Toyota is blaming gasoline pricing for wear sales in China.
But I am currently living in Hong Kong, and every time I do a trip in mainland China it impresses how much and how quickly EVs are taking over. the large majority of recent looking cars on the road are EVs. Toyota made a late and half hearted push to EVs, it seems to be increasingly successful with them globally, but in China you have to compete with many pretty sophisticated and well priced local offerings.
I read that successful young Chinese don't even crave prestigious foreign cars like BMW, Lexus etc that much anymore, they literally consider them as "cars for parents", they tend to find their own products more cool. Well, they are not wrong: I was able to check out the Xiaomi YU7 SUV (the one that looks a little like a purosangue) and wow was that impressive. Great refinement, plus the kids adored that it has a Capybara mascot on the screen.

The thrusters will only be allowed on a few racing tracks, but what a launch event it was. They really humiliated all the traditional supercar brands out there. It looks like it is the same tech that lets SpaceX fuel tanks land safely after use. Incredible to see.
The extreme downforce fan will likely be road legal, will be interesting to see how well it will corner vs the traditional supercars.
Now I hate to be the party pooper, but I question if this is the car that Tesla needs now. S and X are out of production, Cybertruck is a flop, 3 and Y are getting old - especially vs the impressive Chinese car invasion outside USA.

It is real, I just watch the launch event video, it is incredible.

I have been quite curious about it as a science fiction lover, but I thought that it shines mainly as a multiplayer game?

FYI Jia Zhangke is one of China's top directors. He won the Golden Lion in Venice, and several other accolades. Typically he makes subtle films.
Out of curiosity he spent a few days with an AI video generation tool, and released a short film in in time for Chinese New Year.
You can see it here on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
He made a short meditation about creativity and identity, showing himself and an AI version of himself (though, of course, both instances were AI generated). It features images from a few of his movies, but you can enjoy without having seen those.
I was initially very much against AI films, but this short film shows what a consummate storyteller can do with the tool. Worth 5 minutes of your time.

Calls themselves a security researcher yet quickly posts code that is not theirs on a github. Not cool.

this was exactly my observation. It doesn't seem like a good solution to me.

Eventually there will be a sane person leading USA again, unfortunately a lot of time of that term will be needed just to reverse all the current stupidity..

I think what an awesome family name he has.

Like most of Issey Miyake's products and garments, it looks and presumably feels nice. I know, it is unreasonably expensive yet I like it as product design.
Miyake himself has passed on, it is worth googling his truly incredible artful fashion designs. This is made by his team, and it keeps that vibe.

no no he bought a young 2nd hand one that benefited from tax benefits for close to 30k, impressive good deal

Colleague of mine bought a young 2nd hand VW EV (ID 5 if I remember well), in Luxembourg from a VW dealer and drove it to his home in Belgium. Very nice car, and it was priced very attractively. Looks big enough inside for you and your family. Similarly spacious as my Y.

I thought the same about brand specific UIs before I got my Y. But must be said that I don't really miss CarPlay in it. The Y has a nice UI that is more sophisticated than the CarPlay UI. Yes I do play a little per month for connectivity, but not much really, and it allows me to see live traffic conditions in the gps or play my music and podcasts even if I don't have my phone with me.

Surprisingly, it will not be a Pininfarina design, rather Ferrari asked...
Marc Newson and Jony Ive's Lovefrom!
These are celebrated designers, however they have to my knowledge never designed a car.
It looks like Ferrari really wanted to have a blue sky approach for this important new car.

About the sound: check a YouTube test of the Lotus Evija EV hypercar. It sounds like a jetfighter engine, without fake sound generation. I can imagine Ferrari being able to design a cool sound for their car.

I had expected Craig Federighi, being in most keynotes since a long time. But Ternus seems super capable as well.