@@cheesebusiness Thank you very much. I'll buy a used car as my first car this month, and maybe I'll want to install an Android system in it. This way I know already what to look for when searching for these systems.👍
I've owned a Mazda, two nissans, two Hondas, and now a Prius. Even my two saturns were Japanese based technology. Japanese cars are far superior to anything on the market IM hO.
Nothing more true that this comment. Every german car I tested was crap consuming and fragile as chewing gum, compared with my Toyota's. Now I own a Toyota Hybrid. Simply the best!
At 0:56, the video states that the "generator" (actually, MG1) produces electricity and passes it to the "motor" (actually, MG2) which drives the wheels. Actually, this happens only at low speed and during acceleration or climbing a steep hill. It is the equivalent of being in a low gear. Once you're up to speed, the complete reverse happens. Power is drawn from the final drive by MG2 and passed back to MG1 to decrease the engine spin and therefore increase fuel economy. This is the equivalent of being in overdrive. Without this subtlety, you'll never properly understand this drivetrain.
@@attilakhan4606 Placing a load on the generator to charge the batteries or drive the motor changes the rotation ratio between it and the engine, this effectively lowers the engine speed while wheel speed stays the same. This is achieved without a belt and cone system like most CVTs, simplifying the system and increasing durability.
@@amateurtorque6709 : To simplify slightly, the battery is only used as a significant source of power in two situations, first if the engine cannot produce the power requested by the driver and second if the battery can produce _all_ the power so that the engine can be stopped. The transfer of electrical power between MG2 and MG1 should not be confused with draining or charging the battery. Under acceleration, power demand is high (we assume for this discussion). To get that power from the engine (forget the battery), the car first opens up the throttle to increase torque and (assuming that's not enough) allows MG1 to spin faster so as to increase the engine spin. Electrical power is now generated by MG1 (again, forget the battery) and passed to MG2 where it becomes additional torque at the wheels. This is what is explained in the video. Only if the engine torque and spin cannot be raised enough to supply the power demand is the battery used. The point of my comment is that under normal power demand the exact opposite happens. Torque is stolen from the wheels by MG2, becoming electrical power that is passed to MG1 which spins in the other direction so as to reduce the engine spin and increase fuel economy. Please post again if this is still unclear.
The hybrid battery dies after a few years. Issue with lag (not the engine not having enough power to move the vehicle - just the engine deciding whether or not to work). Necessary to have more than yearly maintenance done on the vehicle. More than that, only the dealer can perform maintenance on the vehicle, therefore driving up maintenance costs. Not saying I don’t like hybrids, but they aren’t exactly the greatest thing since sliced bread. IMO, if you really hate big oil then Hydrogen powered vehicles are the way to go - that way you aren’t paying for gasoline at all.
@@alexandranorris1763 10 years warranty for Toyota hybrid battery. It's not going to die in few years. Do some research about Toyotas hybrid system reliability before posting false statemets anywhere else.
@@alexandranorris1763 And do some research about hydrogen cars service while you at it. It's not like your ICE car that you can take to your friend's garage for maintenence. I'm not hybrid fanboy, but for me it seems the most effective. ICE will stay for a long long time to come, like it or not. EV is still in baby shoes, making it very expensive and time costly. Hydrogen, while it looks like the answer, still also very expencive to produce and transport. There is nowhere near amount of stations to fill your car. So yeah, at the moment hybrid is the way because price compared to ICE only is similar and if you learn to drive it correctly you use half the gasoline you used to + batteries have come long way and will last.
I remember I was thinking of a design for a hybrid go kart where the engine had a torque converter with a centrifugal clutch on the output, where the clutch housing (which is the clutch output itself with a sprocket directly attached to it which drives a chain) attached to an electric motor which functions as both the generator and the drive motor. Now that I have watched this, I might consider designing something like the power split unit so the motor and engine can run together without the speed differential of the two either burning the clutch or slowing the entire thing down.
I own a hybrid camry, And it is the best investment I have ever made. I know that it is advertised as 40mpg, but I've gotten up to 80mpg from it. I couldn't be any happier.
I own it too, 2010. Very good car. Bought used at 60k km and now over 230k km. No major issues. I did replace 12v battery though, tires and breaks but this is very normal. It never failed to start even at -35C in Winnipeg, Canada!
I bought a Corolla car and I'm driving it is really very economical. Excellent job Toyota. Goes 1000 kilometers with a tank of fuel. at least 700 kilometers. If you force it will go 1100 km.
