Comments by "Be Low Below" (@toyotaprius79) on "Kirk Kreifels" channel.

  1. Kinda relieved, kind of, that this new pick up is getting a hybrid. It's both long overdue and unexpected for Toyota.
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  2. 25kW at 48volts, a bit different than Honda's old IMA. I was hoping that Toyota could supply a 3 cylinder hybrid like the Aqua's/Prius C and fit it in longitudinally somehow. Their torque, efficiency with a light weight chassis would be really desirable
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  3. And the Wagon
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  4. Here's the thing, automakers made profits by using tooling and parts for decades such as engines and transmissions. It's a +100 year old industry that's now being outpaced in a rapidly evolving marketplace globally. EVs like computers are advancing so quickly that if Nissan focused on mass producing and reducing the cost of its first generation battery cells, it would be left far further in the dust by other competitors. That's why every automaker from VW (pre dieselgate) to Toyota pushed back against any electrification because they lack the ingenuity to change business model, especially investors and executives, and it's why for so long they lambasted that there's no market for EVs until Tesla and legislation globally said otherwise.
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  5. Hey Kirk. Shouldn't Toyota not consider shipping in the Aqua back to Western markets? Of course there's the Yaris in Europe but they're two complete different cars. Most manufacturers have dismissed small cars out of market projections from 2018.
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  6. Their attempts to comply with new emissions regulations have been less faithful than it was in developing the Prius and hybrid drivetrains.
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  7.  @sundownfilms9058  I would love a rotary MX5 or kei car. I would doubly love a rotary hybrid (more similar to a Prius or Honda CRZ) that's more direct to the road wheels but helped greatly by an electric motor or two.
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  8. Cobalt is already used to remove Sulphur in the refinery process. For god's sake 🤦
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  9. This is the macroeconomic result of an industry that relies in crossovers to maximize profits. Maximizing profits begets inflation. Inflation reduces the value of profits, and you get the picture
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  10. Yaaaas! But it can't just leave the entry level market. My ongoing disappointment with Toyota will persist (i rather it not), given how they treated the Prius here in the EU market since the 2nd gen. The US and Japan had base levels, even the UK, but many places such as Ireland they didn't understand who would be in the market place foran affordable "alternative fuel vehicle", so they exclusively sold it as a posh item , a base Lexus by price. Gen 3 Priuses were only top spec and badly priced at 30 grand, a stone's throw from the CT200h. But they had no problems pushing turbo diesels.
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  11. You're getting warmer. What you can identify is that the demographic of car buyers is growing older, smaller and wealthier. That's the demographic for profitable premium crossovers that incidentally creates inflation, reducing the value of profits, creating price hikes and do on. Not only does that alienate more people, especially under the age of 50 years away from new cars, it pushes more pressure on the much larger second hand market which has been exploited to no end. If your government (and markets) can identify that most young people can't afford a lease on a second car let alone want one - then that can scare your economy into a crisis
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  12. This honestly makes me sad for the years these options have been deprived across the US market. There's a Wagon Corolla hybrid in the EU that virtually unknown, especially with a 2.0l engine. Imagine, a Corolla hybrid station wagon with eAWD, possibly as a PRIME? Something is dead wrong with Toyota's executions on consumer interest and market speculation... By mid decade what we saw were short term actions like axeing the Prius C and Plus and complying with market regulations which thankfully brought us the PRIME plugin hybrid It's like Toyota wasted time and sat on its laurels throughout the 2010s. The eAWD hybrids are the more desirable hybrid in the US interior. An eAWD small/mid size pickup hybrid would be the holy grail, hence the Ford Maverick. Has nobody seen all the Prius-truck conversions? The car alone is a proven workhorse. The lack of awareness from Toyota is infuriating. It's maddening for what the hybrid synergy engines could actually do. The eAWD existed in Japan since 2015
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  13. The MallFinder
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  14. In case anyone had forgotten LG Chem/Energy and General Motors had quite the firey relationship with the Chevrolet Bolt.
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  15. Not a hatch. Come on.
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  16. Remember, the economy we live with creates its own contradictions. Such as eventually creating an oversupply in anticipation to achieve maximum growth and profit. Especially when said maxium growth means crossovers and premium across every competitor. And consumers are increasingly priced out of the market, infaltion helping that divide too, especially driven by an industry wide pursuit of maxium profiteering. Have they not learned from the last crash?
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  17. The more upmarket and expensive it goes, the further it moves away from the whole point of the Prius.
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  18. American market (and now the Europeans) are chasing the diminishing pie of profitability. Why cars are growing into premium crossovers and SUVs is because inflation is reducing the value of profits, so those who actually run the car companies decide that small, entry cars are not viable, while believing Audi and Tesla competitors are what people actually want? There's only an economic crash and burn at the end of this road.
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  19. 10 years not enough
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  20. No ePower in the US. That's a problem worth noting
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  21. Imagine a PRIME Truck like the Ford Maverick hybrid if it plugged in... Opportunities are being wasted left and right by these giant automakers.
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  22. They're missing out on a crucially easy and lucrative market. "Soft roader" camper priuses and pick up priuses/hybrids.
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  23. Give it up If California didn't have it's vehicle emissions regulations in the 90s, there would be no Prius and Toyota would be more happy to not make hybrids, let alone EVs Even with a monopoly on hybrids Toyota has squandered the 2010s. Don't hold your breath for Toyota
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  24. That was back during the 2nd Gen Prius. German cars from the 2000s definitely don't age or last as well or as long
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  25. Annoyingly something they could've done since the 2000s, but market emissions regulations didn't force them to.
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  26. It's helped by the fact that a lot of BEV news are dominated by Executive and Exclusive cars and SUVs. It sucks. The best EV news are affordable, efficient, sustainable, attainable and practical EVs. Looking forward to a big surprise from the 5th generation Prius that really does perform as a strong all rounder - hopefully for Toyota just before Aptera starts cranking out their cars which may steal their lunch.
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  27. Doesn't Toyota know that there's a whole community of Prius drivers that like to upgrade their cars? And to keep them running as long as possible? "Outlanding" suspension lift kits, camper conversions, antiroll bars and braces, battery balancing chargers and PHEV kits. On board inverters to power air fryers and appliances. Anti theft Catalytic converter shields. ...
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  28. A man could dream
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  29. Now if only Nissan made an EV Note or Micra. Or a PHEV ePower
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  30. Nonsense. Mitsubishi iMiEV was re engineered for 4 star crash safety. Smart cars were always wrongly shamed as unsafe. Modern Kei cars are as good as any A and B segment car in crash safety.
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  31. Why is it so hard for Toyota to make a 1.6l tubro or superchrg 3 cyl hybrid with stronger batteries anf shove it in a sporty Yaris GR, Prius, anything?
