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Originally Posted by eco_generator
Lots of "glass is half empty" folks in here.
If you drive all highway, then you don't buy one. Hybrids are not inherently bad just because they don't do one specific thing good, like say tow a sailboat. Of course you would get something different.
And even in a "compromised" situation, the technology gets advanced on the gas engine and electric motor fronts because of inherent ineffeciencies. Therefore, both get engineering to make them as efficient as possible. Besides the batteries & electric stuff, the Prius/Insight led to innovations that made the ICE engine more efficient, too.
So I'd say stop whining about something that no one forces you to drive and just see the upside for future cars that come from what's learned... even if the current car is complicated with extra "stuff" in it. IMHO, of course.  |
I don't think the Prius introduced any groundbreaking ICE tech. The Insight as far as I know didn't either. They both feature Vtec-i in one fashion or another. The Prius is an atkinson cycle which is not new or "better" than a normal gasser. The Insight features lean burn that debuted in the CRX HF(almost 20 years ago).
The vehicles really making strides are oddly true blue domestics. Ford's DIE Ecoboost and GM's GDI cobalt are delivering new engine efficiencies. Just wait two years and you'll have throttleless GDI's That are capable of devouring the Prius and other hybrid platforms.