

Toyota is developing a next-generation hybrid powertrain that is expected to deliver a roughly 15 percent improvement in fuel economy.

Toyota is developing a next-generation hybrid powertrain that is expected to deliver a roughly 15 percent improvement in fuel economy.
Fifteen percent, against what baseline, and over what cycle? WLTP or some lab fantasy nobody driving on the M6 at 5pm will ever see? We’ve had decades of “efficiency breakthroughs” that vanished the moment a real road and a real traffic jam got involved. And who is paying for the battery upgrade, the dealer markup or the poor sod with a 2019 model they can’t afford to replace?