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

  1. 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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  2. You're thinking of luxury crossovers, not EVs
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  3. 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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  4. Honestly that's a regular hybrid battery that's way too out of balanced and worn out
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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. KIA RAY EV when?
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  8. 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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  9. Nissan would be stupid to give up on the CUBE
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  10. I'm excited to a decent and affordable return to the Prius C/Aqua, Prius V.
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  11. ​@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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. I just wish Honda would admit the obvious about the Honda e. It's not small by a long shot.
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  17. Lol
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  18. Screaming sustainability
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  19. They waited too late for that.
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  20. 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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  21. ​ @matthewhuszarik4173  And what portion of those sales hybrid and regular ICE? Globally
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  22. ​ @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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  23. ​ @AndrewHrab it will break the economy eventually
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  24. ​ @PoliticalMatter Not poor planning and loss of competitive edge?
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  25. 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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  26. 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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  27. Tell that to Nikki Gordon Bloomfield
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  28. 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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  29.  @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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  30. Hubris
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  31. H U B R I S 🤬🤢😒
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  32. 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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  33. Remember the C-Pod? What reason was there for Toyota to squander that micro EV?
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  34.  @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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  35.  @psewgobind  can you fill up at home when you're a sleep? Grow your own gas?
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  36.  @joeb4294  that's America for ya
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  37. Why can't Mazda realise that their rotaries can fit perfectly well with Toyota's hybrid drivetrains?
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  38. No EV , No hybrid, No sweet Kei car for EU and US? 🙄🙄🙄🤡
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  39. Is this the same as Toyota's illusive solid state ?
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  40. Perhaps why ask Stellantis isn't rebadging any of their Peugeot/Citroën/Fiat vans and MPVs for the US market.
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  41. 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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  42. 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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  43. PS @ 1:00 That's literally the job - employer relationship that exists in capitalism, working as it should. 🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️
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  44. They're all still going to be upmarket more than before. That'll leave a vulnerable blindspot
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  45. 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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  46. 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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  47. 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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  48. That's why paid talking heads hate it
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  49. ​ @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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  50. ​ @bgaoest2995 and where are they now? Advertising non hybrids wherever they can.
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