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@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/
@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
