https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1139936_toyota-teases-crown-electric-sedan-efficiency-boosting-ev- tech
What's with the muscle car style super tall front hood? I look at that photo and all I can think of is how all other EV makers have storage under the hood... Whereas even in Toyota's newest EV designs they have a bunch of obnoxiously large and unrefined and overly complex parts under the front hood with zero room for storage. It's like putting lipstick on a hybrid pig and telling consumers its the same kind of EV donkey that all the other car builders are building, but its not. Nowhere even close... Toyota is a huge amount of years behind other car makers in so many way when it comes to EV.
That photo could be of the crossover sedan. Seems news sites are mining Toyota's big presentation for multiple pieces. Toyota Unveils New Technology That Will Change the Future of Cars | PriusChat
The taller hood is probably due to European pedestrian crash safety standards. They require that the head of a pedestrian not make contact with anything under the hood when said head hits the hood.
Wow... No shortage of metaphors and irony in that... And I guess this explains why you don't see American trucks sold in the EU. Most new trucks these days in US would hit the average height person in the head with their headlights if you were a pedestrian. And it's not just the politics of the drivers of these big dumb trucks that are deadly, but they can't see what's in front of them and lots more people are dying, but you know, America is about "Freedumb." "Pedestrian deaths on American roads have risen by more than 70 percent since 2010, an increase that safe-streets advocates ascribe partly to our national love affair with trucks. Vehicles struck and killed 7,388 pedestrians in 2021, compared to 4,302 in 2010, according to federal crash data tabulated by The Hill. Pedestrian deaths rose by another 5 percent in the first half of 2022. Trucks aren’t solely to blame, but they are a key factor. The number of pedestrians killed by light utility trucks, the most common culprit after cars in the latest federal data, more than doubled between 2010 and 2021, from 732 to 1,773. “There’s this race to the bottom of people buying more large cars because they want to feel safer around all of the other large cars,” said Rebecca Sanders, founder of Safe Streets Research & Consulting, a crash analysis firm. “We are ever more vulnerable, ever more at risk, from these larger vehicles.” https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/3976315-pedestrian-deaths-have-risen-70-percent-since-2010-blame-trucks/
