Online Forum for the 2012 Rav4 EV

Thank you Tony, for providing an excellent summary of each auto manufacturer.

JB Straubel, CTO of Tesla, has been saying they will get to $100 per kWh by 2020. That's only 4.5 years from today.

Have you studied the subject? $100 by 2020? Is that realistic? Tesla/Panasonic at $100 by 2020, and followed soon after by Samsung, LG, and others. (Nissan has been at this a long time now, what's their cost in $/kWh today? Is it true LG Chem will be supplying the Leaf soon?)

If so, how do you see this industry play out? 4.5 years is not a very long time!

Given that Toyota sold only a few RAV4EVs and will likely sell < 200 Mirais in CA in 2015, will they meet their ZEV sales requirements this year?

I don't know how many credits they need, but I think that meeting the goal will be tough, especially if Mirais are slow to materialize here. I would be very interested in learning whether they are buying any ZEV credits from EV manufacturers (Tesla, Nissan?); that would be pretty ironic given their stated disdain for EVs.

Does anybody have any information on this topic?

I've heard (on a recent EV meeting) Toyota got another meeting with Tesla for another series of carb complient EV cars and Tesla basically gave them the finger.
just a rumor though

Not even a good rumor.

As far as Toyota and Tesla are concerned, there is plenty of blame to go around.

Toyota famously insisted on the parking pawl (which required a different gear box casting, since Tesla doesn't use a parking pawl). Obviously, there were other issues from Toyota.

But, Tesla did not ultimately deliver the trouble-free hardware that Toyota paid them $100 million for.