Consider the power split device alone, it provides infinite gear ratio selection and mind blowing simple design, with nearly zero maintenance. It is a greatest transmission of all time. The transition of the traditional CVT to the new eCVT, Toyota has solved the last puzzle of the hybrid system and make it a great choice beyond the electric vehicle.
the most phenomenal thing about this concept is to me when im sailing high seated, silent and comfortable like a king in the 2,2ton RX450h with a big V6 3,5ltr petrol engine (245hp) cruising in the city with a fuel consumption of a Fiat 500 !
@@MattePaavi That's the entire purpose of why hybrids exist... The 2018 RX450h has rated fuel consumption at 7.5L/100km in the city, which is even better on fuel than the 2018 Fiat 500 which is rated at 8.4L/100km in the city. Look up the facts before you speak out of your ass.
Trains are just diesel electric most of the time, which simply means that the engine is driving a generator that drives the traction motors, though they usually have resistibe braking which is when the power generated by the traction motors is sennt to a resistor and transformed into heat
I HAVE PRIUS 2008 AND 2018. THE 2008 IS NOW OVER 260,000 K.M. AND STILL RUNNING ON 5 LITER PER 100 K.M. (ZERO FAILURES !) THE 2018 IS MUCH MORE MODERN AND SPORTIVI AND RUN ON 4.2 LITRE PER 100 K.M.!! TOYOTA IS A WONDER !
The regenerative braking system that charges the battery is the marvel. In a gas car A/C, steering, braking all run off the engine. Everything run off a belt from the crankshaft in a gas car. Everything in a hybrid needs to run off electricity, so it runs when you are stopped or anytime the gas engine is off. Regenerative braking generally keeps the battery topped off so these systems use NO gas. In extended freeway driving the engine may charge the batteries. Big deal, every car gets good freeway mileage, including hybrids. I drove 90 miles today, mostly freeway, and the gas engine never needed to charge the battery. When you are slowing down to a stop and stopping you use NO gas. The three minutes I wait for the trolley to come by and the lights to go green I use no gas. My pickup truck uses a LOT of gas waiting for the light to go green. I can "idle" the last half mile slightly downhill to my house with the engine off the whole way. No gas consumption. You car does everything it did before being a hybrid but it uses less gas being a hybrid. Why does this offend so many people?
Its not that the issue offends anyone. It is that people with knowledge of engineering know that there is simple truths about mechanics. First, for each part you add in a system, you have one more point of potential failure. While there is some truth to what you say, that you aren't 'using gas' to stop or slow down, that doesn't mean that you didn't at some point collect energy (Which in this closed, single fuel, system, means GAS). You in *fact* used gas to generate the power which is used for those things. It is just now stored in a battery. Which again, a part which has a limited life span. Even if you don't use it, a battery goes bad. Thinking this energy doesn't come from the gasoline at some point is a fallacy. Another truth that people with knowledge of engineering know, is that when you convert power from one form to another, you experience loss in radiation, heat, vibration, sound, etc. So when you are converting this kinetic energy to electricity... and then back again... you are getting a loss of energy. This means, in the scope of development of a car which centers around combustion, you will theoretically get more efficiency out of a combustion engine which has no or little hybrid components. Why was this not the case, and why were hybrids developed? it is easy to make a hybrid that is efficient, than do the complex physics calculations required to make a purely combustion engine more efficient. Hybrids are lazy engineering, frankly.
@Thunderloins I agree with you, not only diesels get a better fuel economy than Hybrid cars, they also have less wear and tear components. Which makes them more durable.
Hybrids are lazy engineering? Cripes! What a sweeping and somewhat misleading statement. As a person who has bought, owned and driven a 2008 Prius Hybrid for 4.5 years without any problems or indeed, mechanical failures, I absolutely disagree with that statement. It seems most humans are scared of anything new. A century ago, they were scared of each other, often based on something as stupid as the colour of their skins! Today, they’re mortified of new Hybrid and EV technologies that are revolutionising automobile transport. I’ve save almost £5,000 in fuel bills in the UK, driving an OLD 2008 Prius Tspirit! Mechanical failures? Don’t make me laugh. The 2nd Generation Prius Hybrid was way over engineered. Nothing has broken on mine. After a lifetime of driving conventional automobiles, the Prius has been a revelation, and the most reliable vehicle I have ever owned.Look around you. Those vehicles are still running around everywhere you look. I did do my homework before I bought one too. Yes, the frugal fuel consumption figures and unparalleled reliability of this vehicle looked too good to be true, yet, checking out reviews of people who actually owned and drove one (thank you PriusChat) as against reading myths made up by ignoramii was what made up my mind. And I wasn’t disappointed. Suffice to say 10,000,000+ (and steadily rising) Toyota Hybrid owners can’t be wrong. The final icing on the cake is most major manufacturers are now producing hybrids of their own. Even F1 Racing are now utilising Hybrid technology. I drive an old Prius and I love the technology, the way it’s saving me money everyday, and the solid reliability of the “Hybrid Synergy Drive” technology which is tried, tested and proven. The newer models are even better, more frugal on fuel, and the plug in versions are the holy grails of Hybrid technology. Hybrids are a step in the right direction for the future of motoring. There are 2nd Prii that have done 400,000 miles on their original engines and batteries. If that ain’t reliability to be proud of, I don’t know what is. Don’t take my word for it, the Internet is awash with genuine testimonials of people who own and drive these vehicles. Visit the Prius Chat website, and get a true perspective of what owning one of these Toyota Hybrids is really like.
