Ford Wants To Build Hybrids Instead of All-Electric Cars. The EPA Hates That.

Reason ^ | August 23, 2024 | Joe Lancaster

[central_va]

and 35-38 in winter due to more ICE use for heat.

The heat used for auto cabin heat is "free" and comes from waste heat.

[Tuxedo]

true but the ICE does run more often than in summer. A/C in this car is ice-cold though... I did have to wait until it was built to get it. They are in high demand still as gas prices remain high here in Metro Detroit. But they are still languish on lots due to new 2025 launches and sky-high prices and interest rates... thanks Joemala....

[GenXPolymath]

You can get new Prius packs for under 2000 bucks. The doubling of gas mileage vs a standard ICE car more than pays for it over a 150,000 or 100000 mile usage.

Prius 52mpg

Comparable sized Corolla 30mpg

100,000 miles at $3 a gallon pretty much the running avg the last few years. The Prius would burn 1400 gallons less at $3 per gallon that’s $4200 in fuel savings. At 150,000 miles which is the usual lifespan of a Prius pack it’s 50% more.

Hybrids make economic sense due to the fuel savings alone.

[GenXPolymath]

He posts that half homes has 60amp boomer folklore all the time. It’s false I have five properties. One of them is a fair house built well over 100 year ago, one is a GI build from 1940s those two both have 100+ amp services and the fuses are long gone they are not code ANY electrical work means a new panel to meet code for so much as adding an outlet anywhere in the structure that is NEMA code so it’s nation wide. I would bet less than 20% of any home has less than 100 amps by now since there is no grandfather clause for home sales nor any rewiring work. Sure some old fuddy living in hillbilly Appalachians might still have a fuse box and 60 amps but I would bank on every suburban, urban and rural structure touched by an electrician after 1970 has 100 amp service or more. My.new build has 300 amp to the main structure and 200 more to the steel building.

[GenXPolymath]

Have you looked at what a Prius used sells for? No resale value hardly. The packs last 150,000 miles or more most times and if one dies you can get a rebuilt one for a grand. I leased a 2023 Prius for 6 months loved it 50+ mpg on the motorway and I saw as high as 82 mpg over a nine mile gridlock crawl in New Orleans, 75 mpg in Houston gridlock and 70mpg over 16 mile drive in Dallas traffic. The slower the traffic the better the mpg exactly opposite to a regular ICE. Regan braking and start run charge stop drain battery, start run charge stop drain battery allows the engine to run at higher efficiency vs idling at less than 5% eff. The 2023 had smart cruise and follow mode where it would come to a halt when the car in front does then with a tap of the resume button follows the car in front till it stops again.Not as good as Tesla fsd but better than having to hold the brakes for hour or more at a time while inch inch inch in real gridlock. Hybrids excel at gridlock no shifting all regen even one mph creep no riding the brakes like an ICE that idles at 5 mph

https://www.greentecauto.com/product-tag/toyota-prius-v

[EVO X]

My parents live in a house that is over 100 years old. The home has gone through several electrical upgrades and other upgrades as well. The original breaker box is still mounted, but not used. There is also a 220V circuit that ran to garage for charging an EV way back in the day. The idea that home electrical hook ups art static is laughable...