The dogma ‘kaizen’ unplugs Toyota: why the world’s largest car manufacturer is losing the electric vehicle race

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The dogma ‘kaizen’ unplugs Toyota: why the world’s largest car manufacturer is losing the electric vehicle race

A couple of hours west of Tokyo by bullet train, in the city of Mizunami, an old closed school offers Japanese car manufacturers a very different kind of teaching from those received by high school students. Caresoft engineering company has turned the old educational center into an electric vehicle laboratory. It disassembles cars that go out to the market to study the innovations they contain, as well as its proposals to save costs. Subsequentl…