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  32. The electric cars that people want are options that you can only find built in China. Europe is having the same problem. If you told someone back in 2005 that there would be a €50,000 Hyundai or KIA as a mid range car in 2020 they'd laugh. Even regular combustion engine cars like before 2008 have grown in an unsustainable fashion where there's an oversaturation of the samey kind of vehicle while making (advertising to) consumers believe they're being spoiled for choice.
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  33. It comes as an all electric version, but not a Prime?
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  34. Far far too late to be implementing "cost effective" electrification. BMW and Mercedes have been doing this since 2016. It's not going too well ...
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  35. It's nice that the i-MiEV does have a successor now, I do miss the jellybean shape, whether that old 2005 design is more efficient is a thought for another day. The absence of any other kei EV car in the JDM market was most strange. More surprising is that there isn't a Nissan e-power hybrid kei car, a shrunken down Note. Imagine, a tiny light little thing with a 63hp electric motor and God knows how much torque.
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  36. A tale as old as time lol. I always liked the Prius (in receipt of the iconic American hate) but it definitely had an issue with design inconsistency. It's neither evolutionary or revolutionary. It's a mix n match of details that some of us "Prius fans" just put up with. There are good elements in each, but they're never kept. Gen 1 was cuute but frumpy. Gen 2 had a new millennium sleekness about it - but also boring and a not so good rear (rounded off, chrome lights instead of tint wrap around), the interior was spacious in design, but it was also cheap/quickly designed. Gen 3 tried to be mainstream for the wrong reasons in the interior (cabin bridge) and its front fascia attempted the cuteness of Gen 1 but botched it, keeping the baby mustache under the badge. The gen 3's rear spoiler and light cluster were sharp 👌 Then gen 4 came along which was a mix and match of everything. Despite being so polarizing (and more similar looking to Lexuses in 2015-2017) and angry faced, the design language had nore effort in it, the rear tail lights are beautifully mad at night. The lifting beltline at rear windows and lack of a C-D pillar window sucks. Some design choices were too much than what they're worth; The rear tail lights were vulnerable to getting it; especially in the Prius Prime the fascia's acrylic nose and LED clusters are very expensive to fix - as well as the bubble rear hatch made of carbon fibre.
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  37. Toyota is kinda infamous for never listening to Prius owners. Their PR team especially Prius owners were making DIY plugin kits since 2006, chopped Prius truck memes everywhere and the lifted Priuses with 8" ground clearance and +1000W inverters for cooking while camping grew popular in the last 5 years.
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  38. What's with all the alpha advertising with so many ebikes? Especially for the US market
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  39. They already did. Toyota should've made the Ford Maverick hybrid a decade ago.
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  40. Hate to break it to you but there is plenty of demand. If you don't know where the EV infrastructure is then you simply don't care to know.
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  41. It's been a long while. It can depend on state by state, normally at just a few hundred dollars or a grand.
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  42. Learning that the aero Cd increased to 0.27 and the cargo capacity reduced, I'm still biting my nails that the Prius was formed to appease market tastes rather than make a clever, ergonomic and practically designed car.
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  43. 1st off: why can't Toyota fit a "normal" power split device hybrid in any of its trucks and vans? Should've been done 10yrs ago Second: 40K base😬😕😒🙄 should we feel surprised by this?
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  44. What would happen if those lithium salt deposits are nationalised in the domestic nation? Like what happened to Bolivia?
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  45. Not little
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  46. ​ @Hallowsaw but you can spend 45 grand on an ICE crossover? C'mon
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  47. What will Electric Viking say?
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  48. I would not entertain the segment either car competes in, but I would favour the Nissan Aria. It has active cooling now...
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  49.  @1985toyotacamry  They still produce and advertise diesel only commercial vehicles , not anything to do with concrete differences between oil burners and hybrids, but simply due to confirming to blanket commercial law and tax exemptions; diesel is still tax deductible for many businesses in many eu countries. Logically it would be unnecessary to invest in making a Prius if there weren't going to be any industry laws dictating otherwise. Toyota is simply running as a business 🤔
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  50. Pity. The Mirage needed more variety. The sedan comes from its prevelance for the south Asian markets it's built in. If only western markets were offered a wagon Mirage, manual , hybrid or EV could've been interesting if the will power were there. It would be the closest thing to a Dacia.
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  51. Engineers can't do what the executives don't want them to...
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  52. Could this Prime be competing against the MX30 range extender as plugin hybrids? If the kammback Prius has to deal with inferior cargo space to the rest of its generations, I certainly hope Toyota has a station wagon considered.
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  53. It's disappointing they aren't going far enough with electrification. Mild hybrids are a bare minimum. Make it 72 volts, same as a Renault Twizy. Given Mazda's past cooperation with Toyota, I would've thought they would utilise their hybrid transmission and jazz it up like Lexus' with a 4 speed between the planetary gearset and the driveshaft. Imagine a rotary powered hybrid instead of a 4 cylinder.
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  54. Do you have a PHEV or Prius Prime or do you actually do city driving cause with the experience I had you couldn't recharge the hybrid's battery sufficiently unless you're on 40mph roads or more. Below that and especially slow speeds diminishes the battery capacity more than it can regen, relying on heavy idle charge from the engine
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  55. Afaik you can claim the EV incentive on the lease
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  56. Toyota should just sell the Corolla hatch (from EU) as a plugin hybrid PRIME or jdm import the Sienta which is like a 3 row minivan priusC, cut the techy crap and BOOM , new sales sensation.
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  57. Electrification does mean anywhere starting from 24 volt to 48 volt mild hybrid systems. If Mazda can pull off what the Honda CRZ couldn't in efficiency and performance, then I guess that's still welcomed. That was just a ~ 120v system with a 13hp motor Idk man, 2030 feels like it's already too late to call. If going full EV with a lightweight battery and a rotary REx is too much for them, then I trust Mazda to really innovate with Toyota's hybrid drivetrains, or maybe give a proper use for the highly discussed Wankel REx across more cars. Seriously though, had anyone thought of swapping an Atkinson engine from a hybrid with rotaries? They're both compensated for low torque in a parallel/series hybrid.
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  58. Feels too little too late
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  59. There's one thing I'm very worried about Toyota and how they carried the Prius They will misunderstood the appeal for the utility that the 2nd Gen Prius was popular for. High practicality in a roomy, aerodynamic package If they're going to tart up a pig and assume Prius drivers are snobbish and want to be seen, they might as well make an unpractical CUV, or what they did to the first 4 seater Prius Prime, or something like how GM turned the Chevy Volt to the Cadillac
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  60. The whole patent protections is why there hasn't been enough hybrids alone built. Don't be spreading fear and disinfo on the basis of battery chemistry. It's all down to the engineering of the Battery's ECU. If you believe that a company cheaper out on making proper battery management, then you'd be interested in the reason why companies cut costs in the first place while seeking unsustainable growth quarter after quarter. Likewise the same reason why a company would put more money, time and effort dismissing electric cars rather than investing while continuing to profit off of internal combustion until it's too late in a competitive market.