Sorry...... sorry I have to bite. I've owned a Prius since 2010, and put more than 112,000 miles on it. All it's needed is routine servicing, which has cost me significantly less than any other car I have owned. If I had bought a diesel, chances are that by now I'd have had to pay out for: timing belt changes, DPF cleaning or replacement, and more frequent replacement of brake discs and pads due to the heavier weight at the front. Remember that regenerative braking takes the load off the normal friction brakes - as such, I got 90,000 miles out of one set of discs and pads.
All ICE vehicle will be gone in the future. First ICE has carbon emission that cause air pollution including global warming and climate change due to slowly destroying ozone layer due green house gas. Even if new ICE vehicle has low emission rate but we have millions of vehicle in every country if you are going to measure all of the emession rate and combined the carbon emission that still in harmful level. ICE is powered by gasoline or diessel fuel both fossil fuel and fossile fuel is not renewable and will be depleted in the in the future so it will be useless of having an ICE vehicle without fuel. So smart electric vehicle with super fast charging and long distance travel is the future of modern vehicle. The only way for the ICE vehicle to survive is to make an engine with zero emission and also to produce an artificial fuel to replace the depleting supply of fossil fuel in the future
I am enjoying RAV4 hybrid adjusting routes that helped fuel economy. Getting twice as much MPG then previous found on road dead fix or repair daily Ford.
It was stupid to bring up the environment. You could potentially alienate some customers, and tree huggers will like it even if you don't say anything like that.
2 things that feel would make the hybrid synergy drive better: The OPTION to plug it in and start with a full battery every day sounds much better than having to rely on the petrol engine alone to recharge. Lithium batteries over nickel: higher energy density for the weight, and can handle irregular charged much better than nickel. A higher torque motor: I'm all for efficiency but I test drove the Toyota chr and for a 1.8l I had absolutely no power to get up to speed on the motorway entry ramp. Cars like the VW golf GTe had much more punch from the electric motor when it's assisting the engine. It's annoying because other than that I love how kitted out the cars are for the price and how easy they are on the motorway once you're on them.
Love both and the fact that the Prius is build around and for the HSD like no other Toyota Hybrid, which only adapt the system somehow without being build for it. But in my eyes the car around the HSD and the way it is shaped is a big part of the HSD and its efficiency and shouldn't be overlooked. That's a big difference and sets the Prius, Nr. 4 is the best of all in many ways, miles apart from his family members.
I bet this would be a better system if Toyota made the "main" engine electric instead of gasoline. That way you'd have the acceleration and power of a Tesla with the range and convenience of a gasoline engine e.g. no overnight charging required! The battery module has to be a bit bigger though.
Now if only Japan would import all their other cool hybrids to the US... When you've travelled in Japan, the number of vehicle classes in the US that are still straight gas with no hybrid option being sold by Japanese companies is just disgusting. You all are breathing all that brake dust.
Paris is banning all diesel vehicles starting in 2020. Germany is banning all internal combustion engines in 2040. Internal combustion is on it's way out because of pollution in cities.
Meanwhile in America half the population drives SUVs and pickup trucks which on average pollute over 300 grams of co2 every km. A Prius is less than 100 grams of co2 every km.
John Puccetti Thankfully i live in the US of A! I'll keep my F150 that makes 75 grams too much CO2 lol You know...Germany banned books before, if I'm not mistaken. I don't think we need to follow France or Germany anytime soon.
The best and maybe most hidden thing is that it starts with the electric motor first. You may not know this but i have now done 2 hours of reasearching and on this and this is the best result i got. If it did not i would not even bother paying for it. Thats how important that is, just remeber that idling is not a case anymore for that car, for others its blah, but for the car well i guess it living twice than any other.
