Hybrids Vs PHEVs vs All Electric, page-35

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    I'm sure companies like Tesla & Toyota will have those kind of stats.

    Just from observation in my suburb, the owners on Plug-ins
    and Hybrids are all professional middle class people
    (doctors , medical specialists, accountants , solicitors
    and a few teachers )

    Tesla 3 seems to be the most popular plug-in while Toyota
    Camry hybrid is certainly the most popular hybrid

    The Taxi station next suburb is virtually all Camry Hybrids.

    From a mechanical point of view, the Toyota hybrid transmission
    is an ingenious system IMO. The planetary ECVT does not have
    cones.steel belts and complex hydraulic/control solonoids ;
    just simple dual planets , 2 generator motors , a reduction gear
    and a normal transaxle . The damper is interesting, IMO, because
    ot permits a seamless on/off of the engine ; so much so that
    one has to look at the screen to determine when the car is
    in full EV mode or when under complementary engine power



    Others have variations on this system with internal add-ons;
    just more to go wrong, IMO.
 
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