Chris Remington@beehaw.orgM to Technology@beehaw.org · 4 days agoEVs Just Outsold Gas Cars In Europe For The First Timeinsideevs.comexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up179arrow-down11
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minus-squarekbal@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up4·4 days agoThe typical hybrid is still 100% powered by fossil fuels. The main thing they’ve done for us is demonstrate the Jevons Paradox.
minus-squarerealitista@lemmus.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 days agoMy hybrid only gets filled with gas a few times a year. We plug it in when we get home and it runs almost entirely on electric except for long trips.
minus-squareMidnitte@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·3 days agoThis discrepancy might be due to US perspectives - our “hybrids” (or, at least the cars marketed as hybrids) are by and large driven by fossil fuels. Cars like the Prius Prime are oddities here.
minus-squarerealitista@lemmus.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoYeah I would never buy one that wasn’t plug in. And the size of my city, Prague, is a lot more conducive to the range of a plug in hybrid than the average American city might be.
The typical hybrid is still 100% powered by fossil fuels. The main thing they’ve done for us is demonstrate the Jevons Paradox.
My hybrid only gets filled with gas a few times a year. We plug it in when we get home and it runs almost entirely on electric except for long trips.
This discrepancy might be due to US perspectives - our “hybrids” (or, at least the cars marketed as hybrids) are by and large driven by fossil fuels.
Cars like the Prius Prime are oddities here.
Yeah I would never buy one that wasn’t plug in. And the size of my city, Prague, is a lot more conducive to the range of a plug in hybrid than the average American city might be.