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@TechConnectify Great video. I have been trying to do some research on good cars to get while wanting to transition away from gas. I don't know if there are good cheap EVs, so it's good to know more on how Hybrid Cars work.
I still don't know what company is best to buy from if I want to avoid companies adding subscriptions to things, but I do still appreciate the knowledge on hybrids and will consider getting one if I can't find a good EV especially since I can't currently set up home charging
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... because your future self is worth treating, too.
Love it.
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I would indeed recommend PHEVs (plug-in hybrids) mostly to people having a charging opportunity at home or at work. Else you run on fuel anyway with the small batteries most PHEVs have.
@TechConnectify great video! May I ask what device you used to grab and plot the measurements?
@TechConnectify and you did a very good job
@TechConnectify Having owned a plug in hybrid Volt I'd say they're great.
@TechConnectify Great job! special thanks for explainig the issues of the series hybrid systems in cars. Thanks.
@TechConnectify as someone who just went full electric and and loves it but was harassed to go hybrid because range or something stupid... I think I'll find this very interesting. 😊
@TechConnectify Many thanks! I've really learned something, and I'm only half-way through. Glad to know that hybrid cars aren't as bad as I thought. (But I still don't like driving them.)
@TechConnectify This is a terrific video explaining for me all sorts of things I didn't even know I didn't know!
Excellent work!
@TechConnectify watching A-Team atm, def watching this after Hannibal's plan comes together.
@TechConnectify I thought the point of hybrid cars is to steal government subsidies which were meant for actual EVs by making a fossil fuel powered car cosplay as a EV.
@TechConnectify Loved the extras video advocating for minivans! I LOVED the vans I've owned for all the reasons you mentioned. They can often haul FULL SHEETS of plywood easily!
@TechConnectify I would love to know how you figure this stuff out.
If I just type "what are the trade-offs of a hybrid engine?" into Google, I could never arrive at the picture you present.
(I don't think I could have, even before the current infestation of AI slop results. I just don't know how to get started on answering a deep question in a domain I'm not familiar with).
From your other videos I know you're good at reading patents to figure out how stuff works, but this goes beyond that.
@sbrudenell In this case, it's genuinely because I think about energy a lot and what consumes it in what processes.
Understanding the inefficiencies of things helps identify opportunities. Then when you look at what engineers are doing to leverage those opportunities, you can piece together the details.
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).
@electropict Given the cars you've just mentioned, remember that the US gallon is smaller than an Imperial gallon by a pretty large margin.
I wasn't sure but have checked. Good point.
So 34mpger(US) = 40.8mpg(IMP)?
It beats the 1987 Citroen, certainly. I note later you mention that it's a 2.5L engine; presumably that's a part of why it's still behind the 16-year-older Renault ICE. (Which is also what you're calling a minivan, though that's not how I'm used to the word being applied.)
Other than the slightly shocking realisation that hybrids may be heavier on the juice than I'd expect, nice video btw. 🙂
@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/