The hybrid is already past ... Therefore, in the evolution of a car, let's say it started from coal - steam-oil- benzine- hybrid- and finally (Electric and Hydrogen) they fight for the position of first place in this half century
Let's promote super fuel the fuel of the future. This will helps us to protect the planet from from hazardous by product of our engines. My car using it and no need for refuelling no for recharging. Let's talk and go beyond the planet and explore the universe.
Toyota is the best. Tesla is depleting all the lithium in the world plus they are making environmental disaster!!! What are they going to do with all the used batteries Tesla ? You can build 60 Toyota Hybrid cars with one battery pack that Tesla uses.
BULLSHIT ! E.-cars sucks !! full Hybrid is the way to go..... my RX450h (230000km!) is a dream and i get 6,5-7,5ltr/100km with that 2,2ton ship in city and countryroad ! still the 300hp sometimes can smoke fat german SUV´s with 4 pipes and they see no pipe out of my Lexus :-)
This is terrible thing. We had CH-R and this car is ridiculous. Seems that each part of the car was doing different team and finally they put it together, no care what other team did :D
. I have 100€ and now remain to have the other what shall be 29 900€ _ now - but I would be wanted only use engine or system - the all others ah forgot about
Got a Prius (non-prime) one week, bought another for my wife the next. I look at the size of the 2019 and say, "I don't need that much space very often. Maybe I should've gotten something smaller with better gas mi... Never mind."
One question bugs me. When you hold one component of a planetary gear set solid and rotate another component, the third component responds. But it can respond with only so much force you hold the first component down, otherwise your hold breaks if the output has too high resistance. Now, with "holding down" replaced by electric motors, how is the force to set the car in motion transmitted to the output? How is such a great force resisted by the small MG1 or the infernal combustion engine so that the wheels get turned?
its not about the battery size, the hybrid part mostly made to work on lower speeds like in cities, if you drive on fast highways a lot it isn't as useful for you
Can anyone tell me how many Amperimeters the car is generating from a breake stop (from 50 km/h to zero (0 km/h)) and how many Amperimeter there is in all of the batteries?
When you drive, say at around 60 mph, do BOTH the gas engine and electric motor simultaneously supply the energy to the vehicle to achieve mpg efficiency? We know that the EV mode come on mostly at low speeds, telling the driver electric propulsion is being used.
@@amateurtorque6709 citroen ds5, peugeot 3008, peugeot 508. they even have developed a air hybrid car. instead of electricity, they compress air to store recuperation. www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry/psa-peugeot-citroen-seeks-partners-hybrid-air-tech
Héctor Fernando oil changes says nothing about the engine. For a long engine life a engine needs to get on Temperature, always starting the cold engine is not efficiency and a cold engine needs more oil
Its for me very ok. If an electric car with range of 500km and quick charge of 1/2hour and the price about 15.000.- euro. Never think about fossil cars
не понимаю, почему объединяют пожароопасный и не экономичный бензиновый двигатель с электро установкой, которая при авариях легко воспламеняет бензин????!
Already invented. Toyota made the hydrogen cell based Mirai. It uses hydrogen to produce electricity,that it can stored on a large battery and can move car too. Toyota gives you the choice how exactly want to move. You can use your stored energy,you can use directly the energy from the hydrogen generator,or,if you want to take the 100% of the power,you can use both.
kostasauris I'm familiar with the HFC Mirai, which generates electrical energy on demand, but Toyota have firmly banked on HFC technology over battery rather than settling for a hybrid. HFC isn't widely accepted, much less than charge points and gas stations. It also has the setback of having to use more energy have sting hydrogen and storing under high pressure, as well as dealing with explosive hazards of worse consequence to a fuel tank explosion on rupture. If Toyota employed a more dynamic approach, such as 100 mile range electric HFC extender, perhaps it would garner more interest in the green vehicles world. However, most see it as a back step from EV, as there would still need to be a lot more overheads in transporting, generating and storing H gas. It's still impressive technology that could be used for planes, trucking fleets etc, but I see the adoption in the personal vehicle world being slim.
I just bought one only a week old. Supposed to get 41mpg in town and mine is doing about 37.5. Am told that more time, it gets better so I'm hoping. Still though, for an SUV in town, 38 mpg isn't bad. I'm in colder weather and betting by next Summer, it will be where it's supposed to.
@Thái Đoàn Trần Do you have an email that I could contact you through ? Im making a video about the new Toyota auris and were wondering if this was non copyright or copyrighted ? Or if its possible for me to use it ?
