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Location issues are weird, eh?
"...a shockingly consistent 34 miles per gallon..." from a 2021 hybrid? And that's 50% more range than its predecessor...?
But ... it's worse than most plain ICEs since about 1990, equal to my 1987 Citroen, long gone, worse than my current crappy old (2005) Renault (c.45mpg in Summer, maybe 42 in Winter, until you do long journeys when it can get up to 59 with a tailwind).
@TechConnectify The captions at the end didn't have the thing! 😱
@TechConnectify Huh, I wonder if the continuously variable transmission on fancy electric box bikes works the same way https://enviolo.com/technology/
@TechConnectify as a driver of a 2007 Prius…this clarified several things for me about how the vehicle makes the choices it makes, thank you!
@TechConnectify Huh, apparently this is also how the continuously variable transmission on fancy electric box bikes works! https://enviolo.com/technology/
@TechConnectify i am glad you pointed out that getting the plug in option probably would cost me fuel economy. It’s really easy to kick myself for buying the base prius instead of the base plug in for another $5000 or so, but negotiating getting a plug at my apartment might have just not even been worth it for my regular habits.
@TechConnectify pointless aside: on the way to the in-laws we cross a "pass" (700m above sea level going down to sea level), and braking on the way down generates more energy than fits in the hybrid's battery.
So, – I am that kind of nerd – I plug the phones into the car at the top to charge them and not let the energy go to waste. We still arrive at the bottom with a full car battery and 10% more charge in the phones (I believe limited by the power output of the car's USB-C receptacle)
@TechConnectify Toyota isn't perfect but I'm glad I picked a hybrid from them after my last vehicle died.
@TechConnectify one of the only good things ford has done is used toyotas tech in their phev escape
@TechConnectify "I needed to floor it to get around that truck"
Sounds to me like something that indicators could* have communicated to the driver in the other lane during the time the lights were red?!?
* Not saying you didn't have the indicators on - you're not driving a BMW - but I find it so frustrating when people who find themselves in the wrong lane and don't indicate to the people behind them "hey, please let me pull over into your lane" during red and pull over just as you accelerate
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I shall watch this 👀
@TechConnectify 55 minutes of something i still don't understand (and definitely would never buy, unlike pure electric)? Must see!
@TechConnectify It's fun when I get to tell people my Accord hybrid has no transmission.
