Why the World’s Most Advanced Nation is EV Free?
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Video Title: Why the World’s Most Advanced Nation is EV Free?
Today we’ll take you to Tokyo one of the world’s most populated and most advanced cities this is like a segue for wheelchair just wow but where’s the future the other future electric cars are having a moment the demand for electric vehicles is booming not one e I’ll confront some of Japan’s Top Auto
Executives to find out why it has one of the lowest EV adoption rates of any developed Nation the E adoption is not quite as high this e adoption is high by the way we have 50 okay did I just defend the CEO of Nissan and meet a man who owns multiple EVS
Here in Japan so do people look at you like you’re crazy when they find out that you own two EVS yes they do to see how the nation who Once Sold the world’s first mass Market EV soccer moms everywhere are drooling plans for an epic comeback story behind me is Nissan’s hyper Punk
Vehicle while on a recent trip to Tokyo something became glaringly obvious in the city of 37 million people EVS were almost nowhere to be found in 7 days I spotted only six Teslas and a few dozen electric Nissans among others it’s interesting to see how the whole world
Is moving to the EV but Japan is very slow adopting the EV technology back in 2010 Elon Musk bet big on Japan predicting it would become Tesla’s second largest market behind the US fast forward 13 years and Eevees in Japan only make up 1.5% of new car sales the
Lowest of any developed nation and five times lower than the us but hybrids on the other hand are everywhere accounting for over 50% of new car sales last year which happens to be the world’s highest we see hybrid every day everybody driving hybrid for them it’s normal they
Don’t see the need to jump from hybrid to Eevee turns out Toyota’s early dominance in that segment may have stunted Japan’s EV growth and while Toyota bet big on hybrids and hydrogen I never see these in the US this is the Toyota marai which they say Malai here
Um a little bit different but I’ve actually seen quite a few of these here in Japan Nissan the country’s eeve leader has doubled down on electrification while at the mobility show nearly all prototypes and Concepts from every automaker on display were electric but there was only one automaker who seemed laser focused on
Electrification Nissan CEO Makoto Ida admitted to me that the EV Market was moving faster than expected and that cheaper offerings from China’s byd have been a wakeup call he said Nissan’s key priority moving forward will be affordable pricing for its EVS across the world electrifying nearly all cars
Sold in Europe by 2026 and its entire fleet for various markets shortly after these comments were in stark contrast to Nissan’s competitors earlier this week Honda said it was ditching plans to build affordable EV models with GM Honda CEO recently said a changing business environment led to the decision to not
Move move forward so we are seeing lots of Japanese cars here but they don’t really drive cars other than Japanese cars Toyota lots of Honda Mazda Nissan but we’re not seeing a lot of European Vehicles now for Tesla unlike most markets where it dominates the EV share
In Japan where service and brand loyalty are everything Tesla has lag behind they’re still very new to Tesla when Japanese buy things brand it’s one big thing service it’s definitely in there the service you get from Tesla it’s very different than ordinary Japanese automaker when you exit a dealership
People watch out the street for you the sales people actually come out block somebody else and say that go ahead please but for Tesa no it’s completely different in fact Japan’s bestselling EV is a $113,000 mini car called The sakur it accounts for more than half of all EV
Sold in Japan this year and quickly became a hit in its Home Country it specs alone tell you the variabilities involved in making a popular EV for each market the Sakura has a range of around 120 M but the 11t car has been so popular here that it won Japan’s carve
The Year award in 2022 when you’re designing globally do you think about the cultures in different regions the culture in Japan is very different than the US electric car adoption here is very different than the US so how does that play into the design as well to be
A Japanese company we don’t make an object and then distribute we distribute all of our teams they make objects send them to headquarter and headquarter changes now we did have to sign an NDA for parts of the event that what companies like Nissan have in store in their EV lineup
On the production side will both impress you with range and design but I will say the nation’s charging infrastructure has its own challenges and what’s your charging experience like here in Japan oh well it’s challenging you see charging stations have an average lifespan of about 8 years plus they
Require frequent maintenance back in 2014 the Japanese government approved a 100 million yen charging subsidy deploying thousands of stations Nationwide today more than half of those stations are either inoperable or close down moreover about 60% of high-speed Chargers in Japan have an output of less than 50 Kow while in most developed
Nations you’ll find upgraded stations with outputs of 250 or more Kow companies already have the charging in infrastructure there like long time ago but not a lot of people are actually using it first it’s difficult to use second it’s membership based that means you have to you have to be the member in
