congress so that was the last straw and that's why we chose toyota why now well uh you know i've been trying to get people to stop buying new ice for a long time and they weren't listening so i'm just taking it straight to the dealer that's where the money comes into the system and so we figure if we can tamp down the sale of new ice that will cause toyota and other ice manufacturers to change to fully electric sooner than the expected NUMBER_TOKEN date we want to get it closer to NUMBER_TOKEN if we can plug-in america is one of the organizations behind the national drive electric week which is actually happening right now in person and virtually you know what else plugin america is boycotting their own website and social media because they haven't posted anything about this boycott online they are handling their own boycott against toyota exactly how toyora is handling their boycott against toyota by fully ignoring it way to make a stand guys NUMBER_TOKEN other organizations have joined but what are we supposed to boycott if you don't mind buying gas cars i guess you have no problem buying one from toyota and if you're only buying electric cars well there is nothing you can not buy from them since they're not making any it's like boycotting taco bell because they don't serve fresh for gua i mean if you're sitting in the drive-through of a taco bell at two o'clock in the morning you probably don't know what that is and i don't mean fargo i mean fresh food and do boycotts really work and is toyota really the right automaker to organize a boycott against at this point for answers as always we turn to the forbes contributor and the host of the state of charge youtube channel tom malogne but before that a quick reminder that this video is brought to you by our new sponsor energypel if you are shopping for your home's solar system it is the best place online to shop review and compare quotes they will do all of the hard work for you and you get to save you'll get the best rates and once your installation is complete you'll get an eNUMBER_TOKEN electric viewer exclusive NUMBER_TOKEN gift card when you use the link in the description of this video all right tom so we know toyota has been pretty anti-ev but at the same time lately you know they made some progress so are they really the top brand to go after as far as the anti-av movement or there are other ones like mazda and honda that deserve it more so what makes it so bad with toyota alex in my opinion is that they're one of the largest automakers in the world they have the resources to be have a far advanced electrification program they just chose not to they chose to stick with hybrids companies like mazda and honda they're much smaller companies they don't have the deep pockets that toyota has and hey honda's already selling a fully electric car in europe it's not here in the u.s mazda's bringing one out in a couple of months and they're tiny little companies toyota is purposely slow walking electrification outs because they want to continue selling hybrids now do you think then the old school boycott like
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