Toyota's next hybrids to cut fuel use by 15 percent
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Toyota's next-generation hybrid powertrain is expected to reduce fuel consumption by around 15 percent.

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

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  • Fiona MontgomeryEnglish
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    8 days ago

    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?

  • George KensingtonEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Fifteen percent better than what, exactly, and measured on whose test cycle? Every carmaker quotes figures that never survive a wet Tuesday in Leeds.

  • Arthur EllingtonEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Fifteen percent, “expected”, “next-generation”. So a press release about a product that doesn’t exist yet, and somehow this is news. Wake me when they ship one.