dailyfinance.com — Toyota's recent $50 million investment in electric-car start-up Tesla Motors is just the first such partnership the world's largest automaker is pursuing, company President Akio Toyoda said. "Collaboration with other partners is an important part of the future of Toyota," he said. The companies are jointly developing an electric car prototype.
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biofriendlyblogJul 10, 2010
Looking forward to seeing what that partnership produces :)
user500Jul 10, 2010
Best of two worlds Toyota's lack of quality with Tesla's lack of price control should allow for some overpriced death traps. Toyota should partner with companies that make brakes accelerators and fire control systems first.If they cant grasp today's technology than they should wait on tomorrows.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
bannedwagonJul 10, 2010
A retarded Prius owner can't drive and the press blows it out of proportion so you think they aren't technologically capable.Wrong.
xdevitJul 11, 2010
Out of how many Prius's were sold that the owner had the pedal issue. No logical amount of testing can find some of the bugs and flaws that point X percent of owners can find. That goes for anything not just cars. If any company spent the time and money to find all the bugs and flaws they would never produce anything and would not be around.
Round about example of this is GT5, Its been in development for 10+ years, im willing to bet 1 trillion that there will be issues with the game that PD never found. Most of the time those issues are online issues and the effect are pretty bad.
meribianJul 10, 2010
Love is all around you!
laurenelderJul 11, 2010
Win + Win = WIN!
darkshroudJul 11, 2010
How the hell is this an alternative fuel? Electric cars/plug-in hybrids are the best bet for the future.
liquisoftJul 11, 2010
Tesla seems to be making some major leaps forward in the realm of electric vehicles, not to mention STYLISH electric vehicles. Hopefully a partnership with Toyota will lead to better pricing/more affordable cars so more people will be able to drive more environmentally-friendly vehicles.
In other news, the Model S looks delicious.
rocroJul 11, 2010
Damn, wish I had the cash for a chunk TSLA right now.
sallosJul 11, 2010
yes, if only you had $17.40 to buy a share of stock that was tanking last week.
rocroJul 11, 2010
That's exactly the point. It's dropped so much from it's IPO, that it will be popping up soon.
coolone84Jul 11, 2010
A match made in heaven
shodanxJul 11, 2010
it's funny because both of these companies make no environemental sense whatsoever
it's all a poorly executed PR stunt
jamaphJul 11, 2010
Progress doesn't make sense? Right, let's just continue to use engines that run at 10% efficiency and burn old tired hydrocarbons.
Electric vehicles are the future, charged from renewable energy = environmental sense.
shodanxJul 11, 2010
ok where do I start
would you mind citing your sources on that 10% efficiency for ICE engines ?
.... no .. wait ,you know what , get f**ked
I can't repel retarded drivel of that magnitude
mahadigaJul 11, 2010
To ease demand for crude oil, Govt must provide free public transportation.
jamaphJul 11, 2010
Now how amazing would it be if we got something like
TSLA and GOOG
A.I. driven car.
topcat5Jul 11, 2010
Let's see. Toyota is in a major meltdown mode and Tesla is a kit car company that hasn't demonstrated that it has any product at all geared towards the mainstream. Without that, it is irrelevant. This is more hyperbole than anything else.
Tesla's IPO, BTW has been a disaster for those who bought into it.
jqp123Jul 11, 2010
I've never understood this "investment" by Toyota.
Toyota clearly already knows how to design cars. An all electric car is actually a simpler design than a gasoline powered one *EXCEPT* for the battery. Telsa doesn't have any secret battery sauce, they use common known lithiun-ion technology. So why did Toyota make this investment?
Closed AccountJul 11, 2010
maybe so people will have more peace of mind when stepping on the gas and the brake
blatsekJul 12, 2010
There are zero downsides to battery vehicles. I have a hybrid and I LOVE it when it's in battery mode. Way fewer moving parts, much more reliable. Much cheaper and more efficient energy source. There are batteries that can charge in 10 minutes. They need to work on energy densities to triple the capacity and make batteries that are a pound per mile range. I will buy one immediately.
xeddJul 12, 2010
Everyone should watch "Who Killed the Electric Car" ... GM would have made BILLIONS if they hadn't intentionally f**ked up their EV1.
"Make an electric car, ya f**king bunch of bastards!" What the f**k is it going to take for these IDIOT companies to make a simple electric car? Jesus. It really pisses me off.