Basically, the huge-personal-truck model doesn’t work so well with batteries. Making them cheap enough means making them small…which Ford didn’t try to do
Basically, the huge-personal-truck model doesn’t work so well with batteries. Making them cheap enough means making them small…which Ford didn’t try to do
Hybrids have two drivetrains you have to pay for. That is a fact. Nothing you can say will change that.
Those taxis could last to 999,999 miles if they kept dumping money into them. Because that is all that determines how long a car stays on the road.
Gas drivetrains have spark plugs, ignition coils, distributors, valve cover gaskets, air filters, fuel filters, timing belts, water pumps, accessory belts, oil, oil filters, coolant, crankshaft seals, rear main seals, oil pan gaskets, transmission pan gaskets, transmission filters, transmission fluid, differential fluid, power steering fluid, and on and on and on and that’s just the maintenance.
EVs have none of that and like you mentioned the brakes last way longer than on gas engines.
So why would anyone waste money on a hybrid when they can get an EV?
You are obviously shilling the way you are campaigning for hybrids.