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For the weekend trips you could put in an engine with a power splitter Oh what's this, turns out the ideal car was already invented twenty years ago, it's the
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y ago
For the weekend trips you could put in an engine with a power splitter
Oh what's this, turns out the ideal car was already invented twenty years ago, it's the Toyota Prius
Casually gets 50 mpg city and highway
Small, lightweight battery
Not a super expensive status symbol
The plugin models use very little gas for the daily commute, but you can always drive it like a pure ice car if you need to flee the country on zero notice
- fortran77 2y agoThe Volt was a much better idea. It could be an all electric car—at any speed—for 50 miles or so.
- rnikander 2y agoAgree, the Volt seemed like a good idea. I don’t know the inside story of GM discontinuing that car. I imagined it was corporate dysfunction.
- fortran77 2y agoI owned two of them. They were great. Worked flawlessly.
- progman32 2y agoMy first generation bmw i3 is exactly this. Later models got much bigger battery packs.
- kjkjadksj 2y agoPrius is just doing what a 90s civic did but with more onerous maintenance due to complex powerplant over dead simple 4 banger and manual transmission.