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    6 months ago

    Because they don’t actually want to sell any, but they’d like to stop all the bad press that Toyota is actively lobbying governments against EVs adoption to prop up their very profitable ICE engine cars.

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      6 months ago

      There’s another reason, which goes back to the early days of Japanese consumer products being exported.

      It’s simple, they make up a model name which looks like a code but if you say it in English it sounds like a word. The word is usually sales orientated, so attaches meaning in a relevant or attractive way.

      So this EV is called the Breezy Sea - BZ3.

      My camera is made by Fujifilm and it’s called the X-E1 - Sexy One.