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This is truly genius engineering. Initially you would think hybrid vehicles must be more complex and less reliable than conventional vehicles because they have
by riobard 12y ago
This is truly genius engineering. Initially you would think hybrid vehicles must be more complex and less reliable than conventional vehicles because they have another system to fail, right? Turns out Toyota figured out a way to make hybrid vehicles structurally simpler, more reliable and energy efficient. Really well done.
- ak217 12y agoI believe the Prius is definitely more complex than a typical ICE car. It has many, many other systems to support the hybrid drive in addition to the power split device, including many that are genuine innovations too. It's a testament to how good that team's engineering is that the Prius is generally considered reliable (unlike the piece of crap that the Toyota ETCS ECU was until the recent crackdown - http://betterembsw.blogspot.com/2014/09/a-case-study-of-toyota-unintended.html http://betterembsw.blogspot.com/2014/09/a-case-study-of-toyo...).