The most retarded invention of all times. Will give you no benefits whatsoever on the highways but heavier weight increasing your fuel consumption. Ruins the feel of the car as the driveline abruptly shifts from electric motor to engine randomly. Weird acceleration and often gutted engines leading to hybrids feel like nothing more than taxis. And coincidentally enough mostly only loved by Uber jeets. Prone to fires, prone to failures, difficult and expensive to repair. If you're not driving a car with a pure driveline, then you're basically the tranny version of cars.
www.dailymail.com/news/article-15688381/emergency-services-tracking-fires-hybrid-cars.html>Emergency services are overhauling how they investigate accidents involving hybrid cars after The Mail on Sunday revealed that motorists are three times more likely to die in hybrids than in petrol cars.Experts believe the heightened death rate could be down to the combination of petrol engines, batteries and electric motors, which make them more prone to fires. >Some say that when it comes to safety ‘they are the worst of both worlds’.Ministers last night confirmed that fire and rescue services will now track what causes the blazes. >First responders will report whether the source of ignition was a battery and whether that battery was on charge at the time of the incident.A total of 122 people died in hybrid car crashes in 2024, compared with 777 in accidents involving petrol cars, according to Department for Transport figures analysed by the MoS.>But as hybrids are outnumbered by almost 20 to 1 on Britain’s roads by petrol models, that means hybrids are three times more likely to be involved in a fatal crash. Previously, the Government did not accept that there is a problem.
>>28925265Is it even possible to have fun driving a hybrid? The ones I've driven all feel like shit. The car functions neither as predictable as an engine car or as electric car. It feels like a true point A to B tool with no joy or driver expression to speak.
>>28925280I had some fun driving a friend's CRZ, to my knowledge that's the only manual hybrid though
>>28925280>Is it even possible to have fun driving a hybrid?Yes, it is as long as you stick to incredibely expensive ones
>>28925333LaFerrari mogs
>>28925265>heavier weight increasing your fuel consumptionpants on head retarded OP, opinion discarded
>>28925350Hybrids have shittier fuel consumption on highways over the same engine without hybrid enshitification.
>>28925265>The most retarded invention of all times. Will give you no benefits whatsoever on the highways but heavier weight increasing your fuel consumption.Hybrids have superior range to both pure ice and EVThey also weight way less than EVs, which are heavy as fuck compared to all other carsA retard made this thread
>>28925265the battery on a prius weighs <200 pounds. any highway speed efficiency losses are more than offset by the efficiency gains at "city" speeds, because acceleration events are highly inefficient.
>>28925448>muh raaaangeeee ISSA ONLY METRIC THAT MATTERS Past 300 miles of range, nobody cares. I'd rather drive a quick and engine silent EV for 300 miles than a choked hybrid tranny car with a shitty combustion engine shitting itself at 4000 RPM.
>>28925265>Prone to fires, prone to failures, difficult and expensive to repair.The only maintenance a shitty old Prius even needs is a ~$2000 battery every 20 years or so, and that includes a warranty at that price. Hell, you can get 200k miles out of the original brakes, even. It's a soulless appliance, but at their depreciated price a used old Prius is one of the most economical choices a poorfag can make these days. They tend to last a really long time otherwise.>>28925280Honda's made a few with available manual transmissions and VTEC motors. An old insight weighs under 2000lbs and has a manual for instance, so the "muh hybrids = heavy" isn't even a valid argument.
>>28925265The easiest solution to the lesser highway efficiency problem is radical aerodynamics. Extreme aerodynamic efficiency paired with a modern hybrid power train would be exceedingly effective.
>>28925756A car is more than just efficiency.
>>28925320Honda has done it four times, the 1st gen Insight, 7th gen Civic hybrid, and Japan only 2nd gen Fit hybrid are the others. Currently in other markets there are a few other brands that have done manual hybrids, though most of them amount to little more than an auto start stop system rather than a proper hybrid that uses an electric motor to send power to the wheels.
>>28925805so the oil companies and their friends on madison avenue tell us!
>>28925265>the driveline abruptly shifts from electric motor to engine randomlywhat are you talking about? the drivetrain uses both together
>>28925265I like hybrids because they're so much more reliable than a comparable modern drivetrain. No turbo, no CVT, plus regen braking is just nice.
>>28925265Flex PHEVs are the ultimate solution:> runs on gas> runs on ethanol> runs on electricitytriple redundancy and the best range, these mog ICE bommers
>>28925265Werks for me :^)
>>28925265Fuck hybrids and fuck soiyota for pushing them onto the masses
>>28927311>car laying on the side from a crash>works.
