FOR the better part of the last decade, the automotive world has been trying to bury Toyota. First, it was supposedly too conservative. Then it was too reliant on hybrids. Later, it was accused of being anti-electric vehicles (EV). When Chinese manufacturers began flooding global markets with increasingly affordable EVs, the consensus among analysts was simple: Toyota had missed the future.Yet, here we are. The future arrived. Toyota is still No. 1.Meanwhile, many of the companies that loudly proclaimed the end of the internal combustion engine are quietly revising their electrification targets, delaying EV investments, and scrambling to restore profitability....