Good luck with that logic.
Tony's posting of the candid remarks by Elon Musk make it clear that Toyota BEV's desires are non-existant and its underscored by the lack of any Tesla badging on the vehicle. Not even a tiny sticker! That could be by Toyota's, Tesla's or both insistence. Seems like a proud association would display just that.
I own a Dodge Ram with the Cummins engine which Chrysler proudly displays the Cummins emblem on every one of them. In fact on both sides and sometimes on the back. They market the association in every way.
Which brings me to the original point. Even though the engine in my Dodge is a Cummins, when an injector issue arose out on the road, the local Cummins service center would not even look at it. I had to take the vehicle 150 miles to the local Dodge dealer for warranty work. The only way the Cummins dealer would work on it, was if I paid for everything out-of-pocket and then tried to get reimbursed by Chrysler. Not something I was going to gamble on. I'm sure Toyota and Tesla have the whole warranty thing nailed out contractually.
In February Toyota sold 166,377 vehicles in the US market of which:
17,812 Toyota Prius
693 Plug-in-Prius
54 Rav4EV (and they had to throw a bunch of money at that pathetic number)
There is no money in the Rav4EV. It's counter to their corporate bottom line. To say Toyota's not crazy about this vehicle would be an understatement and I bet they wish they had just bought the ZEV credits from Tesla instead (assuming they were for sale)
