Re:The Toyota Prius Transformed the Auto Industry
by bloudermilk on Saturday January 18, 2025 @12:55PM
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This video is my favorite on the topic: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O61WihMRdjM&pp=ygUKV2ViZXIgcmF...
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Re:The Toyota Prius Transformed the Auto Industry
by hedgehog on Saturday January 18, 2025 @03:46PM
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That's really good, I watched one of their older videos to understand what I was getting into before I bought a Toyota a few years back. For those reading, the video is from Weber State University, they have a series of hourish long detailed videos on various automotive components including different versions of the Toyota electric transaxle and rear electric drive unit (mechanically separate but present in the AWD vehicles).
My takeaway was the same as some of the other posters here, the system is an engineering tour de force. Simpler than the gas version, proven reliability, and efficiency not too far off the theoretical limit of gas-burning drive trains.
Re:The Toyota Prius Transformed the Auto Industry
by jval43 on Saturday January 18, 2025 @03:55PM
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That video is what made me get a Toyota hybrid.
Seeing how simple the whole mechanism is, I totally get why the empirical reliability is so good.
Not to mention that the lecturer shows and explains things very clearly.