How Long Can Toyota Put Off Figuring Out EVs?
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How Long Can Toyota Put Off Figuring Out EVs?

Bloomberg  

A couple of hours west of Tokyo by bullet train, in the midsize town of Mizunami, a shuttered middle school is providing Japan’s carmakers with a different kind of education. A reverse-engineering company called Caresoft Global Technologies Inc. has turned the old junior high into a laboratory for electric-vehicle design. And in what used to be the gym, there’s good reason for Toyota Motor Corp., the world’s leading car manufacturer, to be worried. As a basic example, consider one component: Toyota part #55330-42410, a 20-pound steel bar, known by engineers as a cross-car beam.

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