Neutral: Yeah, and in Ireland nonetheless! As soon as the taxi drivers started adopting used 5 year old JDM Priuses and them closing their holes about the dangers of hybrid batteries, the hybrid car just became accepted as a no-brainer option of choice for a new or new car. If you’re driving on anything other than a…

I would have the same hybrid (Gen 2 Prius?) that has 4.9" of ground clearance I think. I am sure I’ve driven through that town before last year without trouble. Driving in rural Ireland has its own reputations and a noticeable presence of boyracers or skangers or worse in Passats, A4s, Corollas, Colts, Starlets and…

It was such a lazy sin too. The lack of 5th seat was because of the Prime’s extra rearward weight (and no change to suspension set up?), the charger is not located there. The 2020 Prime should have uprated springs now.

The bigger loss is still the positioning of that battery back eating away at vertical trunk space;…

Needs a front bench seat

Youtube comments consistently are the source of the worst written messages modern humankind has to offer.

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2000s Multipla in my mind always had it looked like manboobs, or baps as we call them. The lights are like large nipples. I found this funny to point out on the street growing up as a kid.

Not sure why not. It’s capable for high performance loads, I’m sure it should handle approx or above 200 hp load from a generator generating amps.

The hybrid it was sold with was definitely interesting.

Everyone clam yo tits. Remember, there’s a Tesla ‘gigafactory 3’ factory (without any Chinese joint venture) being built in Shanghai. When completed by around October it will produce the highly contested $35,000 cars, understandably because they’ll be built in China.

I don’t think none of you guys who are arguing that ‘‘electric doesn’t mean its reliable’’ understand rail transport too well. Not least because most older metros from before the 90s are brush motored using much older inverters and resistors for +500V.

And isn’t NYC metro (which I’m guessing is the prime ample in mind…

It’s a single private car in a tunnel. That’s what made it so hard for me to love this Boring idea. If Elon sought this as a way to reduce the cost of tunneling for mass transit - like a damned train, then he’d be on a winner with this one.
There are many cities that are dying for a cheaper underground solution *cough*…

Almost 9 years later had Jalopnik discovered this? Damn.. hell and I pretty much forgot about thus and the rage there was when it was deleted in 2015.

It’s an MPV, relax. Did you forget about the Citroen C4 Picasso all of a sudden?

I’m shure MI6 snuck in a turbo range extender in there.

Wish we knew. All of the die-hards seem to have rushed into the Tesla ‘fan-base’ once the Iron Man billionaire started making headlines with his more famous and talked about SpaceX. ~2013/14?

for the electric motor to be the sole source of power for the rear wheels

A lot of plug-in advocates were confused wondered at Toyota too, whether it was missed engineering opportunity or snobbery. Remember, Toyota did make two iterations of the RAV4 EV, but ‘sold’ in numbers strictly meant to meet CARB credits.

For its first plug-in hybrid, the 2012 ‘Pip’ had a meager 4.4kWh 11 mile range pa…

Granted a decade ago people didn’t know how hybrid power numbers add up, but now it’s flatly funny how it’s still a mystery to our American friends.

ICE HP + HV battery assist HP = total HP.
The efficient beauty of hybrids lost on many is that it can use anywhere as low as 0.5 HP to get moving, whereas any lone…

This makes me worried for other small Li-ion hybrids, like the Nissan e-Power. If they had proper coolant ducting, would the cost and engineering benefit of Li-ion vs NiMH be lost?