on our health and the surrounding ecosystems, so, to me, that was always a “we invested too much into our hybrid tech and don’t want to go anywhere else until we have made alot of profit” talk.

Wasn’t their CEO that constantly downplayed EV’s in favour of hybrids and hydrogen?

Capital be like: Pay a fair wage to people working these jobs? 👎🫣🙅 Go for the stupidest idea that will never work like this one just cause “innovation”? 🙈🙉💸💸

How much spaghetti is your code if most of the communities switching to private fucks up your website?

It’s possible, once they have a good ecosystem of apps plus a lower priced tier (maybe around at macbook air pricing?) However, I can’t imagining it ever shredding the feeling of dystopian-ness of it