Toyota tech manager puts Tesla, Fisker, and Volt on "death watch"
While Toyota's media representatives claim that the company's too classy to engage in an "official death watch," that doesn't exactly rule out the informal, unsanctioned office pool. According to the national manager of Toyota's Advanced Technology Group, Bill Reinert, that's exactly what's going on. In an interview with the EV World newsletter, Reinert spilled the beans about the somewhat mean-spirited games going around the office. Some of his employees have already started a death watch on three of the most anticipated cars of the decade: the Chevy Volt, Fisker Karma, and the Tesla Model S (Whitestar). These skeptics say that each of the models -- particularly the Tesla sedan -- will never reach critical volumes simply because their batteries are too expensive. I don't really know how a death watch works. Is it like a baby pool?
In seemingly contradictory news, Toyota and GM seem to be in a race to launch the first mass-produced EV. Just yesterday, both automakers made announcements that they're moving up the timetables on the release of their plug-ins. So, maybe Reinert's just talking trash.
[via Earth2Tech]
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