Comments by "TheThirdMan" (@thethirdman225) on "Why Do Electric Cars Only Have 1 Gear?" video.

  1. +Erik Stephens "Automotive batteries today are designed to last the life of the car.   And if by some chance you want to keep the car and maintain it to last 30 years batteries will be a lot cheaper by then." Exactly. I recently bought a Toyota Camry Hybrid. Everyone said the same thing: that the batteries wear out but I looked into it and found that, if anything, the reverse is true. Toyota regard the battery pack as a life of vehicle component. The alternative was a car with a gearbox and I found that while a replacement gearbox costs about the same as a replacement battery pack (remember CVTs are incredibly reliable), the reliability of a gearbox was, if anything, lower than a battery pack. As you said, the price of batteries is coming down but the price of a gearbox is mostly going up. Most people who spurn the idea of a hybrid would probably never buy one anyway and a lot of this is due to poor understanding and a large amount of stigma-driven disinformation. I get 900 kms out of a tank. My old V6 Kluger used to get 350 out of the same size tank. Guess who's laughing?
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  2. +Borivoje Travica This is not true. Toyota regard their battery packs was a life of vehicle component and there are plenty of Toyota hybrids which have done more than half a million kilometres.  Their failure rate is actually lower than that of a gearbox and unlike gearboxes, whose complexity and cost is going up, battery packs are becoming cheaper all the time. Furthermore, someone tested two battery packs - one from 2001 and another from 2011 and found the difference was negligible. If you don't want to buy a hybrid then don't but that's a matter for you. But don't tell us they're less reliable and more expensive to fix because they are not. I did not believe it until I researched it. That's why I have a hybrid now. If anything, they are more reliable than other cars.
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  3. Alright, I'll put it another way: Toyota guarantee their batteries for 160,000 kms or 8 years. That is easy to find out. How many car engines or gearboxes have that sort of backup? None that I know of. There will be no warranty on your car's LPG system beyond a basic workshop warranty and few motor manufacturers will take a favourable view of putting an LPG system on your car. Some will cooperate but most will not.
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  4. +Borivoje Travica "I don't speak about hybrid they still use 5-7 litres per 100km" Mine gets 5.5 l/100 kms. Most do better than that. A Prius should get under 4L/100km but mine is a bit bigger anyway. "Tell me how much cost 50kWh batteries pack of lion with 1500 cycles charging" Nobody uses LiPo packs. They're too dangerous. Toyota uses NiMH. "Oils and lpg have lots of room to price go down if we looked manufacture cost of produced if be batteries cost go down." The price of oil is going in one direction. Up. Oil will never be cheap again. "tell me where I can by and how much cost per kWh and how much cycles I have, with how much dropping capacity per cycles....and I give to you mathematics not dream" Well, a new battery pack used to cost about AU $4,500 but now can be had for about AU $2,500 (about 1,800 Euro) from third party manufacturers. Toyota have been making these things for 20 years. It's mature technology. I have no idea how many charge cycles it can take. I can just cite that example of the battery pack from 2001 and one from 2011 that I quoted earlier. "No answer" You might be disappointed to know that I don't spend my entire life on YouTube.
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