Order to use it our friend Allan who owns both a model 3 Performance and the Audi rron GT runs the only A-frame cabins in the area now check out the windows on this A-frame right that Scrolls down as well if you want privacy but look at this there’s the
Remote boom there is the forest I thought that was really cool now you see it now you don’t beautiful views when you wake up looking over the countryside Mount Fuji is actually right out there he’s also installed a destination charger at his properties but in over four years of
Ownership he says his charger has only been used once Japan’s Tesla superchargers are also pretty sparse considering the population the country is home to 125 million but only has 90 supercharging stations by contrast neighboring South Korea has less than half of Japan’s population but double its supercharging Network so I want to
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Video but thank you we are getting a first look at Infinity’s Vision QE this is their new electric concept vehicle we’re going to take you inside we’re here for a special viewing let’s go check it out while in Japan we saw some incredible Concepts including infiniti’s
First planed EV this is the vision QE this Infiniti was designed with the US market in mind and expected to be built in Nissan’s Canton Mississippi Plant Nissan also featured his hypers series Concepts at the event which gives you all sorts of cyber trck Vibes there’s
The hyper Punk and orami inspired EV the hyper tour and electric minivan the hyper Adventure a futuristic SUV plus the urban and Hyper for EVS of course everyone will tell you that these Concepts will never see the light of day but Nissan confirmed they’ll be releasing about 20 new EVS in their
Lineup before 2030 so you can imagine they’ll be drawing at least some inspiration from each of these Concepts all in all it was refreshing to see a Japanese company embracing electrification because again hybrids have been the name of the game here for so long Nissan CEO also told me it would
Be a priority for the company to not just make compelling Ms for each market but also make sure they’re readily available and affordable all right guys be sure you subscribe because up next we’ll take you inside a Tesla showroom in Tokyo for a sneak peek inside the new
Refresh model 3 plus remember to check out our new patreon as I’ll be posting some exclusive content including Vlogs from our Japan trip and neverbe seen footage I’ll link everything you need to know down below and thanks for your support and I’ll catch you next time yeah he super posing he’s like
Justo waiting photo is actually a big market for Asian people
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Public Transit that works and is usually very clean > Any EV
People thinking about the infrastructure and how to utilize it correctly before making illogical rash decisions > Western irrational governments shoving their ideology down everyone else.
He really couldn’t handle a question without getting butthurt?? 😂
Japan has done the same thing before with other technologies where they already have the best tech available.
They wait to change over, making maximum use of the infrastructure they already have – then when they finally make the jump they leapfrog over all the early development and go straight to a well developed new technology, gaining maximum functionality again for the lowest cost.
China HAD to switch to EVs – the air pollution was literally killing them. Japan already has great public transportation and their ICE technology is some of the cleanest in the world. What's more, as an island nation they don't have to care much whether their systems are compatible with their neighbors. They might as well let others pay the development costs for EVs.
I almost got hit head-on by Mirai on Cornell in Agoura Hills CA, proof that its a bad concept
You can’t force US/Western centric culture to others nations, it will backfire. Japanese want reliability, quality, durability, safety and they don’t like planned obsolescence like many US/Western cars and tech.
It's because Japan isn't the most advanced nation anymore. I say this sadly, as a Japanese-American. It's been stagnating and this is bad news for Japan's future.
I on a Nissan E nv200…it's electric, I live in YOKOSUKA, 2 county wide trips
Because Japan knows that Lithium isnt gonna be around to replace all ICE vehicles in the world. Japan had electrics back in the 80s 90s.
If they saw EV as a full replacement they would have done it since 2000.
Just look at what Toyotas ceo said.
From what we've seen so far, Japan has just not embraced EVs but done everything to work against EVs including lobbying efforts and spreading FUD and misinformation about EVs. Their only real EV was the Leaf, and that was just not a good enough car to catch on by the masses. The only other EVs from Japan other than the Ariya are made in China. They need to step it up and stop with the Hydrogen, waste of time and money.
The real answer as to why Japan is so late to the game with EVs is because of one man: Akio Toyoda. He is the ex CEO of Toyota and at the time president of the Japanese auto union. He has a huge influence on the entire Japanese auto industry and his agenda was placed on hybrid and hydrogen tech. Not electric. Now they switched gears with the new Toyota CEO Koji Sato and finally onboard to target 3.5 million EVs by 2030… But of course by then Tesla will be on their way to producing 15-20 million EVs globally.
