Hyundai Motor closes engine development division. All development will focus on EV

[nthach]

Heck, look at the original Prius and Leafs. I don't think those lasted long on the used market. The 1st and 2nd Gen Prius (2000-2009 era) and the 2010 Leafs are undesirable.

that’s because the 2nd gen Prius is no longer Uber-eligible(unless it’s Uber Eats) unless it’s a 08/09. Maybe for Doordash/Amazon Flex/Instacart it still is. Meanwhile, Uber and Lyft drivers are still seeking out 3rd gen Prii(if the head gasket is still intact). However, Hyundai/Kia and Nissan are the new Uber darlings, I see more Sonatas/Fortes, Niros, Ioniqs and Altimas - partly because many rideshare drivers lease cars from Hertz(Uber) or Lyft or buy them as ex-rental cars from BHPH lots due to bad credit.

The Prius(as well as the Prius-based New JPN Taxi) and the Crown Comfort is to Toyota like the Crown Vic was to Ford.

 

[4WD]

Where is this coming from? Crown Vic's don't require trans replacement every 70K, that's just not factually correct. We've owned two panther cars, the trans (an AOD) on my townie went 200,000 miles, the one on my dad's 03 currently has about 100,000 miles on it, problem-free. I've seen Limo's with half a million miles on their original trans still, heck, one had 1.2 million km, still original engine/trans.

Remember, the 4R75W (what replaced the AOD) was used in the F-150, E-series vans and other ford vehicles. It is not a trans that is prone to crapping the bed at 70,000 miles in typical service.

We had a fleet of Crown Vics - ran them hard with many miles on dirt roads etc …
Granted you were allowed to trade them past 90k - but few did because it had to happen on your time off and at one dealership in Houston … So you would keep going until you had to be in Houston for something else … seminars etc … Nothing, I mean nothing - broke on these cars …
(did have a mouse chew the steering wheel)

 

[TumblrDucks]

It has been my opinion that won't happen anytime soon, if ever. The first clue is that money always follows innovation, but the reverse is rarely true. We must know how to do something before we develop it into reality. What's happening today is really weird. We are pouring huge sums of money,, now well into the 10's of billions, (maybe into the hundreds of billions) into battery development, with literally nothing to show for it.

The reason is simple, lithium contains the highest number of ions, and we are already using lithium. Electrochemical energy storage has very finite limits. This is particularly true when we must both recharge and carry high currents.

I would like to offer this analogy: Gasoline has 116,000 BTU per gallon or more correctly about 20,000 BTU per pound. Despite attempts to make more energy dense fuel for the war efforts, nobody has been able to produce a viable liquid fuel that does better than "about" 20,000 BTU per pound. It is what it is, and nothing we do can change that. Gasoline, diesel, natural gas, etc all hover in this range of BTU per pound.

The below link is really cool. Put '1' gallon in the AMOUNT box and select your fuel to see it's energy content per pound. Hydrogen is the only fuel with higher BTU per pound. But good luck with that...

https://h2tools.org/hyarc/calculator-tools/lower-and-higher-heating-values-fuels

Just wondering if propane fuel cell will be the best option. Much much Higher energy density than battery while keep the EV driving experience, infrastructure is there (sort of), technology is there, easier to handle compare to hydrogen, cleaner than gasoline... Seems perfect to me.

 

[Vercingetorix]

Seems like another fabricated story:
https://apple.news/AOOH2n41UTBiDKJjHm32azw