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  61. That has been the advice since the 2013 Nissan LEAF
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  62. They're equally bad. One is a tasteless meme, the other was phoned in
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  63.  @CACressida  dude...
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  64. It is a compliance car after all. Let's not forget, that Toyota is relying hard on BYD's technology for a sudden switch to the end of fossil-fuel sales
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  65. ​ @alexnutcasio936 it's a testament of Toyota's leadership
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  66. Do people still buy +2 tonne pretentious brand and status statements whilst driving over the limit in a school zone? 💀💀
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  67. Sankura would be very desirable in Europe. Japanese competition for the Citroën ë-C3, Dacia Spring, Leapmotors T03, Renault Twingo, VW eUP!. It's beyond disappointing how Nissan's board of directors can't see that.
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  68. Speak for yourself If you're what the executives like to pander to, then they'll say that people only want crossovers by advertising nothing but. You don't think its a symptom of the entire market and economy where people are not confident in spending in a market rife with extortionately profitable, inflating creating premium crossovers? Learn what a spluttering economy looks like before it croaks
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  69. If the LEAF had some extra power and tuning, it would be difficult to call that a hot hatch. It's too big.
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  70. This would be easy for Toyota's engineers. A Prius Prime's battery can output over 80hp, it's the standard motor and inverters that holds it back, whereas the European Corolla hybrid benefits from more power
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  71. Nice. This plug in range, but with 1.8l and 1.5l (or smaller) hybrids. Plug in hybrids should not have to be an exclusive luxury item.
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  72. Dealerships just take the bulk of the tax rebate. They know it. They create market wide inflation. That's how most industries do it if they all rase prices together and not in competition against one another
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  73. It can if it were a multi speed final output after the HSD system
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  74. The kamm back Ioniq was better by being a more practical and efficient design alone. A model that Hyundai axed for the crossover Kona
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  75. Even better if it plugged in
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  76. That's exactly what bolt on lift kits for Priuses offered for years. Surely, Toyota should know who prius drivers are in the aftermarket scene.
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  77. Speaking of macroeconomics Crossovers; They're everywhere, they're very profitable despite not costing anymore than a hatchback to manufacture, but with just more ride height, space inside and "premium touch" items. And what we have unwittingly gotten is inflation by the product of demanding rampant profiteering quarter after quarter. More profits means more ROI for investors, but soon enough the value of profits decrease and more price hikes creating more inflation. And so on... It's like automakers didn't learn from 2008.
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  78. A "golf cart" with a hundred miles of range should be appreciated if it wasn't pretentiously overpriced and a compliance car. Mazda could have easily brought their ill fated EV in 2015 and that would be considered competitive-enough. Mazda could've not wasted its time trolling against EVs that nobody buys them and stuck to the R&D of a rotary range extender a decade in advance.
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  79.  @KirkKreifels  im only lucky that here in Ireland there's second hand JDM imports of Note ePowers. Sleeper hot hatches and still unknown. Just need to wait ... 3-6 more years for my budget EPower is brand new to the EU (but 7 years old in Japan). The smallest new car they fit it with is the Juke, not the Micra, so it's already a let down.
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  80. Artificial scarcity
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  81. A hybrid, plugin hybrid and EV pick up would b excellent. It would be dumb to limit choice
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  82. If only the Prius C/Aqua wasn't axed. Short sightedness on Toyota's part.
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  83. Rotary electric generator? 🤞🤞
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  84. My next vehicle, if I need one, is going to be a second hand hybrid or EV. But second hand proces have all greedily inflated by €2000. I already spent 8 years and over 100k miles on my second hand Prius knowingly that it'll give me less headaches than a petrol or especially a diesel car. And that has mostly been true. Mechanically reliable, efficient, and does practically anything within its load carrying limit. If only minor electrical faults like resistors buried deep in the car weren't a problem, or if dealerships weren't complete scam artists.
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  85. Sickly signs of an economy
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  86. Group think says more profit to keep executive jobs and bonuses. Group think means sitting on their hands for over a decade and making crossovers. Mazda and Toyota are realising what opportunity and time they squandered
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  87. Yes please god yes.
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  88. Good news. They're both "standard" engines. There's no reason to prefer the "standard" beyond feelings
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  89. Toyota had invested in hybrids for the long term to meet Californian CARB emissions rules and therefore are reluctant and bitter about the market's changes and consumer demand toward non combustion vehicles. Toyota squandered its 2010s period. Wasted time on hydrogen and being consistently anti EV at an executive and PR level - instead of making compelling plug in hybrids when they and the chance. The Prius Prime could have been better and sooner and less bougie (profit margins). It's still a shame that Toyota only has two PRIME models. The Prius brand itself has been squandered and a lot of those quintessential "Prius drivers" became early adopters for every other PHEV and EV in the last decade. If it weren't for its smaller size, the Hyundai Ioniq EV, PHEV is practically better in every way. It doesn't mean that Tesla has to be the benchmark, when they compete with luxury and executive competition. Toyota should look at what Citroën is doing now with the Ami and Oli. Loads and loads of interest in the less is more philosophy that the Gen 2 Prius had; putting practicality, efficiency and durability first.
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  90. It reminds of of the teased concepts for the third generation before 2009. Hope that Toyota would not shy away from sharing what's already in the JDM market with the rest of the global markets. A stronger and larger capacity bi-polar NiMH cells from the Aqua for instance. A plug in battery that actually fits between the rear wheels, where all of its output can combine with all of the ICE's output like the RAV4 PRIME
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  91. Main thing for Nickel batteries is that they are more reliable in colder morning temperatures. Where as the tiny Lithium batteries Toyota uses that would cold soak over night would restrict almost all power output until it is warmed up again, which can take 20 minutes of high fuel consumption driving.
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  92. Signs of economic decay
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  93. In the US the CHR didn't come as a hybrid. Maybe that's why
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  94. Every other criticism is pretty valid. It was edgy above all else to compete with the Nissan Juke.
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  95.  @KirkKreifels  I'd argue that most people can't afford anything. New cars were restricted by chip shortages, hence far higher demand for second hand cars. A Prius C if it remained in the US would be seeing a boom amid reactionary behaviour to rising fuel prices.
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  96.  @ekgcanadianenthusiast9961  Now that's just sad - and I know it's market speculation demanding that C&SUVs are what folks want. Especially when the Corolla cross, RAV4 and Yaris Cross exist. But understand how the demographic of new car buyers were in their 20s - 30s in the 1980s - 1990s, but they're still the dominant car buyer , ie Boomers. Young people (under 45s) have a much slimmer economic wealth and portion of the national GDP, they can't afford new cars. There's going to be a market collapse soon enough from the inflexibility to cope with dramatic demographic change alone, and that's nothing compared to any of the myriad of international risk multipliers brought by climate change
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  97. ​ @TravelingwithRafyandValdo  where were you since the mid2000s?!
