Toyota "self-charging" hybrids

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

There's a big need for a €10 per first hour over full charge and then a €10 a minute charge afterwards to free up charge points, that's the key to having access to all to charge points and not Nissan Leaf owners on 3 bars at 7.30 am leaving their cars on charge until they come home from work and doing this 5 days a week like a selfish ultra w@nker.

Presumably you're referring to slow or AC or what many call destination chargers rather than Rapid chargers. There are a lot of leafs in the country so no surprise they are going to be regularly found at charge points but not sure why you are singling leafs out for special attention though as all car brands can be found hogging charge points. I regularly use the on street e-cars charge points and lately find that many of these are regularly 'hogged' by PHEV's including Range Rovers, Volvos and Porche's. Not sure who would be considered more 'selfish untra [EMAIL="w@nkers'"]w@nkers'[/EMAIL] !!

Personally I don't believe anyone should hog a 'destination' charger all day if not charging but many don't agree

Deleted User wrote: »

Anyone who would buy that over a Kona for instance would be mad even though I think the Kona is too expensive for a Hyundai the Prius PHEV is too expensive for something with 8.8 Kwh battery.

The Kona isn't a PHEV, so not sure why you're comparing it. I agree the Prius PHV is stupidly expensive in Ireland, I'm surprised they're selling any at all, though I suspect >80% of those "sales" are demo cars. Even my 2012 Plug-in from NI was ex-demo (it was originally nearly £28k new).

The current one will do around 40 km in the real world, which is comparable to other PHEVs out there.

But it's a PHEV so has an ICE too - you think they just stick that in (and the hybrid transaxle, etc.) for free? A battery is just one component, and that comparison makes little sense. PHEVs generally aren't the cheapest option, and the Prius PHV in particular is well-specced with a few new/expensive features (matrix LED headlights, carbon fibre hatch, etc.). It's not a cheap car for various reasons.

If you've got toyota supplying the looters and ford supplying the police, I'll take a ford please.

McGaggs wrote: »

TBH, the looters is a better endorsement of the functionality of the product. You don't see many Ford trucks with machine guns mounted in the bed for a reason.

Nor do you see many hybrid toyotas with them

Kramer wrote: »

I didn't think car companies were political but anyway, Toyota hybrids are apparently the choice for BLM .

https://twitter.com/toyotaireland/status/1351190142715887617

I'm actually confused with your reference to black lives matters tbh

Old diesel wrote: »

I'm actually confused with your reference to black lives matters tbh

Toyota Ireland tweeted about someone who had spoken to their staff. I'd no idea who she was so clicked on her Twitter bio, to educate myself.
The banner that pops up is BLM. She seems to be promoting BLM.

I assume she has some connection with Toyota - she likely drives a hybrid :pac:.

I'm interested in Toyota as I'm thinking of one of their self charging cars - the money I'd save on fuel & electricity would be insane .