Will they actually be available or will it be the 2-year waitlist like so many other cars these days?

With the focus on “performance” and despite the CVT, does the Prius Prime have paddle shifters or a “gear” select like the RAV4 Prime? Wondering how much passing power this thing has. It past versions it would have been helpful to ask for a lower gear for some extra oomph.

Comparisons between the new one and the current. Especially the shiftstick.

How fast can you charge from 15% to 80% battery? How many people can you cram into it stacked like firewood?

If the consequences of this are bad enough, there is definitely a non-zero chance that the feds hire “emergency” crews and lease the big 4's equipment to run critical services. From there, there is another non-zero chance we fall ass-backwards into nationalization via some sort of big RR collapse, essentially a repeat…

Why not nationalization? Capitalism clearly isn’t going to regulate itself by this point. Lets start going communist.

The tracks themselves should probably be public infrastructure (they are in pretty much every other 1st world country). Having private operators run trains on them wouldn’t necessarily be dysfunctional.

Nationalization? I don’t like it but, if it is important enough to the economy for Congress to vote to tell you that “you have to go to work or we will throw you in jail”, then it is basically just the military with worse benefits.

It’s honestly amazing party Democrats have any foot left to shoot at...

Yup.

Their first EV should have been a Prius variant. The R2-D2 naming scheme of their EV doesn’t make any sense.

That was my thought as well; outside of that, it looks like a computer mouse.

I’m fainting with damn praise. 

My daughter in law (to be) has a Prius C. It’s a good capable car and not nearly as boring as you think it should be, because it weighs only slightly more that a good juicy fart and is small.

I was a huge prius hater until I drove one for a week and it’s completely changed my mind. It’s a basic commuter and it’s so good at it, it’s annoying. I’d love one as a second family car that offsets all the silly enthusiast weekend stuff. Prius is invisible, comfortable, great greenhouse, highly decent storage, and…

Eh, give yourself a break. In this day and age, Prius-hating is hardly a new or worthwhile pursuit. Especially when Toyota have finally opted to move away from the weird crumpled-paper aesthetic.

Reading this, I remember that making cars is hard. And making EVs is double black diamond hard. EVs just plan cost more to design and build right now.

It’s probably time for a generational update, but yeah, they’ve certainly kept working on it during it’s lifespan. 

Yes, really. Most wouldn’t be able to tell the difference with the exterior.