Well I can tell you that the oil industry and businesses that rely on oil all have a vested interest in doing everything they can to stop or slow down BEV adoption.

Agree with the point you’re making here, but there’s also a lot of pointless hate that gets thrown at hybrids just for being a half-measure, that doesn’t do justice to how many hurdles we still have to get over for widespread BEV usage.

“I have to wonder, is Japan subsidizing/supporting Toyota’s hydrogen future?”

My dad retired to WY. It was fascinating to me that folks would use a windmill to mechanically draw water from a well, and then make fun of my dad for installing one to generate electricity and charge a battery pack.

Series/Parallel. That's the reason why. Ford makes them too and their reliability is proven. What they achieve through planetary gear sets is the ability to reduce or disconnect the load from the road away from the engine. That's what the large electric motor does. 

4X is poorly named... like ID.4 or M3 ?

Not that long ago people were speaking of hybrids the same way many here are speaking of EV’s.  “People won’t buy them until they reach price parity with their ICE equivalents” etc.  Now they are “normal” and lots of people buy them.  The same progression will happen with EVs.  Batteries will improve.  Prices will…

Installing them in a vehicle smaller than a Bluebird bus and lighter than a cement mixer might be a good place to start.

I have to wonder, is Japan subsidizing/supporting Toyota’s hydrogen future? I’ve heard hydrogen is quite prevalent there and with Honda also offering hydrogen cars and Hyundai selling only their hydrogen Nexo and EV Ioniq 5 in Japan it would seem that there’s overall a big infrastructure push toward hydrogen on the…

That is not a very accurate assessment. If a Prius weighed 5000 pounds maybe, but they are only a little heavier than my Civic and lighter than a volt by a couple hundred pounds. Toyota’s hybrid system has a mechanically simple transmission, there really aren’t a lot of parts to wear out.  I replaced the engine in a…

It’s interesting because Dodge, Ram or whatever you prefer to refer to it is replacing the hemi with a turbo inline six and Ford seems to be hedging it’s bets with both Ecoboost and 2 different V8 architectures. For my own personal pickups I do like a larger low stress engine because of reliability and cheaper…

Sure, with an enthusiast eye. But when it concerns their sales volume, where the majority of their revenue comes from light & heavy duty truck sales, this is an important upgrade.

I mean pretty much of course they need to keep developing their V8 engines for trucks, unless they expect people to tow less than 100 miles before needing a 2 hour charge for their giant batteries.

My hybrid Ford has been one of the most reliable vehicles I’ve ever owned.  Much of the stuff that normally goes bad on ICE cars isn’t there (starter, alternator, belts, etc.) It doesn’t have all the weight of an EV because it only hauls around a little battery, but it gets double the gas mileage of cars of similar…

I love how people say things like “there are still the dirty parts about EV’s no one wants to talk about” when literally every article and comment thread about EVs is chock full of misinformation about how batteries can’t be recycled (they can), or how lithium and rare earth mining is uniquely harmful (it isn’t), or…

18,700 is literally the average State Senate district size for Wyoming.

Republicans are now, more than ever, demonstrably too stupid to govern.

Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann, who have been the top observers of Congress over the past 30 years, have written frequently on how the two political parties are not mirror images of each other. Democrats still focus on policy and governance and are willing to compromise; whereas, Republicans have gotten caught in a…

“allowing their State Senators to waste time and resources on political stunts.”

Republicans are not interested in governing and only exist to enrich their overlords and keep the rubes riled up to vote for them.