Steering has gone out twice on a family member’s Model Y. N=1 example but plenty of other companies now make EVs and they do a decent job of it… shedding 29% still leaves the company at an astronomical valuation, ~100bn larger market cap than Toyota.
Toyota's [IMHO correct] insistance on manufacturing hybrids instead of full-EVs is what is going to help them be so successful. My Camry hybrid gets 50mpg+, and "re-charging" it on roadtrips is as simple as filling the gastank.
Also, steering-by-wire is not exclusive to electric cars, it's common ICE's as well - so it's even more apalling to have catastrophic steering failure on a new car, it's not the bleeding edge of tech.
