Akio Toyoda is right about one thing — Japan’s economy is heavily reliant on exports. It is common knowledge that manufacturing electric cars requires fewer workers than manufacturing vehicles with infernal combustion engines. Fewer parts means fewer workers. It’s as simple as that. //

For every job at the factory, there are 6 more among suppliers, sales people, clerical workers, banks and loan companies, and service operations, to name a few. Electric cars, with their lower demand for service and repairs, are going to play havoc with service departments at dealerships and with independent repair shops. //

Akio Toyoda is looking to save his own skin. He chooses to ignore the IPCC 6 report and all the other scientific studies that warn the Earth is getting dangerously hot for human beings. He is worried about his munificent salary and the value of his stock options instead of focusing on the problem — a lot of people are going to wake up dead over the next several decades because of global heating and the pollution from burning fossil fuels that shortens life spans.