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  98. My 15 year old Gen 2 is still able to net me 66 mpg (Imperial), which is 56mpg US, that is with an occasional leaky tire and warm to mild weather all season. Wish I could plug it in or find an attainable li-ion upgrade, only a few folks on priuschat provide that.
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  99. Toyota is repeating the same path and mistakes as the Big Auto Three's 2008 crash
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  100. They are the exact same hybrid, a series/parallel hybrid with a planetary gear set. It's that the only Stellantis PHEV or series/parallel hybrid that exists is the Pacifica minivan. Large, heavy, underrated and only one of its kind.
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  101. I used to be cheering for Toyota. But trust me, and I know it's funny given my username, but let go being a sycophant fanboy for a brand. If Toyota had its way, with no emissions or mpg regulations, they wouldn't have built the Prius in the first place. That's capitalism
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  102. You might as well tel us that Toyota and Mazda has cryptocoin too. Too much faith as hype has been asked for by Toyota and Mazda. 3 solid state battery announcements in 5 years with nothing real to show? They bought themselves enough time
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  103. Some people thought hybrids would be the sweetspot 15 years ago...
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  104. You don't even want a plugin? Smh
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  105. ​ @SunnynPhilly Transport Evolved just done a video about that
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  106. There's plenty examples of JDM cars that would do well globally. The norms and expectations are totally different, more accommodating really.
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  107. 🥱🥱🥱 Would be more interested in a light duty hybrid pickup. Something Toyota could have and should have made a decade before the Ford Maverick.
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  108. Toyota was already "safe" when it came to market regulations on emissions (which Tesla was exempt from). They had invested in hybrids for the long term and therefore are reluctant and bitter about the market's changes and consumer demand toward non combustion vehicles. Toyota squandered its 2010s period. Wasted time on hydrogen and being consistently anti EV at an executive and PR level - instead of making compelling plug in hybrids when they and the chance. The Prius Prime could have been better and sooner and less bougie (profit margins). It's still a shame that Toyota only has two PRIME models.
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  109. Nonsense. Well, Toyota doesn't want to make plug-ins, that's why they are in deep trouble, they wasted 10 years. Did you only start an interest in the series-parallel hybrids a year ago? Better batteries improve the entire driving experience. Over 15 years of die-hard DIYers making plugin kits and preventative maintenance kits have shown that electrification improves hybrids.
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  110. Not all hybrids are created equal
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  111. Is it not uncomfortably hot there? 🔥👀
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  112. Good luck working and sleeping with that heat dome and forest fires, pal.
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  113. ​​​ @grahamstefaan  Oil incentives much? Can't you see what is happening today when markets own you and your government?
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  114. It is far too late tho
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  115. Building bad EVs because they dragged their heels and were too late for meaningful R&D If you think Mazda and Toyota are confident in defining whatever prototypes they had, fine. But at some point if they can't deliver there'll be hell to pay
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  116. And lets be real, Japanese automakers have almost entirely abandoned affordability and compact-subcompact cars, combustion engines especially because that's where the profits are. Look at their Mazda2/Yaris platform. They don't sell it in the US, and its too expensive in Europe without a lease.
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  117. Don't we all? However, Toyota didn't want to make any plugin hybrids until compliance regulations and EV competition dried up Prius sales fyi, Toyota didn't want to listen to the perfectly capable Prius owners making DIY plugin conversion kits since 2006
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  118.  @snowman1221  both are bad
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  119. I wonder why Toyota executives haven't taken their fingers out of their hole and made a Prius pickup a decade ago?
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  120. It's not released yet in much of Europe yet. Prius Prime is being marked at €48,000 here. That's an abject failure. That's antithetical to what made the iconic Prius a success. Make a CT200h Prime, fine, but Toyota is leaving a vacuum in the entry oevel market and it's the Chinese EVs thst will have the spoils.
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  121. If you can find a Mitsubishi iMiEV and a crashed Outlander PHEV battery pack. Go for it
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  122. Nice sleek design, so far so good If they deleted that extra rear window, I'm beginning to worry that Toyota went down the route of following blind into marketability. Something that many disinterested/spoiled car reviewers complained about. They tried with the 4th gen sacrificing driver visibility by deleting the c-d pillar window, making it look "sporty". It didn't attract any more customers beyond it being the most efficient on gas.
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  123. 🙄 Mazda had the Mazda 2 rotary REx prototype in 2013. Don't discredit EVs (or the i3), Mazda shot itself in the foot. Same with the Honda e and Toyota bz-whatever
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  124. Kei cars never went away... It's just that before the Sankura there only was the i-MiEV...
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  125. Or a small hybrids, PHEV or EV truck
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  126. Maybe Lexus is feeling nervous from the likes of the DS3 Crossback in Europe and the DS brand China. It's of the Stellantis group so it can go much more global.
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  127. ​ @anydaynow01 we'd all sincerely wish that. But let's be real, in 5 years there has 3 announcements of solid state batteries and they deadlines keep failing. You have to ask yourselves wouldn't any investor not be worried of fraud or anything?
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  128. ... sure... Mazda2 rotary REx from 2013. Would you not like to have seen that made?
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  129. It looks so forgettable. But i wont doubt it'll be a strong sales competitor in a market where there's more demand for EVs than there are a variety of EVs and supply
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  130.  @jmhatch88  with their Wankel range extender it would be a good choice of theirs. But Mazda is too focused on being upmarket to commit to building more Mazda2s, 121s, Demios, etc. Their production numbers does imply that
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  131. If the current Prius Prime can get +80hp on EV alone, there's no excuse for it to be given the full beans. All in the inverters and executive will
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  132. This is news to me 😬😬
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  133. Blane the PR rationale that Prius drivers were a cross-shoppers with Lexus clientele
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  134. Let's not forget that Hyundai and Kia are practically leaving a vacuum behind in the entry level market that Chinese evs will fill up. Unless Tesla is working on a Model 1 & 2 ready for next Christmas 🙄
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  135. I'd rather the Nissan CUBE electrified if Nissan were able to rub their two brain cells and bank account together
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  136. You don't find it odd that Toyota didn't further their hybrid approach 10 to 15 years ago? Mind you, especially in Europe, they were more than happy advertising selling diesel and petrol cars over their hybrid lineup simply because of profitability. It's too late to prioritise hybrids for another 10-15 years unless they are competently designed PHEVs.
