Excellent history lesson! While many enjoy tearing things down, there are some of us in the background silently working to build foundations that will help people now and in the future. These are the good people.
I literally thought the same thing. So while I own a hybrid, I read the WSJ article and the proposed vehicle sounds like it is plug in electric, with a back up gasoline engine. However, the mileage quoted is equal to my hybrid. My hybrid has no plug and charges while braking etc. I am guessing that with this vehicle in the article you would never have to use the gas unless you were unable to plug in at all. Where my hybrid eventually depletes the gas regardless. Hopefully that made sense. I will advocate for hybrids here and tell you that once you get one, it’s hard to go back to straight gas. I went from hybrid back to regular gas vehicle and I traded it in after two years because the amount of money I spent in gas was a car payment alone. My hybrid I fill once every five weeks typically.
I am retired so life is about having all the fun I can while I can. So, I have a 2-door Wrangler (replaced the 2020 Outback) that sucks gas and we just traded our Legacy and got a ‘26 Lexus IS 350 6 cylinder. It loves gas but goes like a bat out of hell, especially in F Sport mode. No auto loans so I can afford the car payment gas price. Between the two we barely hit 12,000 miles a year. That’s about $2K a year in gas.
Excellent history lesson! While many enjoy tearing things down, there are some of us in the background silently working to build foundations that will help people now and in the future. These are the good people.
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Just curious, but doesn't adding a gasoline engine to an EV make it a hybrid?
Great one again Bill! Never surprised by that.
“… EVs with gas generators to solve range anxiety.”
If it is an only a generator for the electric motor and not part of the propulsion system would that make it a hybrid hybrid?
Good question. I didn’t read the article. Just seems like an EV should be all electric to me.
I literally thought the same thing. So while I own a hybrid, I read the WSJ article and the proposed vehicle sounds like it is plug in electric, with a back up gasoline engine. However, the mileage quoted is equal to my hybrid. My hybrid has no plug and charges while braking etc. I am guessing that with this vehicle in the article you would never have to use the gas unless you were unable to plug in at all. Where my hybrid eventually depletes the gas regardless. Hopefully that made sense. I will advocate for hybrids here and tell you that once you get one, it’s hard to go back to straight gas. I went from hybrid back to regular gas vehicle and I traded it in after two years because the amount of money I spent in gas was a car payment alone. My hybrid I fill once every five weeks typically.
I have a hybrid as well and I agree!
We had a hybrid in the mid-2000s and loved it.
I am retired so life is about having all the fun I can while I can. So, I have a 2-door Wrangler (replaced the 2020 Outback) that sucks gas and we just traded our Legacy and got a ‘26 Lexus IS 350 6 cylinder. It loves gas but goes like a bat out of hell, especially in F Sport mode. No auto loans so I can afford the car payment gas price. Between the two we barely hit 12,000 miles a year. That’s about $2K a year in gas.
Love your stories like this!!
Thanks!!