The Japanese automaker Toyota still can’t really get used to electric cars. In the past, leading managers of Toyota have drawn attention to themselves with critical comments on battery electric vehicles. Now skeptical tones can be heard again.
The market is not yet ready for electric cars, the same applies to the infrastructure, said Jack Hollis, who heads sales at the Japanese group in North America. And even if you were willing to buy an electric car, you can’t afford it because the prices are still too high, Hollis is quoted as saying by Electrek.
Here is what exactly he said. “I don’t think the market is ready. I don’t think the infrastructure is ready. And even if you were ready to purchase one, and if you could afford it … (the price is) still too high … It took 25 years to get to less than 10% (market share) for hybrid …