Japanese carmakers are belatedly coming to see that they need to speed up in this EV race. Toyota, again, the biggest carmaker in Japan, has a new CEO, Sato Koji, and he's been tapped in part to lead the company's push for electrification. He made a point of announcing a plan to release 10 new EV models and to boost annual EV sales to 1.5 million per year by 2026. We've heard similar things from other large Japanese car companies, including Honda, Nissan. There is a sense that they're running behind and they do need to catch up.
Climate change is stirring up internecine conflicts, criminality is making them longer, and cross-border contagion is complicating matters further. We explain why civil wars are so hard to resolve. Japanese carmakers’ dominance of the automobile industry could be at risk if they don’t catch up in the race for EVs. And, a tribute to musician and civil-rights campaigner, Harry Belafonte.
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