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  137.  @KirkKreifels  but the US has neither hatchback or wagon Corrola hybrid
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  138.  @KirkKreifels  have to disagree with you there, man. Alex Autos did a video of stress testing a RAV4 hybrid to its limits up towing up a mountain Many ballsy Prius owners would beg to differ having experimented in towing , too few parts in a HSD that gan go wrong. Cooling is the main issue for towing, which contradicts the engineering for efficienc.
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  139. 11:30 Not true, the recycling is there It's waiting for market forces to appear when there's enough batteries falling out of use and into recyclers. Waiting for enough crashed LEAFs or enough forgotten mobile phones to be recycled All recycling should be planned as a climate crisis measure, not a business.
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  140. An Aqua or Yaris hybrid drivetrain with a plug in? Yes please, wouldn't Toyota be stupid not to? Hell, an affordable, light, efficient, quick charging 100+ mile EV would be best. Just like the old Hyundai Ioniq which seem to be forgotten
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  141. ​@@Brian_Eugene_Leeenough to make up for lost projected profits
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  142. But the rest of the world, can they afford or desire an upmarket Mazda? They're not big outside of Europe, NA, Australia and Japan. We have to be realistic at what happens when a brand closes off itself to an upmarket audience but then risks itself to be squeezed out of the western markets it designed itself for because of delaying R&D things will come to a pinch
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  143. ​​ @snoopy178 azda will get stuck. I see Mitsubishi being more able to survive more than Mazda by the end of the decade which is wild.
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  144. Try again
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  145. If I had any money for a new car, or decent used, it must have a plug no exception. Can't imagine giving a second's attention to the Corolla Cross 🤢🥴
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  146. My username is named after Toyota's first hybrid, and I'm only let down to see this kind of anti-EV sycophancy
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  147. This
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  148. The MX30 was a massive disappointment. But do you know that they had the Mazda2 rotary REx in 2013? They had the concept and the working prototype but they did squander it. I'm pretty sure that would've been decent sales success, for compliance regulations at least
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  149. ​ @crow_2k11beatsbydre8 Daihatsu?
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  150. They're intentionally blocking off all Chinese exports and choke them out with oversupply
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  151. Wait times wouldn't be as bad if Toyota bothered to sell hybrids in the middle of the states years prior
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  152. That too
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  153. Is that an identity? How about the fact that the don't give the option? Doesn't mean they can't offer a manual MX5
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  154. "THATS THE AMERICAN WAAAAY..." 🎶🦅💥
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  155. EV Honda Fit, City, EV Honda CRZ/Insight when?
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  156. It would be great to tale yhe Ford Maverick seriously. PHEV truck and super practical
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  157. Yes
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  158. ​ @bidenwearsdiapers4026 you're mistaken. The Crosstrek hybrid is unique that it has Toyotas hybrid eCVT but mechanically connected to a split box.
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  159. You don't think they held back on PHEVs for a decade?
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  160. We'd all wish that but they'd fight tooth and nail before they spend more R&D on plugins. And let's be honest, if it wasn't for emissions regulations, Toyota would be more than happy to have never built the Prius.
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  161. Why not with +50hp hybrid battery?
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  162. The thing is, they could be on the streets today if executives stuck their fingers out of their holes. Do you remember Mazda had a working Mazda2 rotary REx in 2011-13? Doesn't it make you second guess the decisions made at the executive level? Cause they basically had a range extended city car at the same time as the BMW i3 but with a rotary and not a hopeless motorcycle engine. Their business model was to remain unprepared for electrification hedging that Plugins won't grow in demand.
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  163. It is just another premium crossover, guys. The only thing that's newsworthy is that's it's a new Acura
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  164. Decent PHEV truck from Toyota/Lexus when?
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  165. 10 years ago Mazda had a Mazda2 rotary REx . They killed it, forgot about it, spent years saying no one wanted plugins, and it's a disgrace.
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  166. 6:24 Sorry man, but the Prius was neither about the big centre screen or being mature /professional. That was one of the drawbacks from Gen 2 to Gen 3; less interior practicality, more material intensive construction, higher price and premiums. Not what made the Gen 2 such a hit. Tarting up a Prius into being a $30,000 vehicle is only going to worsen its chances in a market full of similarly prices and cheaper EVs - just like what held back the Gen 4
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  167. ​ @alexnutcasio936  that's why they all buy tenders from CATL, or A123 back in the day.
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  168. More variety of vehicle, all plug in.
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  169. Just unglug that local billboard nobody likes
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  170. The market softens for nobody, except for the profits and dividends of its owners.
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  171. Surprising that Mazda and Toyota haven't developed a rotary engine mated with a hybrid drivetrain. It seems well suited for it. Or the fact that Mazda had its Mazda2 rotary range extender and never acted on it as strongly as their PR dismissing EVs back in the day
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  172. The lack of affordable cars now is going to bite back at western markets (US, EU). The arms race of going upmarket and profitability will create fertile ground for an economic crisis when nobody would want crossovers and upmarket cars. Chinese brands with electric offerings will take advantage.
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  173. Not really. There's been more variety of hybrids in other markets. And far too few PHEVs too late If Toyota had the chance, if emissions regulations decades ago weren't in place, Toyita would rather sell no hybrids at all
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  174. I want to love it. But why not 10, 15 years ago? Why not globalise JDM, Kei cars, small utilities and light trucks? Chicken tax be damned
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  175. This definitely. Hyundai already had the Ioniq which went +130 miles on a 28kWh pack. Toyota could easily do that, but not with the space as limited as an Insight.
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  176. A decent PHEV like the current Prius Prime is too little too late. That car should've been on the market in 2015
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  177. Has everyone just forgotten the Chrysler Pacifica PHEV??
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  178. It gotta have a competent Hybrid option. Mild hybrids would've been doable back in the 80s if taken seriously. Fiat has a 12v hybrid
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  179. There are technologies right now that do suit our needs today, cheap lithium iron cells, sodium cells, and they're mostly in China. So go figure why there's new waves in both anti-EV and anti-Chinese yellow peril rhetoric
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  180. Anyone realise how the Prius Prime starting price in the EU costs a hair above €45,000?
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  181. It's similar to the 2nd gen Chevy Volt, there about? They were $33,000 in 2017, so that's $40,000 in 2022/23
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  182. As a hybrid owner, I see it as a disadvantage that not having to charge is sold as some perk I would much rather have a plugin battery. Prius owners since 2006 DIYed with this knowing that more electrification is a benefit.
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  183. You Americans are really missing out on the Estate hybrid Corollas in Europe. And our Corollas are just basically rebadged Aurises. They also come with larger 2.0l hybrids if I'm not mistaken.
