Toyota's new wooden electric car

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Wood is neither easy to work with nor cheap.

Why not recycled plastic put through the process used for making compost bins etc? It would need strengthening ribs to give it more engineered qualities. Maybe a frame of appropriate strength using another material.

This is obviously just a marketing thing as no one would realistically ever make a production model car out of wood, although I used to own a 1919 willys overland that had a large amount of wood used in the construction.  My Benz has some wood trim on the console but it is probably faux wood. 

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If your Benz is like my Benz then the "wood" trim is actually plastic.  More toxic fumes to put you out of your misery sooner.