HiLux Within 5 years for the EV version

Yuglamron · Guru

HiLux Within 5 years for the EV version

Kebbin · Guru

Couldn't find that article anywhere not even Toyota Latest News, so can you post a link Trevor?

Whenarewethere · Guru

Toyota owners can use the current charging network so there are no issues about charging up your Toyota!

Yuglamron · Guru

It was on the latest Pat Callinen's 4X4 website email so I, cant post a link

I'll try this,

http://patcallinanmediapty.patcallinanmedia.com.au/index.php?action=social&chash=9908279ebbf1f9b250ba689db6a0222b.1298&s=b2ab99ea8e48b54a278f5713a3640025

-- Edited by Yuglamron on Friday 12th of April 2019 10:38:37 AM

Kebbin · Guru

So it is not a Toyota press release but a Mr 4x4 press release, so does that make the black text highlighted by white your addition and not the said articles. Makes it seem like fake news doesn't it? Or are you after something else?

Knight · Senior Member

Yuglamron wrote:
Toyota have made a bold statement saying they hope to release an EV Hilux within 5 years worldwide including Australia.
They have quoted Qld as having EV charging stations right now every two hundred K's from the NSW Border all the way to Cairns.
This next bit is lifted from their press release.

Still, to power the EVs, there remains the requirement for coal-fired power stations; however, renewable energy in the form of solar and wind turbines continues to grow every year.
So Governments where are the new generation HELE Coal powered Power stations.
Or do we sell all our coal abroad and Pay premium rates for OUR Power?
Oh yes we have a precedent We Sold all our gas to offshore interests and pay exhorbitant prices to buy some back for Domestic use.

High Energy Low Emissions coal fired power stations, or gas fired as the US is now turning towards because since the ban on hydraulic fracturing for coal and shale seam gas they are cheaper than US coal.

The other option is zero emissions nuclear power stations, the UK has just started a prototype nuclear fission reactor.

A government report around 2005 recommended small unit nuclear power stations, many more than our present coal fired, dotted all over Australia but the politicians decided no way.

Please consider that Norway and Sweden, adding more EV than most countries, have hydro and nuclear energy mainly.

-- Edited by Knight on Friday 12th of April 2019 11:39:41 AM

Yuglamron · Guru

Some facts. The article stated clearly that it was Toyota's press release that the Pat Callinan's site was reporting on.

Britain has an abysmal nuclear record.

Had to rename the Cumbrian Nuclear reactor site to Windscales after thousands, yes thousands of nuclear accidents and leaks. So much so it is illegal to catch or eat shellfish from an exclusion zone around the plant. The old name was synonymous with Nuclear leaks.

Hinkley Power station in N. Somerset UK built on a flood plain with substandard foundations which have major cracks so one of the two reactors was permanently shut down.

I cannot divulge where but a depository for spent fuel rods from Britain's Nuclear Fleet along with outdated Nuclear Shells, Nuclear Torpedoes, Nuclear Mines and other ordinance. In that facility alone there are now sections that are no longer accessible from radiation leaks. There is another facility where the spent Nuclear Fuel rods from the British and some American Nuclear submarine fleet.

The sites I have mentioned I have been to myself. Numerous times for most of them.

None of this is fiction and most verifiable online.

In the early 70's I worked as a coded welder building production platforms for North Sea Oil. Earning aprox $100 an hour in todays money.

The Contractor who was in the weld checking business checking all the welds, used Radioactive materials to do X Rays of each weld for Lloyds of London's underwriting process.

They had a sixty ton underground Concrete and steel safe to store the Radioactive sources. It turned out that they were leaving the sources all over the site.

Their own workers were the only ones using Film Dosimeters to check exposures. Everybody else never knew their exposure levels so lots of us lost our jobs because no one new how much exposure each person had. The parent companies decided it was better to get new staff and let us go as we had unknown exposures.

We in Australia have a very quiet Govt Dept. monitoring the Radioactive pollution and it's effects on our seas and marine habitat and wildlife. This as a result of a "Safe Clean Nuclear Reactor" At Fukishima in Japan.

Personally my belief after years working alongside the nuclear industry. There is no such thing as a safe clean Nuclear industry. Not Yet anyway.

-- Edited by Yuglamron on Friday 12th of April 2019 02:27:21 PM

dabbler · Guru

It's not really news, just regashwd a bit given Labor's plan/wish for increased WV sales. Toyota have stated a few times in the past, they expect to have an EV variant for every model line by 2025. That's not just Australian models, it's their worldwide range. In fact they new EVs and EVs in current models not yet available here including RAV4 EV (since the late 1990s).

PeterD · Guru

Kebbin wrote:
So it is not a Toyota press release but a Mr 4x4 press release, so does that make the black text highlighted by white your addition and not the said articles. Makes it seem like fake news doesn't it? Or are you after something else?

Did you click on the Read More link? Scroll down and you will see those words. They are Pat Callinan's words.