0:50 Wait wut??? Is that Nissan thing. Is that a car, they can manufacture at scale?
Tesla needs anime viral marketing like mcdonalds Japan anime ads.
Battery tech needs to advance to lighter weight faster charge longer life lower cost and and material not consisting of rare earth minerals. Graphene or solid state type maybe 🤔
Excellent to see other perspectives, Thanks!
They are losing money on each EV unless tax payers pay the bill with tax breaks and ev only incentives.
Hybrids are the answer.
Not need for the government to use tax dollars to ban gas and force evs.
Despite the obsession with oversized vehicles, predominantly in Nth America, I have long felt that automotive manufacturers greatly underestimate the car buying public's appetite when it comes to the sales of smaller cars. Given the high price point of most EV's on the market today, and the incredible popularity of (very) small EVs in China, Japan, India, & even in Europe/UK, I think that very basic small EVs stand to play a tremendous role in the electrification of transportation worldwide.
EV manufacturers need to give Nth American car buyers the chance to opt for smaller, more efficient, just gets the job done basic EV's, initially targeting high EV penetration markets, university towns/cities with their high student populations and, although this may seem unlikely, areas with predominantly lower income/traditionally disadvantaged populations who would almost never be able to afford your average EV of today.
I often note how common the refrain is: "We won't be able to get it here" in reference to small EVs in Nth America. There's a clue there about untapped demand there for the automotive industry.
As a side note: walking back from grocery shopping last week in Wales as I is my habit, I was looking out for EVs. The thing that almost always strikes me, is the sheer numbers of small to (very) small cars, nearly all ICE vehicles, that predominate. In crowded towns and cities, small simply makes the most sense.
Japan doesn't have many EVs is because the Japanese Auto Industry doesn't want to, this is pretty similar to their cellphone industry back in the 90s and early 2000s when they were way ahead the rest of the world……
Allen seems like a cool guy
Nice video Kim. 👍
i think from what ic myself
the reason Japanese don't adopt EVs is because there isn't enough of them that are made by their own brands.
i tried to give a Chevy volt to my Japanese ex gf while we were together, she said no thanks,.i only drive Japanese car!
later her nissan Versa CVT transmission failed and i tried again she said i don't drive American cars and she still went out and bought another Japanese car. lol
World's most advanced nation. LoL, what a dumb thing to say.
Japan is not the “worlds most advanced nation”. Never was.
call bs on japan being the most advanced nation, any nation that has a fool like toyoda running things is the bottom of the dung heap
The important metric is litres of fuel per kilometer driven. Japan's fleet makes a mockery of the US fleet
Because Japanese don’t jump in the bandwagon. Instead when they want to introduce a technology they plan it 5-10 years in advance before implementation. Look at how bad the Ford lightening did. That’s because Ford was in a hurry to convert an f150 to electric.
Probably thx to yoyoda head himself… Holding whole country back
BYD and Tesla will be the EV kings in the future, Japanese manufacturers are to addicted to servicing costs as a business model, and hence, push nothing but hybrids. Even Australia, the land of huge spaces has a better EV adoption rate.
Very interesting video kim
Japan has a REALLY good public transportation system. When I visited I was shocked to see that we never really saw traffic to the congestion you'd fine in CA and in my short time there that was the biggest factor. Also taxis are not lucratively expensive. Never once did I feel like I had to own a car while I visited to get anywhere.
EVs are forced upon western society. The Japanese are clearly leaders in allowing their people to decide what they want.
I don’t hate EVs, but every person I know who has one, has an ICE car and has no intention of going EV only. One couple just sold their Tesla because they will be taking multiple road trips per year.
Electric cars were a toy for the rich in 1900, and that's still the case in 2023, especially if you don't own a home with your own charger. Most people can't afford organic food so most people can't afford these cars.
Not enough EV chargers in Japan
I really hope that Nissan will start a Sakura production in Europe. I heard its build quality is way ahead of any other brands for this segment.
You aren't a car guy if you don't root for legacy automakers to "survive" the transition. Only tech guys and tesla shareholders are the ones that are rooting for their downfall.
Blame for low EV adoption falls squarely on Toyota. Mr Toyoda & company have brain-washed the public into buying hybrids and hydrogen vehicles.
Hybrids have a gas engine polluting many densely populated cities such as Tokyo and Kyoto. The Japanese government should promote EVs for cleaner air.