Hybrid vs. EV: Which is Better to Buy? 

It is a bridge technology.

A Compromise product. Hybrids excels at nothing.

Ask an EV owner whats the best part of their car, and they will overwhelmingly state that the lack of maintenance, quiet ride, and fast acceleration. None of which a Toyota Hybrid offers. Hybrids offee none of EVs best attributes.

@@conchobarLet me be very clear. I am in no way against EVs and fully support their development and introduction into the mix of vehicle power sources. What I am against is the government mandating that EVs become the only source of power for consumer vehicles. Let the markets determine their viability and acceptance. However, EVs still have a way to go to become mainstream. It is probably another 10-15 years before that happens. There are still many people who live in apartments, condos, and homes without access to charging. There are many other disadvantages of EVs for a lot of consumers which I won't list here and now. Yet, I am still pro EVs for the future of automotive power choices (not for deceptive climate change reasons) while I also believe hybrids are a positive transitional choice.

​@SkyNetGeneral- EVs take around 2700 hundred gallons of fuel to create so they aren't really a fix either.

​@SkyNetGeneral- Also most of the worlds oil is not used for fuel, it's used to create plastic. The main ingredient in plastic is a derivative of crude oil. So when the world stops making plastics, phones, computers, tvs ect then we should talk 😅

@@SkyNetGeneral- I think you misunderstand, MORE oil goes to making these products than to fuel. So the oil/emissions is greater. Car emissions peaked in the 90s and has been steadily declining since. The main issue is consumer goods/plastic as the main oil consuming culprit, which causes the greenhouse emissions. Also the creation of EV's needs 2700 gallons, so the emissions are frontloaded and exported rather than avoided. Such as the need to ship the batteries to foreign countries to be produced due to the need for coal baking for the graphite. If we did it in the US we'd break our emission limits, so we just export them. EV's are not a fix ;)

@@SkyNetGeneral- Also the myth of the advantage becomes apparent the more they are driven is also not true, as the battery only lasts approx 7-15 years the needs to be replaced (again more fuel). It's just not a good fix.

@@SkyNetGeneral- Your numbers seem off, sources/references? :) Sounds like you're just trying to justify buying that model 3 ;)

Its hard to even get a hybrid right now. Months long waits on Toyota models. I lucked into a honda hybrid

25k for a battery? Battery replacement now is 12k - 15k with an anticipated reduction in costs over the next 5years.

@@daneflanigan The google search: how much does it cost to replace battery in mustang mach e The top result: The average cost for a Ford Mustang Mach-E Hybrid High Voltage Battery Replacement is between $42,005 and $42,159. Labor costs are estimated between $590 and $744 while parts are typically priced around $41,415. This range does not include taxes and fees, and does not factor in your unique location.

lol the mentality of people who don’t know things progress

@@christopherwarsh using child slavery to mine rare earth for your electric car is progressive to you?

​@@daneflanigan used, refurbished battery. Tesla won't give you new HV battery in warranty. REBUILT Battery.

Do you know if hybrids have less battery fires compared to EV's? I live in a Canada and almost all the cab drivers have hybrid Toyota's with major mileage and swear by them!

Hybrids have less fire problems, as some hybrids are made in Mexico. Look it up. @@holysmoke3201

You have a thing about asking stuff like its easy for them to produce videos. Make google your friend

to be fair the new Prius is a better redesign.

I think the Prius is cool actually. But only the new one

The new one is cool

Why do people pretend the batteries in a hyvrid dont suffer from all the ills of the battery in a BEV?

Ice - consumption 8% wltp Hyb - consumption 4% wltp Bev - consumltion 20kw wltp eq to 6% gas Ice is expensive on gas consumption and filters, oil because engine is bigger. Hyb dont have turbo intercooler and has smaller engine. Batery is small 1kw so is cheap to change Bev is cheapest as long as you don.t have to replace the battery 80kw.

All cars have 10 years waranty.. what failure you talking about

You remove some other maintance things in HEV

Hey, go google it yourself 😊

Maybe you should ask the people in Germany that question, not here.

She shouldn’t have gotten a GM hybrid, Toyota makes much better ones

Yep that's what happens when you buy from GM. Go Toyota

@@RRLV434 the Volt was a pretty good PHEV.

@@ALMX5DPI owned one, it was the worst vehicle i have ever owned, and i had a northstar.. 😂

@@rustbeltrobclassic2512 what made it the worst? I know someone with a second gen and they loved it.

Look at the homeowner here. Lucky you.

9k for a hybrid battery? What car do you have? Replaced my Battery in my 2012 Prius for 2k at 220k miles

​@@risingodstThat's very price. Is it a refurbished battery? Which shop did you get it?

@@kennethz4466 I got Nexcell Lithium V2 battery new it's a after Market battery it has higher capacity than OEM and get about 2 mpg more don't think 2k is that much

Omg😢

​@@risingodstthat ain't too bad.

