Japanese automaker Toyota continues to delve deeper into a Bizarro-mirrored universe in which it actually (sort of) behaves like an EV automaker. Following news earlier this week in which the EV laggards laid out an $5.6 billion investment plan to build batteries, Toyota is already making moves to convert two engine and powertrain plants near its Japanese headquarters to produce EV batteries instead.
Who is this Toyota brand, and what have they done with the hybrid-hugging, gas huffing automaker we’ve not so subtly been calling out the past six years?
It feels like just last week we were challenging claims by Toyota North America’s executive vice president that there isn’t enough EV demand in the US… oh, wait that was last week. Despite those comments in the US, Toyota HQ in Japan has pulled its head out of the sand in a push to further EV production… well,…