Technology Connections is a gem of a channel. I had no real idea how hybrids worked and fundamentally misunderstood and dismissed them. Living in rural australia and having to do long trips (passengers, no towing etc) and very little charging infrastructure that is a far more attractive technology than I had imagined. Also mini vans rule. So much space. Big comfy seats. Love stowing the seats and filling them up with tools, tents, mowers, bikes, boxes from ikea, all out of the elements. Most SUV drivers are posers.
I’m not going to watch this video right now, but I think it’s easy to understand for plug in hybrids. 30km range on the battery is enough for your daily commute & you gain a lot of efficiency by not having to carry 500kg battery around.
it’s the opposite. plugin hybrid have consistently been demonstrated to be way less efficient than advertised. (in part because of how they works in part because of how people use them)
Such a huge fan of what Technology Connections is doing, especially more recently with his “we have the technology to be more efficient already” angle and just under the surface political rage.
I know my prius isn’t as good as an EV for most of the driving I do, but it’s way better than any other internal combustion system on the market. When my wife’s beater kicks the bucket we’re definitely replacing it with an EV and keeping the prius for long hauls.
Science has already solved all these problems, they’ve been shouting about it for years, in some cases decades. the problem is we stopped listening to science and looking to science for answers, and instead started listening to companies who want to sell us things and looking to them for answers.