I heard researchers recently found a way to control nuclear fusion or something like that.

It sound like you got a young mind. More ower car, fast driving EV. Yeah, until EV kicks your butt then you find out.

@@tonymai1844 not sure how the EV is going to kick me but I'm all for gas too...especially if you want feedback from your car ie sports cars. I'm just saying hybrid is a stop gap that adds complexity and cost just to save a few mpg and takes away from some of the advantages of both ice and electric

@@learningcameras I'd rather car companies spend more on developing better hybrids until there's some big breakthrough in battery technology or something else. I don't think I'd ever buy a full EV when you have to pay way more initially for the car and then wait for the charging infrastructure to be more fully developed and even then it won't reach everywhere. Compare that to a hybrid where you can get a good range boost without having to put in tons of electric chargers everywhere to service EVs. Also if there's any catastrophic event like hurricanes, earthquakes, mass outage of the electrical grid etc., you can always fall back to using gas.

@@UzumakiNaruto_ Again, what's the advantage to hybrid over ICE other than slightly better MPG. They tend to cost a few thousand more than ICE only cars, are more complex, the batteries eat up storage space, and obviously you still need to worry about battery replacements so the MPG savings are offset by the costs of purchasing/repairs. It will NEVER cost less than a ICE engine because it still requires an engine/transmission + battery + inverters + motors + re-gen + plug in power. So is it just to "reduce emissions" by ~10-20%? Why not just stick to ICE or invest in the next tech improvements. I'm not saying electric is perfect, but I don't understand the major benefits to forcing/developing hybrids other than slight emissions bragging rights probably offset by the additional hardware and power required to make them. Electric when it is developed fully will have major advantages in emissions but also instant acceleration, less moving parts, quieter operation, smoother, always on technology, more storage space, safer (all other things being equal) because of a low center of gravity and larger crumple zones, and the ability to reverse charge other devices for example. And with battery advances, I wouldn't be surprised if they could eventually price batteries/motors cheaper than an engine/transmission

@@learningcameras *Again, what's the advantage to hybrid over ICE other than slightly better MPG. They tend to cost a few thousand more than ICE only cars, are more complex, the batteries eat up storage space, and obviously you still need to worry about battery replacements so the MPG savings are offset by the costs of purchasing/repairs.* I think its more than slightly better gas mileage especially if you're driving in the city with high traffic and the electric motor can takeover when you're idling alot to save gas. Also don't have to eat up alot of space when you place it behind the rear seats and under the trunk mat. At most it just eats into where you put a spare tire somewhat. As for cost of replacing a battery, it could go down significantly if you have authorized, experienced manufacturers being allowed to make 3rd party batteries that you can change as easily as you currently change your car batteries in gas vehicles. That's why I'm in favor of car companies refining hybrids to be better, more reliable and more easily maintained including when it comes to changing the hybrid's battery. If you can make it so that all you have to do is pull out the old hybrid battery and put in a new one and make a few connections the same as you do with a regular car battery, I don't see why costs wouldn't drastically go down especially when you no longer need a mechanic to do it for you. *I'm not saying electric is perfect, but I don't understand the major benefits to forcing/developing hybrids other than slight emissions bragging rights probably offset by the additional hardware and power required to make them.* I think the biggest benefit of not going full electric is that you don't have to build an entire new network to support electric vehicles. You get some of the benefits of EVs with better mileage without wasting tons of resources to build all these charging stations as well as increasing electric generation infrastructure to support charging all these EVs. Right now when the majority of cars aren't EVs it isn't a big deal, but what happens when you have millions of EVs on the road and hundreds of thousands need to be charged simultaneously daily? That electricity has to come from somewhere and you need enough station capacity to plug in all these vehicles. Doesn't seem very environmentally friendly to me when you have to build hundreds of thousands of these charging stations everywhere and then build new electric generation infrastructure to power everything. Seems like we're just moving alot of the pollution from directly coming out of car tailpipes to farther back in the system where you need to use so many resources to support all these new EVs on the roads. And lastly as I said before in times of emergency when you may not have access to power, its just so easy to simply get a can of gas and pour it into your tank and then you're ready to go. And even when its not an emergency there's always going to be parts of a country in remote rural areas that you're not going to find a charging station because its too costly to build and maintain one. I live in Canada and there are vast parts of the country that are almost empty save for a small city or town here or there. Then when you go up north where there are alot of native communities many of them are in the middle of nowhere where you only have a single dirt road to get to some of these places while others can only be reached by plane or boat. For many Canadians I seriously doubt living with an EV is going to be feasible or practical compared to buying a hybrid or simply sticking with a gas vehicle. If you live in the city or suburbs sure it could work fine, but if you live anywhere farther out? Depending on how far you could make it work, but why not just get a gas or hybrid and not have to worry about it at all?