> All their other stuff are PHEV which don't need (or support) fast charging.
The NACS plug supports L1, L2, and L3 charging, and there definitely are NACS L2 chargers in the wild.
A minority compared to J1772, sure, but all the EVSE manufacturers have said future chargers will at least optionally have NACS.
We're in a time of transition where more and more chargers - including L2 - will have NACS instead of J1772.
Toyota's PHEVs having J1772 won't be a problem now, or in 2 years, or in 4... But as time marches on there will be a point where finding a J1772 L2 charger is harder than finding an NACS L2 chargers.
Yes yes, you can adapt NACS to J1772 the same way you can adapt J1772 to NACS... But Tesla owners are moving from a world where they always need their adapters to where they won't need one... And I'm not sure people who have never needed an adapter will be thrilled to start needing one.
Considering the used car market of ~8 years from now is being determined by new cars today, the longer Toyota drags their feet here, the larger their continued reputation hit will be in the long run.
And the very remote areas that may have just 1 gas station are also least likely to have high EV penetration until the absolutely tail-end of the ICE-era.
The NACS plug supports L1, L2, and L3 charging, and there definitely are NACS L2 chargers in the wild.
A minority compared to J1772, sure, but all the EVSE manufacturers have said future chargers will at least optionally have NACS.
We're in a time of transition where more and more chargers - including L2 - will have NACS instead of J1772.
Toyota's PHEVs having J1772 won't be a problem now, or in 2 years, or in 4... But as time marches on there will be a point where finding a J1772 L2 charger is harder than finding an NACS L2 chargers.
Yes yes, you can adapt NACS to J1772 the same way you can adapt J1772 to NACS... But Tesla owners are moving from a world where they always need their adapters to where they won't need one... And I'm not sure people who have never needed an adapter will be thrilled to start needing one.
Considering the used car market of ~8 years from now is being determined by new cars today, the longer Toyota drags their feet here, the larger their continued reputation hit will be in the long run.