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

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. Some people thought hybrids would be the sweetspot 15 years ago...
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  4. You don't even want a plugin? Smh
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  5. ​ @SunnynPhilly Transport Evolved just done a video about that
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  6. 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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  7. 🥱🥱🥱 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. Not all hybrids are created equal
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  11. Is it not uncomfortably hot there? 🔥👀
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  12. Good luck working and sleeping with that heat dome and forest fires, pal.
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  13. ​​​ @grahamstefaan  Oil incentives much? Can't you see what is happening today when markets own you and your government?
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  14. It is far too late tho
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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18.  @snowman1221  both are bad
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  19. 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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  20. 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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  21. If you can find a Mitsubishi iMiEV and a crashed Outlander PHEV battery pack. Go for it
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  22. 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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  23. 🙄 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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  24. Kei cars never went away... It's just that before the Sankura there only was the i-MiEV...
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  25. Or a small hybrids, PHEV or EV truck
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  26. 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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  27. ​ @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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  28. ... sure... Mazda2 rotary REx from 2013. Would you not like to have seen that made?
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  29. 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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  30.  @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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  31. 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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  32. This is news to me 😬😬
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  33. Blane the PR rationale that Prius drivers were a cross-shoppers with Lexus clientele
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  34. 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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  35. 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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  36. 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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  37.  @KirkKreifels  but the US has neither hatchback or wagon Corrola hybrid
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  38.  @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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  39. 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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  40. 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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  41. ​@@Brian_Eugene_Leeenough to make up for lost projected profits
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  42. 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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  43. ​​ @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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  44. Try again
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  45. 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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  46. 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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  47. This
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  48. 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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  49. ​ @crow_2k11beatsbydre8 Daihatsu?
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  50. They're intentionally blocking off all Chinese exports and choke them out with oversupply
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