Electric Cars Will Not Dominate Global Market – Toyota Boss
Electric vehicles (EVs) will never dominate the market and consumers should not be forced to buy them, Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda stated in comments published on the company’s website on Tuesday.
Battery-powered vehicles will only ever reach 30% of the global market, while the rest will comprise hybrids, hydrogen fuel-cell, and fuel-burning cars, according to the head of the Japanese carmaker.
Toyoda believes that EVs should not be developed to the exclusion of other technologies at a time when a billion people worldwide still live without electricity, while battery-powered EVs are expensive and need charging infrastructure.
Speaking at a business event earlier this month, Toyoda, whose grandfather founded Toyota in Japan in 1937, called for a “multi-pathway approach.” He added that the shift towards EVs will not happen as quickly as many think and that “customers – not regulations or politics – should make that decision,” referring to the net-zero emission targets many Western governments are pushing for.
Pushing back against the focus on battery EVs at the expense of alternatives, Toyoda said: “‘The enemy is CO2. So, let’s all think about reducing CO2.”
Toyoda’s comments come after electric car sales in both the UK and EU weakened toward the end of last year. According to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, the market share of electric cars in the UK decreased last year as some drivers were reluctant to buy them over fears about their high cost and the lack of charging points.
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Germany’s Population Grows by 300,000, Driven by Migration
Germany’s population rose by 300,000 people over the course of 2023, the Federal Statistical Office, known as Destatis, reported Thursday. At the end of 2023, Germany’s population came in at 84.7 million people, the office said.
The growth kept in line with the average rate seen between 2012 and 2021, the office said.
The increase was far lower than in 2022, however, when an unusually large increase of some 1.1 million people was recorded, mainly driven by the influx of Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s invasion.
As with other years, net migration, or the balance between people who emigrate and immigrate, was the driving factor for the population growth, given a gradual reduction in the size of the population within Germany.
Population within Germany itself consistently shrinking for decades
Germany saw a net migration of somewhere between 680,000 and 710,000 people, the office said, around double the net population growth.
As in all years since German reunification, the balance of births and deaths was again negative in 2023, as more people died than were born, the agency said in a statement.
Migration continues to be a key topic in Germany where the government has bolstered border controls and promised to speed up deportations.
At the same time, the government has addressed the need for foreign workers with reforms easing access to citizenship.
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Clothing Chain H&M Accused Of ‘Sexualizing Children’
Swedish fast fashion retailer H&M has been forced to pull one of its school uniforms ads after being accused of sexualizing children. The advertisment was shown in Australia and featured two young girls in black-and-white […]
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Senior Israeli Minister Says Iran Is A ‘Legitimate Target’ For Air Strikes
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“It’s Genocide”: Tucker Slams Canada’s Assisted Suicide Program for Targeting People Whose Ancestors Built The Country
Tucker Carlson accused Canada’s government of genocide because the country’s assisted suicide program disproportionally targets native citizens over new arrivals.
The program, Medical Assistance in Dying or “MAiD”, is responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands, and the government reportedly won’t release the statistics of who the actual recipients have been.
“If you’re killing 50,000 of your citizens, and the government is doing that through the MAiD program, and a lot of them are not actually terminally ill, they’re just sad,” said Carlson Wednesday in Alberta, Canada. “And the government is encouraging them to submit to being killed by the government. And then won’t release the recent statistics. What is that? Yeah, it’s genocide. That’s exactly what it is.”
“What percentage of those were born in Canada? I bet right around 100%. So if you’re a government, you have a duty to your citizens. People who are from here, people whose ancestors built the place. Not exclusively for them, but primarily for them. How many people who arrived in Canada in the last 10 years have opted into the MAiD program? I don’t know the answer [but] I’d bet around zero.”
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Carlson went on to point out that Canada is undergoing a voting crisis because of its immigration policies.
“If they’re limiting your freedom to say what you think (which is freedom of conscience), your freedom to defend yourself and your family against bodily harm, If they’re taking away your voting power by changing the population of your country – which they are doing.
Canada has the highest immigration rate in the world per capita. [pointing this out] is not racist. I don’t care if you’re coming from New Zealand. I don’t care if you’re taking the population from Stockholm and moving them to Canada.
If you change the population of the country, you change the country and you dilute the voting power of the people who were invested in that country. People who were born there, who have lived there long term, who understand the history and the culture. Who were bought in.
And all of a sudden, their vote means much less.”
Also during Carlson’s Canadian tour, he pointed out the anti-Christian origins of the trans movement and gave a grave warning on how Democrats will do “unspeakable” things to keep Trump from winning the next election.
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