This is not a good thing. Self charging hybrids are the worst of both worlds. Hybrids fullstop are. A hybrid will barely scrape 30MPG running on the ICE engine which is much less than a pure ICE engined vehicle does. The battery gets less range per kWh because it’s lugging around the additional weight of an ICE engine and fuel tank, which could be as much as a quarter to a third of the weight of the vehicle, so the benefits of running on electricity are lowered.
The modern cars seem just plain insane. Like you can buy a 10 year old Diesel car that consumes 4 litres per 100km. The modern hybrids with gasoline engines guzzle 8 litres of gas per hundred km after the battery is exhausted. It seems there has been no improvement in gasoline engines in twenty years. They could be designed to use RE85 ethanol, but WTF! These as*holes still sell cars burning plain gasoline. With diesel you at least can use biofuels, which may or may not be more ecological. And every car manufacturer still prioritizes power and acceleration, like it was the 90’s. Are everybody completely mad, or am I?
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This is not a good thing. Self charging hybrids are the worst of both worlds. Hybrids fullstop are. A hybrid will barely scrape 30MPG running on the ICE engine which is much less than a pure ICE engined vehicle does. The battery gets less range per kWh because it’s lugging around the additional weight of an ICE engine and fuel tank, which could be as much as a quarter to a third of the weight of the vehicle, so the benefits of running on electricity are lowered.
The modern cars seem just plain insane. Like you can buy a 10 year old Diesel car that consumes 4 litres per 100km. The modern hybrids with gasoline engines guzzle 8 litres of gas per hundred km after the battery is exhausted. It seems there has been no improvement in gasoline engines in twenty years. They could be designed to use RE85 ethanol, but WTF! These as*holes still sell cars burning plain gasoline. With diesel you at least can use biofuels, which may or may not be more ecological. And every car manufacturer still prioritizes power and acceleration, like it was the 90’s. Are everybody completely mad, or am I?
It just doesn’t make any sense at all.