On 4 Apr 2021 at 14:23, Robert Bruninga via EV wrote: > During my EV eganguelising I am forever correcting people who think a > hybrid is an EV. It is not. But a plugin hybrid is. We have to > correct those mistakes wherever they occur.
I've been fighting this battle since the Piius came out in 1997. It's futile, and by now I'm sure that most of you are rolling your eyes, but I just can't seem to let it go. IMO if all of a vehicle's motive energy comes from fuel burned in an ICE, it's not a hybrid, period. Vehicles such as the Prius are essentially somewhat feeble ICEVs made more powerful with electric superchargers. I had a long argu - uh, discussion with a mechanic a while back. He declared that the quasi-hybrids like the Prius were pointless because "by the time I work on them they're all running totally on their gas engines." Well, duh! I tried to explain that that's the way they're SUPPOSED to run, but he wasn't having it. Twenty+ years ago, some of us thought that the quasi-hybrids (then just the Toyota Prius and Honda Insight) might be useful for getting "normal" vehicle buyers accustomed to the idea of EVs. You may disagree, but I don't think that they did much. What DID get real world ICE-heads thinking that EVs might be OK was the Tesla S. David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = One of the problems with modern society is that it places more importance on things that have a price than on things that have a value. -- Pablo Fajardo = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
