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Toyota and Tesla have been spotted holding hands behind the school gym
on numerous occasions and now, finally, the result of their long hours
working together in the craft room are being shown to the world. It's
the RAV4 EV, announced earlier this year and finally unveiled at the
Los Angeles Auto Show. Current pre-production models are delivering
100 miles per charge but apparently still need some climate-proofing
to ensure that the 2012 version will hit that range regardless of
conditions. That's a big deal for a big SUV, and of course it's a big
deal for Tesla, which is providing the powertrain. It's also a good
news for Elon Musk, surely injecting some much-needed funding to the
company and, as he says, introducing other benefits as well:
We're giving Toyota a window into the entrepreneurial, Silicon Valley
culture and, vice versa, we're getting a sense for the Toyota
production system... I think we're learning a lot form Toyota,
bidirectionally, in this process and I think that helps us with the
Model S. Having access to Lexus components in the supply chain is also
helpful.
In other words, expect the production Model S interior to be a little
less fanciful and a little more familiar.
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