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Hybrids are not EVs. Even plug in hybrids spend most of their lives burning gas. The Solterra is the same car as the Toyota bZ4X and Lexus RZ450e. It is a very
by greenthrow 2y ago
Hybrids are not EVs. Even plug in hybrids spend most of their lives burning gas.
The Solterra is the same car as the Toyota bZ4X and Lexus RZ450e. It is a very mediocre EV, far behind its competition in efficiency and charging. It demonstrates as well as anything Toyota's absolute refusal to take EVs seriously.
- maxsilver 2y ago> Even plug in hybrids spend most of their lives burning gas. They don't. PHEV's spend 50%-80% of their time on electric only, if you use them properly. (Just plug them in once each evening). > The Solterra (snip) is a very mediocre EV, far behind its competition in efficiency and charging. The Solterra is roughly competitive with a Tesla Model 3 (Standard Range) or a Chevy Bolt. Which is fine, they're all reasonable EVs, but I'd still call all of these "first generation consumer EVs". We're at the "everyone has a BlackBerry, the iPhone hasn't been released yet" stage of automotive EVs, in my humble opinion.
- SideburnsOfDoom 2y ago> They don't. PHEV's spend 50%-80% of their time on electric only, if you use them properly. If. And since that "if" is false, then the "they don't" is also false. https://electrek.co/2024/03/25/yet-another-study-shows-plug-in-hybrids-arent-as-clean-as-we-thought/ https://electrek.co/2024/03/25/yet-another-study-shows-plug-...
- greenthrow 2y agoPeople don't use Plugin Hybrids that way, though. Studies have shown people don't plug them in. Which is exactly what you should expect because someone buys a hybrid because they want to continue driving an ICE car.