Comments by "Be Low Below" (@toyotaprius79) on "driving 4 answers" channel.

  1. It can take a engineer to make an engine out of a jam jar, but I wouldn't trust an engineer to make a decent jar of jam.
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  2. Just call it what it is, a compound engine. Steam cars, tractors and locomotives used it the most.
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  3. Athens, famous for its crisp and healthy air quality
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  4. If you consider the reality of external costs (on our health, environment, security etc) oil producers and shareholders should be heavily taxed
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  5. 5 stroke: Suck Squeeze Bang Blow and Leave
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  6. A planetary gear set but with some extra steps
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  7. That reason alone VW stopped sales of its TDI for 2-3 years, spending millions in advertising and lobbying for clean diesel
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  8. Someone who gets it. Shucking diesel was all about the reduced tax, and turbocharging existing Turbo diesel technology that VW, Opel/GM, MercBenz and Peugeot have invested heavily in. This ultimately backfired with dieselgate while China (and Tesla) was over 5 years into its electric industrial transformation
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  9.  @pbe6965  unfortunately Toyota isn't as innovative as we like to think them to be. Miller engines were most known for the Mazda Xedos 9. In Toyota's hybrids the power train is literally programmed with all kinds of dizzying inputs and outputs. Many people have tried and failed to slap on a turbo or supercharger to the engine of a hybrid but every time the sensors recognise the difference it cuts throttle. Only one dude in North America bolted a 660cc kei turbo on a 1st gen Prius with improved economy and hill climbing stamina.
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  10. That ship sailed 15 years ago, when Toyota still valued D4D diesels as much more profitable until 2016, rejecting over a decade of R&D for modest plugin hybrids. Now Toyota is miserably behind the Chinese. There's no fact in your claim that hybrids are more environmentally friendly than EVs, especially when the majority of every new Toyota is an expensive SUV that negates any benefit from hybridisation. Ask yourself why Toyota didn't copy Hyundai's lead with the prius-looking Ioniq from 2016.
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  11.  @danic.927  Fun fact! Just before the Titanic and sister ship was built, the dock workers of Belfast were segregated by the pro-British workers Union, Councils and the bosses themselves in retaliation to a 1906 Strike led by Irish revolutionaries. The segregation was violent obviously and over 90% of workers by 1911 were protestants/pro-British and were conditioned further to distrust their catholic/Irish former co-workers. The more you know... 🌠
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  12.  @bastiangugu4083  thank you
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  13.  @MikhailSharpowicz  there was one steam airplane
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  14. Just Have A Think
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  15. Bingo 60 years of spending oil money on motorways instead of rebuilding and improving rail is a tragic story across Europe. Hi from Ireland
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  16.  @d4a  Ty!
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  17.  @brettbuck7362  bedsides the Atkinson cycle with a virtual cvt
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  18.  @brianmack6285  all of the yes, of course. EXCEPT where series hybrids/generators underperform most is at high speed cruising where a constant demand for amps is demanded. Whereas in a parallel hybrid or even in a regular ICE car with a tall gear speed, the inherent inefficiency of a combustion engine and its excess spin sees an improvement in economy at higher crusing speeds.
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  19. Or the paid-for white replacement and anti-NatureRestorationLaw protestors!?
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  20. that's fossil fuelled fascism in a nutshell.
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  21. ​​ @readyforlol who framed roger rabbit
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  22. They're all a concern, we can't pick and choose which pollution affects us or not. What should be also a big concern is the billions your government gives in fuel subsidies in exchange bribery, executive career paths and meaningless honourary titles, etc But that's not limited to oil, your rivers and beaches are full of sewage and wealthy water company dividends, debt crises, homelessness and poverty are at record levels not seen since before in over half a century, and more.
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  23. Firsty*
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  24. One long tail consequence from the past to not have supported the Zionist genocidal onslaught
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  25. Electric buses are perfectly capable. Trucks should be replaced by trains and short distance lorries/vans/cargo bikes. But over 60 years of destroying railways for laying billions of tonnes and millions of miles of tarmac for short term profit is what we've inherited.
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  26. ​ @Hk7762Tube really, all I see on Xhitter are blue tick neonazis
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  27. Are you typing from 2014?
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  28. ​ @xZeroGrxvity what if the end consumer had a nationally owned service ..
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  29. Are they all over 55 and children and grandchildren of nazi members? Same people who support the genocide of Palestine by Israel
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  30. Just remember all of us in Europe have traded oil dependency from Russian to American Oil But Germany is too afraid of the ubiquitous solar and battery production from China, but not too afraid of importing nitzche Temu crap selling 1/3rd of Germany's auto sales in China...
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  31. Lmao if you think you're talking about this heat trap of a climate... Then what you're thinking of is the incestuous inflation-profitering cycle Profits create inflation Inflation accumatively reduces the value of the profits Faulty economic logic dictates that Profits must grow against inflation Therefore more inflation. Cars, oil, housing, services, groceries, lending, debt servicing, etc. Talk about pretending 😂
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  32. ​ @MrLucidity projection much
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  33. More like their ignorant opposition to Solar, wind and storage production from China. More than happy to sell diesels to them.
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  34. ​​​ @sudd3660 half of what you're criticising are logistical, warehousing and servicing issues as result of corporate incompetence. And a general increase in complexity that only gets serviced under warranty like every new car unfortunately. Even Toyota s hybrids were slated for battery replacements , not because there were so many but because Toyota did not intend to service and repair a 2% failure rate for batteries, very much like regular transmissions. Hence stupid €4000 quotes when refurbished/voltage balanced packs from salvage cost less than €900 Only the Chinese seems to be producing more than enough batteries where cell replacements aren't ridiculously expensive.
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  35. ​ @vill5325 and the credit bubble
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  36. Phantasm thinking, whatever that keeps your bubble safe
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  37. Just Have A Think, and breathe in that sweet NOx air while you're in gridlock traffic on a hot day.
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  38.  @noscopesallowed8128  big time
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  39. First world democracy ✨🌈☠️
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  40. ​ @d4a the history of 20th century politics is littered with amiable cooperation with private interests. Turned out well for Italy and Germany...
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  41. firsty*
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  42. ​​​ @alexstromberg7696 they produce our cheap shit products owned by western brands that was externalised there since the 80s/90s. Go figure. China's and India's coal consumption are peaker plants like our "natural" gas plants. The most inefficient way in production of energy. At least China is actually doing something with solar, wind, nuclear and crucially energy storage with Sodium ion
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  43. That was the UK admittedly, and uncritically feeding into Israel's genocidal campaign and Ukraine's NATOvsRussia death trap.
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  44. Can't we not just have a compact, short-stroke opposed piston engine with one cylinder?
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  45. Public transport
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  46. Repeat of 2008 Profit breeds Inflation Profit is expected to grow for shareholders no matter what Inflation reduces the value of profits Luxury SUVs and Crossovers are most profitable... Therefore inflation, therefore price rises to preserve profits
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  47. ​ @Velkanis have you heard how CARB was destroyed and NiMH battery patent embargoes by Chevron?
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