Comments by "Be Low Below" (@toyotaprius79) on "DW REV - Cars & Mobility" channel.

  1. Dieselgate and a dead end focus on Crossovers and SUVs for profit. Decades of poor innovation and contempt from greedy executives
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  2. Back in the 2000s the Chinese knew they couldn't beat the Germans or Yanks with combustion engines design, but they also had the foresight (and lack of political clown circuses) to see that their strengths and the future relied on electronic and battery engineering.
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  3. Executive greed too
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  4. Western automakers know the writing in the wall, cheap and practical electric run abouts are what people want, not KIAs that compete with BMWs. Chinese micro EVs like the Cherry qq, Lumin corn, Wuling Mini EV, Air EV and Bingo; they will wipe the floor with Western automakers. 9:17 The micro EVs in China are very lucrative for European buyers, especially when western automakers don't see any sense/profit in making city cars, so they tart them up into Crossover/SUVs and slap +3000€ on them. Toyota Aygo X is a perfect example. The killing of the VW Up, Citroen C1/Peugeot 108/Toyota Aygo are a few more. They see profit in executive Tesla Model 3/BMW 3 series vehicles, or larger, thirstier crossover versions that carry more profit with not much more costs to produce. That's one side of the story that most people find hard to accept about what really drives inflation, profits return to investors; unsustainable economic growth and compounding profit for the supply. Invertors rely on their money inflating. It gets a lot worse when it comes to human necessities like housing, like what has plagued Ireland In a time of crisis, the free market must be caged and the economy (and its products) planned for an organised society in said crisis.
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  5. VW and every other automaker should be made to not only keep these hard working cars on the road , but to overhaul them, and not solely economically responsible on the civilian's ownership. It's in everybody's general interest to make our roads cleaner, safer, better to live with but also preserving classic machines going productively. Old Beetles, old Citroëns, to Toyota cars in the 2000s that most people are relying on. To give them updates and upgrades that the original automakers engineer. That uncontrolled market arms race in the face of climate destruction Not every VW Golf has to be EV converted. There are some very cool companies like Transition One from France, a "climate company" that does make sustainable, light and affordable 100-140km EV conversions of second hand Fiat 500s and Renault Twingos. The way we throw cars away (which are also history) because of it's a free market if why everything is 🤬 up. We just have to stop that business mindset
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  6. In denial and running away from the bed that they've made. Empire in decline
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  7. Remember how everyone fooled themselves into thinking that EVs always catch fire and take too long to charge?😂
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  8. The only Toyota that Toyota doesn't want you to drive. It's their fault for being anti-EV and not providing any hybrid engine with their vans.
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  9. I would most definitely replace an Audi 🙄 with this Citroën
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  10. Expect politics to slap a 75% tarrif
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  11. Remember if the yank lawmakers think they can slap 100% tariffs on a 30 grand car costing consumers 60 grand - that's just allowing Ford, GM, Stellantis, Toyota, VW etc to build 50-60 grand cars that nobody can afford with zero incentive or competition to build sub-25,000 dollar EVs which China has a plethora of experience in building. Likewise if the EU (Germany and fascist Meloni) think they're helping the European automotive sector with 30% taroffs
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  12. ​ @DWREV did you neglect to mention the Ovonics NiMH battery patents that GM sold to Texaco (Tex later bought by Chevron) and Chevron waging a patents embargo against any automakers using high-capacity Ah NiMH batteries including suing Toyota $250 million in 2004/05. Plus all the involved actors from Chevron, Toyota, GM to the Bush administration suing the California Air Resource Board for the audacity of legislating 5% of new car sales being Zero Emission Vehicles...
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  13. Executives were simply contemptuous and greedy, that TDIs were superior market choice and that there was no need for innovation, despite political pressure as well as concepts and R&D of electrified prototypes going back each decade. Audi's etron concepts were infamously mocked for being green washing vaporware, despite a working Audi A1 range extended EV prototype, Audi only took electrification seriously several years after Tesla stole their lunch
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  14. Are the Germans deluded? The MINI now is a pig of a vehicle for an affluent buyer.
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  15. Don't forget to shout out for small, light electric 3 and 4 wheelers. Many have forgotten about the REVA G-Wiz and e20 , small, light and capable electric quadricycles - With Doors!