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  184. Man how did I miss this video before?.. I definitely agree with you here man; have a base and "sport" Prius Prime. The former being an affordable entry to plug in life. Whereas if using RAV4 Prime "tech", ie beefing up the Gen 2 to accept all of the battery power plug engine generating power, that should be over 189 bhp on just hardware alone using the same battery pack. So yeah, that and a truly sub-$25,000 Prime hatch that can truly differentiate from the Corolla. I'm hearing rumours now that a 5th gen is on the way and coming as a "Coupé" 🙄 On top of that, Toyota is trying to make a hydrogen fueled variety, think Hydrogen combustion. Also, I've seen advertisements from Toyota Ireland that name dropped solid state batteries. Maybe they aren't bluffing? I am really concerned that Toyota will squander the Prius and force its discontinuation.
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  185. It's getting too upmarket. The 2nd and 3rd generation Micra should be the target.. But this new Micra is comparable to a VW golf or Peugeot 306 back in the 2000s.
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  186. Do you know what kicks ass? The Toyota Sienta Basically an Aqua/PriusC MPV. But less practical and efficient crossovers are more profitable 🤷🤦
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  187. ​ @bjsimon802  rubbish
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  188. ​ @jaylenbrownfan2112  ... It's the workers who make money for Ford, Toyota and Tesla. Their pay is subtracted from the value they create so ensure profit for the company/shareholders. This is 101 stuff
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  189. Shame you don't live where the Citroën CX5 and C5 Aircross hybrids are sold
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  190. You probably drove to Woodstock in a Type 2!
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  191. Stop that's just fan boy shite. I should know. Toyota couldn't care less about hybrids when they still rather sell diesels and Petrols only since the 2000s. Toyota's hybrids are perfect for plugin battery capacity and the squandered every year since.
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  192. If Toyota boasts so much about how their hybrids are better than EVs, they're really showing how well they are it ignoring the obvious needs and demand for a no nonsense hybrid pickup/Ute. But they think there's money for trophy pieces for middle aged minded men?
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  193. Basically the Ford Maverick
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  194. Crossovers* are garbage
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  195. ​ @mitch20003 you're alright son?
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  196.  @tomchan2559  or maybe it's the fact that battery production is a cartel, and automates have to pay a premium to acquire a tender/supply. Remember, most automotive brands don't like EVs, their executives primarily.
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  197. Plug-in? There's no reason for the Chrysler Pacifica to be the only MPV PHEV after all these years.
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  198. A lot of fool hardiness on not just the fans but on Mazda's part too. It's like a culture feeding in on itself. Since 2011 when they had a very promising Mazda2 rotary REx PHEV, so too did AUDIs A2 concept. And both (executives of) Mazda and Audi at the time were actvely dismissive and negative against EVs, saying there's no demand or market for them, charging, batteries, profits etc. Post dieselgate, Audi has definitely changed its tune. Mazda im sorry to say should not be digging its heels, the Mazda2 rotary PHEV was the right car at the right time and they squandered it. I rather Mazda be the fun car for all (and utility), but clearly they're only going to go premium, sell less cars, etc. How well does Mazda sell outside of western markets phasing out combustion? It doesn't look good for them. The date for combistion bans will come. Mazda will developing markets to sell combustion engines in, but they have to be affordable, jdm kei car affordable. So they're burning bridges for themselves.
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  199. This awfully seems like Toyota is soothing investors' fears
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  200. I like your comment, it shows how out of kilter many automakers are. There's the Kona and Nero, but no prius-shaped Ioniq because it wasn't a crosser despite being more affordable and efficient. Crossovers demand a higher premium just because - therefore the Ioniq was not as profitable despite being a real Goldilocks EV. And hybrids, I like them but they were stagnant for over 10 years. The likes of Toyota were happy making profits from non hybrids more as much as they can. That's the truth. Ask yourself why after over a decade of Priuses and Ford Escape of the 2000s have Toyota not made a hybrid pickup, but Ford recently made the hybrid Maverick (and badly underestimated its demand)? They're squandering it
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  201. That's the gist of rapidly developing technologies. Automakers' business model is to develop long standing components. EV technology is advancing like early mobile phones and they can't settle on something that will be outpaced soon afterward
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  202. You're thinking of luxury crossovers, not EVs
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  203. Friendly reminder, back in 2012 Mazda had a working rotary range extended prototype Mazda 2. And they buried it for no good reason.
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  204. Honestly that's a regular hybrid battery that's way too out of balanced and worn out
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  205. It'll be a first. I do wonder if at all how Toyota can make a diesel an Atkinson cycle. For anyone interested in how a Toyota hybrid (Prius) works, one of the myriad ways it operates is by using excess torque from the engine as much as possible, either by capturing it by charging or by using that excess spin/torque to travel down the road. In this case, the engine can drive the car at high speed, the big electric motor can idle-regen and create enough power to spin in reverse the second, motor generator which interacts with the planetary gear drive - creating a high gear ratio upon the engine. Aka "super highway mode"
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  206. Big fan of Priuses before they were cool When having prius as a username got you death threats Sorry Forgot mid editing: This is a cool approach. But not only does it have to look as cutting edge as the rest for 2023-2030, designers should get the reasons why the Gen 2 Prius was popular. It was a great all rounder - minus the ground clearance the Gen 2, as practical of a design as possible - and something that is actually clever durable, easy to repair and replace. Inside and out
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  207. KIA RAY EV when?
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  208. What genius has decided that now is the time to give interrst to a hybrid (or prius) small pick up truck after waiting for Ford to make one over a decade after its Explorer? This is a farce. If Toyota listened to their customer base instead of pandering on the Prius nane sake, there would've been a hybrid pickup along side the Prius C, V and PiP by the mid 2010s
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  209. Nissan would be stupid to give up on the CUBE
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  210. I'm excited to a decent and affordable return to the Prius C/Aqua, Prius V.
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  211. ​@Brian_Eugene_LeeToyota's hybrids go very well with extra battery capacity. It's that Toyota didn't want to because they can't make their own, they got burned by the Cobasys/Chevron NiMH patent embargo scandal, remember?
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  212. They've been too slow on a lot of things. They done well so far on being the alternative choice of BMW or Audi, o Infinity with the MX5 halo car, but that has only taken them so far.
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  213. Any kahm back (Prius shape) electric cars from Hyundai? 🤞🤞 It does make for the best practicality and efficiency combo like the initial Ioniq.
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  214. All true. However Toyota's hybrids are the best with a plug in battery. Many other plug in hybrids we've seen in the last +5 years are thirsty on fuel or electricity and have made the reputation that PHEVs are not green. That's Toyota's main saving grace. If only they (Toyota's executives and investors) didn't waste everybody's time. Those who work in the factories making their cars would have made a better decision than Toyota's executives
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  215. If Subaru could focus on rugged, practical and accessible it can't do wrong. Where Toyota have missed the opportunity with the 5th Gen Prius by going up market, I can see Subaru appealing to both Subaru and Prius tastes by making an economical, ergonomic go-anywhere AWD Hybrid. Kammback, hatchback, station wagon or pickup Have Toyota's and Subaru's executives not seen the online community of "overlanders" and "van lifers" full of lift kits and 1500W inverters on Priuses lately? It's already a generator on wheels.
