[matt-attack]

Toyota has done the world no justice by tricking most buyers into thinking they’re somehow leveraging the power of electricity when they buy a hybrid car. As if they’re somehow driving a sort of EV.

As the speaker in the video clearly articulates, a hybrid is a gas burning car. Full stop. (Ignoring plugins).

In fact, the technology very easily could’ve just been transparent to the User, and hardly even marketed. I mean, there’s countless dodads in a car that contribute to its overall improvement in fuel economy, and car companies have been adding these features over the last forty years. None of them have declared the car to be of an entirely new class the way this particular marginal improvement did.

Don’t fool yourself, you’re still driving a gas car, it’s still burning fossil fuels l, just marginally less of them.

If all of this effort had been to migrate to EVs I feel like we’d be in a better position.

[jfengel]

As the speaker in the video clearly articulates, a hybrid is a gas burning car. Full stop

A gas burning car, albeit with somewhat better mileage than a non-hybrid car.

A plugin hybrid really can leverage the power of electricity. And Toyota does make PHEVs, though it's massively outsold by the non-plugin version.

I often hear that a plugin hybrid is what people really want -- an electric car minus range anxiety. But range anxiety is largely overblown, and most people prepared to go electric just get a BEV. For people who can't do that (for example, they don't have access to charging at home), the plugin hybrid offers no advantage.

[reverendjames]

No.