God it would be great if Toyota went bankrupt and they are auctioned off for parts, someone needs to get ahold of this supposed SSB advancement that actually wants BEV to succeed and not just to push out more compliance cars and waste batteries on hybrids.
You do realize that mathematically, using a finite amount of battery resource on hybrids over BEVs generates a much larger GHG reduction at scale, and results in a higher volume of cars that many more people can actually afford right? Turns out partially addressing the problem for a large chunk of the market has a larger raw GHG impact than a more aggressive fix for a fraction of that number of vehicles, as BEVs need at least 5x the amount of battery capacity each on average but don’t produce that scale of additional environmental benefit of even a basic hybrid for the vast majority of drivers.
The big BEV push over PHEV and even traditional hybrids, in the US at least, is largely political and not science based, even in the stupid agency I work for.
Source: I help manage energy and carbon mitigation programs for the US EPA, including those touching EVs and EV charging.
God it would be great if Toyota went bankrupt and they are auctioned off for parts, someone needs to get ahold of this supposed SSB advancement that actually wants BEV to succeed and not just to push out more compliance cars and waste batteries on hybrids.
You do realize that mathematically, using a finite amount of battery resource on hybrids over BEVs generates a much larger GHG reduction at scale, and results in a higher volume of cars that many more people can actually afford right? Turns out partially addressing the problem for a large chunk of the market has a larger raw GHG impact than a more aggressive fix for a fraction of that number of vehicles, as BEVs need at least 5x the amount of battery capacity each on average but don’t produce that scale of additional environmental benefit of even a basic hybrid for the vast majority of drivers.
The big BEV push over PHEV and even traditional hybrids, in the US at least, is largely political and not science based, even in the stupid agency I work for.
Source: I help manage energy and carbon mitigation programs for the US EPA, including those touching EVs and EV charging.