Karl Schlicht, Carlos Ghosn, Henrik Olsen.

“The advantage of selling seven million units means we know what works. The myth that our hybrid has peaked and that we have to move to lithium [batteries] or plug-in has been greatly exaggerated.”

Karl Schlicht, Executive Vice President of Toyota Europe, indeed has no reason to doubt the company’s strategy that saw Toyota selling over seven million hybrids within 17 years. It remains to be seen if the fuel cell technology will be similarly successful.
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“As long as we don’t see many competitors in the battery business allowing us to be able to access the technology we want for our cars and allowing us to make competition work between the different suppliers, we’re going to continue to make our own batteries.”

Renault-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn repels speculations of cutting battery production anytime soon but is taking a generally open and pragmatic approach to the matter.
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“I have not seen any other country moving in that direction. On the contrary, subsidies are cut. But you only need a couple of markets to trigger the trend and Norway has been very helpful to Tesla.”

Henrik Olsen, partner at the Environmental Technologies Fund, who counted 15 Teslas at a recent visit to Norway’s capital Oslo. At the Ecosummit in London he was asked on his expectations for the EV market.
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