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

  1. Engineers can't do what the executives don't want them to...
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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. Afaik you can claim the EV incentive on the lease
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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. Feels too little too late
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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. That has been the advice since the 2013 Nissan LEAF
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  12. They're equally bad. One is a tasteless meme, the other was phoned in
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  13.  @CACressida  dude...
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  14. 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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  15. ​ @alexnutcasio936 it's a testament of Toyota's leadership
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  16. Do people still buy +2 tonne pretentious brand and status statements whilst driving over the limit in a school zone? 💀💀
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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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  21. 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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  22. 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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  23. It can if it were a multi speed final output after the HSD system
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  24. 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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  25. Even better if it plugged in
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  26. 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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  27. 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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  28. 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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  29.  @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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  30. Artificial scarcity
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  31. A hybrid, plugin hybrid and EV pick up would b excellent. It would be dumb to limit choice
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  32. If only the Prius C/Aqua wasn't axed. Short sightedness on Toyota's part.
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  33. Rotary electric generator? 🤞🤞
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  34. 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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  35. Sickly signs of an economy
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  36. 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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  37. Yes please god yes.
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  38. Good news. They're both "standard" engines. There's no reason to prefer the "standard" beyond feelings
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  39. 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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  40. 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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  41. 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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  42. Signs of economic decay
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  43. In the US the CHR didn't come as a hybrid. Maybe that's why
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  44. Every other criticism is pretty valid. It was edgy above all else to compete with the Nissan Juke.
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  45.  @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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  46.  @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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  47. ​ @TravelingwithRafyandValdo  where were you since the mid2000s?!
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  48. 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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  49. Toyota is repeating the same path and mistakes as the Big Auto Three's 2008 crash
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  50. 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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