Featured Toyota Says You’ve Been Misled—Most “Hybrids” Aren’t Really Hybrids

it's the internet, we have to argue

 

You were talking climate impact, that involves carbon emissions. A study from several years back(was discussed here) calculated the 'best bang for the buck' in terms battery capacity for reducing carbon emissions from the personal vehicle fleet. Building a bunch of diesel mild hybrids does more for that reduction than a few full hybrids and plug ins.

With the battery from a Rav4 PHV, we can replace...

• 1 ICE SUV with a PHEV
• 18 ICE SUVs with full hybrids
• 90 ICE SUVs with diesel mild hybrids

A single PHEV will reduce an individual's carbon emissions by a lot, but leaves a lot of straight ICE cars on the road. More hybrids means even greater carbon reductions over the entire fleet.

Aside, how does the commute cost less than a BEV when even the bZ4X is more efficient?

 

Where can I get my diesel mild hybrid please?

Hopefully a small sedan or hatchback with a stick-shift.

 

High compression Diesel is not built to be start/stopped. It must run constantly to be efficient. In theory a constantly running battery backup would work but that's countering what we think of as a hybrid
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There was a standards based list available a while back. It specified the various types. There were:
series hybrids
parallel hybrids
series/parallel hybrids
mild hybrids

The Mild hybrids are often set up to use a hefty battery to start and stop the engine.