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  16. Low mileage for a Prius
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  17. Is VW having a hard PR week again?
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  18. The problem is waiting for free market forces to make recycling (of any material) attractive. Plus, waiting for batteries to complete their life cycle. Lots more can be achieved by a collective effort in cleaning out each and every desk, cabinet and night stand for old, forgotten mobile phones.
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  19. For anyone who thinks they're quick and smart to dismiss EVs for the "collapse of western industry/society" take a thorough look at what every new car regardless of fuel has grown into over the last 15-20 years. Ever bigger, ever expensive, ever more refined and "competitive" until every new car looks and competes in the same crossover-SUV design formula because they're more profitable. Dont be surprised about Chinese EVs being 10 years ahead or small affordable cars going extinct. And when you factor in how many of these new fuel guzzlers are financed and owned as company cars, dont be so surprised about the inflation everyone suffers with and stupidly blaming it on refugees.
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  20. All new cars are luxury "family" SUVs and Executive sedans, there's hardly any city cars anymore, did you forget about that?
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  21. This - but emulate the build to purpose philosophy with community/worker owned enterprises internationally.
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  22. The ridiculousness at this stage of fetishising executive cars at this time of ecological global collapse.
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  23. Would be cooler with a Prius
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  24. ♥️this!
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  25. Not all hybrids are built equally. Toyota's series/parallel, voltage booster power split device is the best combination to have a plug in battery. The only problem is, the Toyota executives don't want this because their early development of hybrids kept them clear from fleet emissions fines. Customers since the Prius have demanded for plug-ins from Toyota since 2006 for it offered a better car to drive and operate - it begs the question why they had to resort to DIY and warranty voids. Whereas the majority of competitors from Germany, France and Sweden have all ran head first into meagre adaptations of their many plug in hybrid SUVs that only perform well in European economy tests. They're not good hybrids, only "normal driving" traditional transmission hybrids - and therefore not terribly efficient with their fuel and electricity.
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  26. REVA G-Wiz was two decades a head of its time
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  27. They're busy burning forests for tar sands
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  28. It's definitely extortionately priced. Just like the VW ID BUZZ
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  29. It's still an excessive Crossover. Still waiting for their micro and city cars
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  30. Will James May approve?
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  31. An Alfa Romeo built on a Friday?
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  32. Japan's lead has been lost to China's EVs now
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  33. DS9, 508 or CX5 please
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  34. Exactly when the US hegemony collapses
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  35. Weird how BYD and other Chinese EVs automakers aren't introducing their EVs like in other central and south American countries?
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  36. You're thinking of Honda. Honda built engines. BYD built batteries from the beginning
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  37. yesyesyesyesyes!
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  38. How about force VW to not discontinue the 140 mile range e-UP!, electric Mii and Citigo?
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  39. 🎯🎯🎯 Let's just undo +70 years of western geopolitical petroleum dominance, the billions wasted on motorway sprawl and the decades of investment lost on social/state owned capital like tram and railways, co-op industries, social housing, public health and utilities, etc etc
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  40. Capitalism truths. Cobalt (even from artisan mining) has been used heavily in oil refinery to scrub the sulphur out of petrol and diesel for decades.
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  41. A battery with more than just 0.75kWh would be transformative to the prius-like power split engines. Allowing for quicker driving response and an adept battery capacity to soak up an entire hill with regen, instead of immediately filling up and loosing on efficiency gains.
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  42. Get ready for Aptera 👀👀
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  43. It's called a steam car
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  44. The difference is that African nations will actually utilise this - whereas us (politicans) in the west will spend millions on an electric or hydrogen bus ( or fire, police vehicle) for a photo opportunity and the new vehicle would sit idle and do at best 4000km per year.
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  45. ​ @Robbert_nl Yellow Peril
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  46. It'll be cool, but with communities, not police authorities
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  47. A SUM car is a very short distance away from being called something else.
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  48. I'd rather see them crash, executives reprimanded, and the structure be worker ran and owned as a proper American business should be
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  49. ​ @DWREV DW is famous for cherry picking what to report, such as Israel's attrocities in the West Bank and Gaza, Palestine.
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  50. Crossovers/SUVs = cheap inferior cars with 🤑🤑🤑 +20% profit margins
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