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Originally Posted by hayden55
I'm to the point now where I think Toyota is almost the antithesis of Tesla. Starting to see strong correlation between Toyota's delayed uptake of new technology in the majority of their cars and the strong reliability/Quality/repairability it gives mostly all of them.
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Toyota takes chances, though--they're just much more measured than what Tesla does, which seems to be "three sheets to the wind and pray it works" a lot of the time. For example, Toyota was the first to market with a production hybrid in 1997.
But, they made the decision to go with a robust, proven battery chemistry. But I agree, their (and Honda's) conservatism seems to be the antithesis of Tesla's bleeding edge. It will be interesting to see if that comes back to haunt Toyota in the future, when so many people are already complaining that they haven't announced any BEVs yet.