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Toyota, Panasonic to jointly produce electric car batteries

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That's wonderful news.

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Electric cars are perfect for Japan. They would be useless in Australia. But in Japanese cities they will be perfect.

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@Insane Wayne

Electric cars are perfect for Japan.

Japan has no place to charge EVs in densely urban areas. This is why Japanese automakers have been pushing Hydrogen Fuel Cell vehicles in place of EVs.

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Japan has no place to charge EVs in densely urban areas.

If there's a place to park a car, there's effectively a place to charge it. I don't think that's the reason for Hydrogen Fuel Cell development.

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Will they place the battery in a location that's easy to swap out a dead one for a charges one...like the spot gas cars have their battery?

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Charges = charged...

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Samit Basu:

Japan has no place to charge EVs in densely urban areas. 

Japan today has a large number of EV charge points (40,000) , greater than number of gas stations (35,000).

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/10/japan-electric-car-charge-points-petrol-stations

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