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  216. I just wish Honda would admit the obvious about the Honda e. It's not small by a long shot.
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  217. Lol
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  218. Screaming sustainability
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  219. They waited too late for that.
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  220. Beats suffering of oversupply. There's lots of right answers, but the fact that Toyota closed plants in China is not one we'd hear here.
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  221. ​ @matthewhuszarik4173  And what portion of those sales hybrid and regular ICE? Globally
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  222. ​ @SunnynPhilly ... That something is something every manufacturer is failing to do unless they start building from China - which the VW ID Range is just begining Profits begets inflation, and inflation reduces the value of profits hence price increases/inflation
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  223. ​ @AndrewHrab it will break the economy eventually
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  224. ​ @PoliticalMatter Not poor planning and loss of competitive edge?
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  225. Looks awesome. When it comes to foldups I won't settle for less than 20" wheels and at least one rack. Too many ebikes in too many markets keep going down the stupid inflated snow/sand tyres route.
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  226. I can see this being an upscale style if the Aygo X The Aygo X unfortunately is a car that makes me cry in anguish. Kill small city cars, replace them with a car slapped on eith tall alloys, low profile tires, less practicality and a few extra €€€ because it's a crossover.
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  227. Tell that to Nikki Gordon Bloomfield
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  228. What? How? There's only the Chrysler Pacifica minivan PHEV. There's no other PHEVs or hybrids from Stellantis that's series/parallel. All their other hybrids are through-the-road hybrids that PSA engineered years prior, those hybrids are seen in Jeeps etc
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  229.  @pasiutrial  but that's beside the point. Toyota's hybrids perform excellently with plug in batteries. Hybrids alone were sufficient in meeting emissions regulations since the 2000s, hence the lack of evolution toward electrification Prius owners (and EV advocates) have modded their cars with DIY batteries back since 2006 Toyota just acted on its market from a distance and has undermined itself, especially the Prius brand.
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  230. Hubris
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  231. H U B R I S 🤬🤢😒
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  232. Mazda didn't put any effort in it. It's almost as if it wants to signal that EVs are not conducive for their business model.
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  233. Remember the C-Pod? What reason was there for Toyota to squander that micro EV?
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  234.  @tinuthomas531  all true. However, still leaves the issue that Toyota doesn't seriously see the value more variety of hybrid and plug ins in their range. Especially none for pickups. There's the Tundra, but a completely different animal, and frankly compromised hybrid
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  235.  @psewgobind  can you fill up at home when you're a sleep? Grow your own gas?
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  236.  @joeb4294  that's America for ya
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  237. Why can't Mazda realise that their rotaries can fit perfectly well with Toyota's hybrid drivetrains?
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  238. No EV , No hybrid, No sweet Kei car for EU and US? 🙄🙄🙄🤡
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  239. Is this the same as Toyota's illusive solid state ?
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  240. Perhaps why ask Stellantis isn't rebadging any of their Peugeot/Citroën/Fiat vans and MPVs for the US market.
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  241. It hasn't escaped my notice that you've completely steered away from any EV news that isnt "against" them in retrospect because that's what the algorithm-feedback loop advised. Hate to break it to you as I did like watching your stuff for years, but that's not gonna be sustainable making content on luxury western japanese malaise nonstop
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  242. Quelle surprise I wonder what this means for the EU market. Light commercial vehicles have less emissions regulations to an extent - and zero effort has been made in making hybrid vans which I personally think is a damning from Toyota. D-4D diesels especially, they're the unreliable exception, but they never needed to be within the market regulations and competition put upon it.
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  243. PS @ 1:00 That's literally the job - employer relationship that exists in capitalism, working as it should. 🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️
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  244. They're all still going to be upmarket more than before. That'll leave a vulnerable blindspot
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  245. Well, not only too little too late, California was supposed to have 5% ZEV sales in 2005, but yknow, they killed the EV1, large capacity NiMH and sued CARB
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  246. That would be good, and they had the chance but dismiss Plugins back then. 10 years ago Mazda had a working Mazda2 rotary REx and squandered it. Mazda made no attempt to R&D more until the awful MX-30. Do we see the problem here?
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  247. US market didn't even have the hybrid CHR, which was the best seller in Europe. Imagine how needless that is
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  248. That's why paid talking heads hate it
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  249. ​ @Filipe1020 you clearly don't know what you're talking about. The very issue of pollution (not just CO2) and the decades of regulations and engineering adaptations because otherwise it just let the executives and investors profit more from the cost of your asthma, heart and lung disease.
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  250. ​ @bgaoest2995 and where are they now? Advertising non hybrids wherever they can.
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  251. EVs always had character, but when they're all competing in the same mid-luxury segment, then the criticisms laid against them become hard to refute.
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  252. Power was not the problem, it crucially had torque to get out of its own way. That just depended on the driver... The problem of the 4th generation was its cynical creation. It's not as good as the 2nd gen Prius at being a Prius: ergonomic and pragmatic. How versatile the car is, on top of its efficiency and reliability was its secret sauce. A plugin is the holy grail, but the 4th gen Prius' Prime was disadvantaged by the TNGA's rear double wishbone suspension which forced the large plugin battery on stilts impacting cargo space. Imo, the worst thing about the Gen 4 (prime) was when they offered it with only 4 seats, for some executive delusion that Prius prime buyers wanted to be more exclusive. That's the headliner folks. Power was not a problem, let's be real it's not how little power you have it's what you do with it. But what do I know I live in Europe, 106-121hp is average, plenty even. Asking for ever faster and heavier cars make roads more dangerous. It's a given. But a fast Prius has been a nice party trick since the 5th's release.
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  253. They're clearly not making enough beyond emissions regulations
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  254. Keep them out? What's the matter with ye? Why act like they're a detriment if just as an option? There's plenty to be had with a 220+ hp hybrid in a light weight sports car
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  255. Toyota should have been competent enough to have made a hybrid/Prius pickup truck a decade ago. But they're not.
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  256. Let's take the time to notice how Nissan is asleep at the wheel with electrification. No active cooling LEAF for example. The Note ePower has been on sale since 2016 JDM, in Europe the smallest ePower is only the Juke 5 years later... US market has even less options. Nissan should just have faith in globalising their JDM products because the vacuum for entry level cars are so strong at the moment that only Chinese EVs are primed to take over.
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  257. Inflation is caused by Profit, Speculation and Competition with other price jackers. That's the kicker.
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  258.  @TheSpaniardFromCalifornia  Remember Trump? Now they're back, in Pog form.
