People who have vested interest will make such accusations.
replyI own EVs but I am opposed to "mandates", opposing coercion makes you anti coercion not the objective of coercion.
you read the articles, correct? the ones where they are actively supporting climate-change denying, pro-January 6th Republicans who are actively working on repealing CAFE, emissions standards, and other climate protective standards?
replyalso the accusation of 'vested interest' is very funny to me as someone who is proverbially hiding all his liquidity under a mattress (ie bonds) until this AI bubble pops and whose sources are 1) a non-profit and 2) a Union of Concerned Scientists blog
Anyone can write a blog and they can write anything they want there. There's no more value in those links than in a Reddit comment.
replyso you'd treat an academic reference text on chemistry as just as prone to bias and as worthless as a reddit comment?
replyif you have other sources that talk about how great Toyota is, that'd be wonderful
Or even an HN comment, for that matter.
replyWhen the government said everyone should wear masks were you the guy coughing on all the produce?
replyToyota isn't so much pro-internal combustion as pro-hydrogen. They bet on the wrong horse -- a really stupid horse -- and it cost them heavily.
reply> They bet on the wrong horse -- a really stupid horse -- and it cost them heavily
replyHow? Toyota has been the best selling automaker for the last six years straight:
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/toyota...
In 2025 Toyota had record sales.
their total ledger might be fine but it's not like their R&D just came free out of the good will of thousands of people
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