Worth discussing the cabin heating systems of the vehicles being tested, too.

The problem is that they’re not credible efforts. (You would’ve gotten further if you had said the Kona or Niro EV instead of the Ioniq, but even they have problems, and availability is also a huge problem with them due to battery supply constraints.)

Yeah, I agree with you on that - in my area, even on grid mix, a Model 3 LR beats my Prius handily, and I expect even with the awful enactment of Ohio HB 6 (which includes subsidies for failing coal and nuclear plants, and effective repeal of Ohio’s renewable portfolio standard), emissions will go down.

It actually does, my bolding:

https://blog.ucsusa.org/dave-reichmuth/new-data-show-electric-vehicles-continue-to-get-cleaner

The reason why a power split hybrid like the Pacifica wouldn’t have a tow rating would be cooling, really.

Also, I think the Prius buyer 15 or 20 years ago was much more of an early adopter. Now that the technology’s proven, the later adopters are willing to buy the more conventional models with the same tech.

You’re replying to someone who has a very long history of spreading massive FUD about EV charging.

Fundamentally, it was just a really awkward compromise, that was an attempt to solve a real problem, but not in the way it needed to be solved.

Depends on your definition of a hybrid.

It’s weird, because the format of endurance racing is the one that is hardest for a BEV to be competitive in.

Bring whitewalls back.

It’s not that they’re smoking anything, it’s that they’re only reporting one of the tests that are used to make a full fuel economy test cycle.

20 minutes, though, not 5 hours. (Although “20 minutes to get enough juice” makes me think you were either quite far from the airport, or had a very old Model S, or something was wrong with the battery (which is an issue...))

Yeah, that’s not a Tesla - Tesla doesn’t include charging cards with their cars, you just use the Supercharger network and get automatically billed.

Needs video of someone’s random SRT4 minivan... with a giant turbo:

However, a MPV does not need sliding doors - see the Renault Espace, which is as prototypical for the European MPV market as the Chrysler minivans were for the US minivan market.

They did put some gray plastic around the bottom edge.

Honestly, I suspect the big problem with the e-Power system is what it’ll do on real-world highway driving.

Toyota’s hybrid powertrains really are brutally simple - I’d argue even simpler than a manual, let alone any automatic. Nothing ever shifts (we’ll ignore the stuff that gets put in some Lexus hybrids), the “core” of the transmission is just a single planetary gearset with the engine connected to the planet carrier, a…