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  259. Representatives of Shareholders say it doesn't make healthy enough profits 🤡
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  260. ​ @fortheloveofnoise I hope that doesn't mean greedy, mock SUV design and pricing
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  261. ​​​​ @Tyrewhisperer  You may need to look the other way around from solid state. Iron phosphate batteries and Sodium ion batteries seem to be the current game changer which will have consequences, solid state has been as over hyped as hydrogen (or an ID BUZZ or Honda e). Toyota did good in making its bipolar NiMH batteries only for the PriusC/Aqua, but that's it and its being gatekeeped in the JDM for years.
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  262. ​ @martink7945 expertise in manufacturing EV disinformation and culture wars
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  263. Not quick enough for Prius owners to be making their own DIY plugins and trucks a decade earlier
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  264. They didn't even try using Toyota's series/parallel hybrids yet. Mazda had a working Mazda2 rotary REx concept 10 years ago and they squandered it.
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  265. Uh not quite
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  266.  @tylertullis6536  🎯 It's a cynical crossover and underwhelming EV
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  267.  @mylesgray3470  the 4th gen was like a cynical creation by PR executives what they thought Prius drivers wanted. The Prime was disadvantaged by the TNGA's rear wishbone suspension. If it was just a twist beam (like how Hyndai diversified between EV and PHEV), the Prime would be a bigger success than it has been. That also goes for the 4 seats it was first offered with, because of some executive decision that the Prime was meant to be for exclusive buyers...
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  268. it better come with wankel manual and a wankel hybrid.
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  269. True. One thing Volt drivers wished for was stronger level 2 charging. 6.6kW would allow 2x more ev driving for any given charge mid-day. Faster charging but retaining a useable smaller batteries makes better sense. We have to value maximising the use of limited materials. Even if I rather there be no ICE to lug around and fuel burned! Just a shame there were not enough built in the last 5-7 years and there's not enough available second hand for us today.
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  270.  @olso1901  definitely not the case in Europe. They (dealerships) still poorly reflect and sell the plugin hybrid as an exclusive item. Harming adoption.
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  271. That could've been done 35 years ago. But...
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  272. Why fetishize manuals? Above in the moment driving pleasure, for rotary engines they're counter intuitive. The load from the road is going right through to the rotary's tips which we all know are phenomenally reliable. There's so much more than can compliment rotaries. Not just as range extenders or series hybrids, but imagine how it'll perform in Toyota's series/parallel hybrids? Mazda's just acting out as a culture war brand for clout and it's embarrassing to see.
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  273. A lot heavier than I was expecting. Still, if the real world performance shows good fuel efficiency and good distance/kWh and retaining everyday EV driving, this may actually be better than the full BEV. Annoyingly, the MX30 is still a big, heavy, inefficient car. The BEV would benefit if its 30kWh was in a more appropriate vehicle (not the most profitable/crossover)
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  274. Growth comes at a cost
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  275. Mercedes
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  276. Why does Toyota wait until Ford's Maverick hybrid (over a decade after the Escape and Prius) to convince itself that there was always a market for small, durable and efficient pick ups? It's crumbs at this stage. A Prius Pickup and PRIME should have been made back in 2013 when a Prius C, V and a compliance plugin was the best they mustered.
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  277. Just like that? Mazda isn't being different by not offering EVs. They're selling posh sedans and SUVs like everyone else... You know that right? They're betting on short term and high profitability until they can't sell combustion no more. You know they'll be tied closer and closer to Toyota's hip, right? Soon to be just a badge.
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  278. ​ @Gregory-Masovutch they can keep the manual MX5. but the problem with all cars is that there was always been a deliberate limitations of EVs and even hybrids. I'm surprised Mazda hasn't re engineered a Toyota hybrid system into a FR set up like what Subaru did with the crosstrek. Imagine a single or duo-rotary engine in a series/parallel hybrid. It'll be a first of its kind They're not only efficient, they have strong torque and power delivery. That has never been in a car lighter than a PriusC/Aqua before.
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  279. Full size trucks create inflation
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  280. ​ @User.Joshua  what was your EV by chance? Fair enough if you only had one vehicle, but one common solution is to keep a beater (that you actually only drive rarely).
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  281. Haha yeah I can take the piss take, but I feel bereft for the car (for Mitsubishi), a more beefier, 36kWh rear drive egg would be a missed opportunity for the brand maker. But really honestly, the iMiEV's guts were left untouched since its 2011/12, with only comfort features coming and going. By 2014 there was a real speculation that the i-MiEV would get a refresh, but nah. Battery supply was diverted mostly to the Outlander PHEV, and the iMiEV just went under the radar after 2015. It was a 2005 chassis on a steel ladder frame after all. But with the likes of the expected, affordable 22kWh 44 - 76hp Chinese-originated Renault KWIDS coming to Europe as electric Dacias - one could really wonder when Mitsubishi has lost itself by not giving the little pioneer another glance.
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  282. The bZ4X is a crappy designed EV, second to the Mazda MX30. Worse than the meh VW ID4 That's the failure of those respective executives who squandered the 2010s pumping out overloaded crossovers and disinformation for you to eat up for the short term profit. Don't forget, China is the world's largest automotive market and Toyota is failing spectacularly in it.
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  283.  @Unchainedmaple888  you do know that it's every employer in the world that decides prices reacting to market flux right?
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  284.  @Unchainedmaple888  and it's OPEC politics that stages gas prices. And that domestic fuel is also sold at global prices when Brandon could and should nationalise such things to protect you and stuff from the side effects from market pot stirring and eventual social disasters
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  285. Lithium batteries in hybrids (which are much smaller) do tend to suffer from cold and take much longer to warm. Nickel metal hydride batteries traditionally used in hybrids perform better because they're more temp tolerant and less efficient which helps build up heat in the cold. NiMH batteries could take 15 minutes of driving or more to warm up. Small lithium ions in hybrids take longer, often more than the entire commute.
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  286. Ah yes, but the Ariya is a crossover, and more profitable. It'll be Nissan's only EV to choose from soon.
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  287. You don't see the problem of how drilling and burning fossil fuels are still being pushed?
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  288. Pride comes before...
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  289. Don't forget the executive's pay
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  290. Is this not just a feature of the system/industry?
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  291. Kirk, you dont think that there's a repucussion in record sales of combustion engines ? Have you not noticed the horrific weather, globally?
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  292. ​ @doriangray2347 don't be showing off your power level son
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  293. Mazda seems ok with aiming for an upper market brand. Their recent MX30 was not so much as a tip toe in the EV pool, but more of a floater. They failed to invest and research properly in EVs after executives spent years stirring up anti EV culture war FUD. Toyota and Honda too, they're doing well with hydrogen.
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  294. ​ @limitedreach4446 and how are they going to get mandates calm? Put their money into politics? As if they haven't already
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  295. I know right...
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