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I hated the original Prius. It had no right to call itself a "hybrid". It had one source of power: gasoline. This seriously confused the market and the press wh
by fortran77 2y ago
I hated the original Prius. It had no right to call itself a "hybrid". It had one source of power: gasoline. This seriously confused the market and the press when the Volt -- a true Hybrid with electric and gas -- came out. I wish regulators defined the word "Hybrid" and limitied its use in marketing.
Family Guy got the meaning of "Prius--and the type of self-righteous person who drove it--exactly right.
- philistine 2y agoLet's pretend regenerative braking doesn't exist.
- fortran77 2y ago[flagged]
- snypher 2y agoIt seems strange to die on a semantic hill while calling others self-righteous.
- jazzyjackson 2y agoNegative ghostwriter, gasoline may be the only input, but stored inertia is energy too, and it's a hybrid because it has two kinds of motors that work in tandem to increase efficiency, who said hybrid meant two types of fuel?
- selimthegrim 2y agofortran77 never has a second cup of gasoline at home.
- IX-103 2y agoSo does everything. Everything runs off of entropic decay of the universe. Almost all the power we use is solar (stored energy from the sun). Nuclear is an exception, in that the energy didn't come from Sol, but some other star that went Nova in the ancient past. Anyway, a Prius was a "hybrid" in the same sense as previous gas-electric cars and is the same nomenclature used for diesel trains with electric drive.
- Toutouxc 2y agoHuh? It’s a hybrid, by definition, always has been. What is it exactly that you think confused the market?
- fortran77 2y ago[flagged]
- Toutouxc 2y agoYes, the word “hybrid” itself doesn’t say anything about the power source. Maybe you’re thinking of “plug-in hybrid”? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_hybrid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_hybrid
- wpm 2y agoYou have repeatedly stated this without explanation as to how it supports your position. A BEV can be charged entirely by a gasoline powered generator, does that mean it simply ceases to be a BEV?
- tasty_freeze 2y agoI got my a prius in jan 2001. It was $18K and got 45-ish mpg despite that I didn't do anything to try to maximize my mileage. My previous car was a manual Sentra SE-R two door. Despite being a smaller car, it got about 24 mpg and was a similar price (time adjusted). But according to you, those things were not why I bought it, it was because I was self righteous. Let's say you are right: nobody really cares about the Prius price or technical specs and bought it to be seen. Now imagine someone buying something other than a Prius, say a BMW, or a Lexus, or even a lower end car like a Corolla who might dither over the color or trim package. How much ire do you have for those people being vain in caring what impression their car makes? If you don't don't care about the non-prius scenario, it means you don't really care about the vanity aspect of car purchasing decision. Inspect what is really driving your resentment.
- Aurornis 2y ago> It had no right to call itself a "hybrid". It had one source of power: gasoline. That’s the definition of a hybrid. We have a separate phrase for a hybrid that you can plug in. It’s called a “plug in hybrid”. I don’t think it seriously confused the market at all.
- gnkyfrg 2y agoThe other source of energy is kinetic energy. It converts the potential energy of gravity mgh, into electrical energy, back into kinetic energy, 1/2*mv^2. You only put one energy in, the other source is gravity and recycled kinetic. Besides hybrid means two motors gas and electric. Not two inputs.