Hybrids make so much more sense. You’ve got the gasoline engine for quick refueling and long-distance trips. You’ve got the electric motors for in-town driving where low pollution and quietness are important. You’ve got regenerative braking capturing kinetic energy in town for high fuel economy in frequent stop and go driving regimes. And finally you’ve got the gasoline engine to power the car and recharge the batteries when they are exhausted.
I find it ironic that the hybrid cars use a fossil fuel engine to backup the electric motor plant, just like you need fossil fuel engines to backup wind and solar when they don’t work. Everything depends on fossil fuel engine backup!
A Toyota hybrid cost much less, is more reliable, is easier to get parts for, can function when there is an electrical blackout, and gets excellent mileage.
When Tesla gets something in the $25K range (still too much for any vehicle short of a big rig or F1 car in my chap-ass opinion) I might give a fig.
We recently rented a Toyota Sienna hybrid for a vacation. It got 36MPG.
Unfortunately, hybrids do not last as long as ICE cars and cost more to maintain, so the logical tack is to lease.
Tesla owns the EV market.
Toyota owns the Hybrid market.
All others are just wana-be.
This EV push is going to destroy what little remains of Detroit.
I am hearing stories of lots of white collar layoffs in Detroit.
For the foreseeable future, both are correct.
UAW plagued GM, Ford and Stellates are doomed to reduced market share.
Us gas only drivers rooting for the hybrid Toyota Prius to save our gasoline supply from being taken off the market.
Go Toyota Prius.
Drove an aunt’s Prius from central Kansas to Marietta Georgia and back. I did most of the driving - she has a few years on me.
Ran nice, reasonably comfortable for four days on the road down and back. Mileage was 57 MPG and I am not light on the gas. A little shy on power for my tastes but good enough.
It’s a perfectly reasonable choice and I understand why Toyota sells a lot of them. I’ll stick with my ICE but I was pleasantly surprised by the Prius.
Going to a Toyota plant next week.
Construction site
Batteries
8 Billion
I wish Tesla would make a hybrid.
EVs are not going to be suitable in much of the world’s landmasses. Africa and South America do not have the infrastructure nor most of Asia. The entire world is Toyota’s market. Not just a handful of countries run by eco loonies.
This seems very backward to me. Battery cars are not the norm, to which other things are an alternative. Hybrids are a modification of the drive-train in fuel powered car, offering possible improvements in fuel efficiency.
Battery cars are an alternative to fueled cars. Fueled cars burn the fuel onboard; battery cars burn their fuel at a distant location.
The article has propaganda cleverly hidden in it.
More propaganda. A hybrid car is, BY DEFINITION, an internal combustion powered car.