Toyota and Tesla May Work Together Again

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 9, 2014 @07:20AM from the please-don't-call-it-TnT dept.

cartechboy writes: Tesla and Toyota have already worked together a few times. The factory in which Tesla builds the electric Model S? It bought that from Toyota. The Toyota RAV4 EV? The battery and software tuning was done by Tesla. Now it sounds like Tesla and Toyota might have another significant project in the pipeline in the next two or three years. Tesla CEO Musk said such a project could be "on a much higher volume level" than the firm's last project with Toyota, the RAV4 EV. Toyota currently has a 2.4 percent stake in Tesla Motors and has sold 2,130 RAV4 EVs through August. For its part, Toyota has no comment regarding Musk's statements about the future project. Given Toyota's stance on electric cars, Musk's comment is a bit confusing. So what exactly will this joint project be?

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Re:Tesla stories on Slashdot by PRMan · 2014-09-09 08:09 · Score: 3, Insightful

And yet, nobody started buying them in any significant volume until the last couple years.

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