The article's talking about the CRV. Big stretch to say it's coming to the Type R. Regular Civic may get a hybrid trim.
Yes, it's about the CR-V but that tells me that Honda is indeed working on the hybrid. All of the cars will use some/all of the new tech.
Word from Torrance is that the CTR will carry through MY 2021. They are mulling over a limited production trim for the last 6 months of the model cycle as well.
Frankly, at this point, anything other than Google navigation is pure crap. Touring with Navi is a complete and utter waste of time.
Mmm... Hybrid crap like the Prius that has been phenomenally reliable and successful. Like it or not, long term, electric motors as the prime mover in the car is the future.
Now tell me this was just a random brain fart... Right off the hop, the tech has been around before WW2 (Ferdinand Porsche) to say nothing of the dozen or more projects in the 1980s or the Prius, Gen1 Honda Insight, Audi Duo, Civic Hybrid starting in 2002 and the Ford Escape in 2005. Technology moves fast and it doesn't take 40 years to develop a whole new powertrain layout. Oh and every single Diesel electric locomotive.
I would say no for the Type R for the near term but for sure, if Honda can get the batteries for a good price, they have reasonable storage, they are ALL plugin hybrids and not just hybrids and the price for the option is only at most a 10% premium... It will be in nearly everything. Ridgeline, van, you name it. When your system is primarily electric motors, even large vehicles like the Ridgeline even loaded down, are not an issue to move.
I'll consider them when I can charge it in the same amount of time it takes me to fill up my gas tank.
Hybrids are cool though, the hate on them is ridiculous at this point. I've seen older Prii on the road plenty of times.
Electric motors are flat out an inevitability. The only issue has been energy storage and delivery/replenishment. If the storage and use issue was never there, we would likely never have had ICE or certainly not at the level we ended up.
Yes, they are. When they are from Japan. Electric motors are wildly more reliable and can be built to deliver far more power per pound than any ICE could ever dream.
I listed the Prius because you claimed there was no or little proof of reliability and that claim is demonstrably false.
Only early adopters pay more. Would you like to explain to me how people bought ICE cars before the model T?
There has been a demand for electrics for a very long time. The issue that haunts the product are manifold. They include the lack of a proper method of storage (As noted), all the way to companies and dealerships not being keen on the rather large drop in maintenance and repairs needed for the powertrain of an EV and either staying away as they don't have a way to properly monetize it yet or flat out deliberate undermining.
And Canada too. There are more charger stations in the province I live than there are EVs or PHEVs. This doesn't mean there isn't a demand. It means there is a lack of product available at the right price.
PFFT!!!!! You can stop in that one word with that line of thought...
Totally agree on tax credits/subsidies. They should not be in play. But again, even here, we see simply that it is not that the product is not wanted but the prices are not desirable. If you can buy a car that only costs say at most 3 years of fuel costs if it was ICE, they will sell a lot faster. All these stupid Teslas are just high end virtue signal toys.
I'm not an EV fan for the same reason - massive government incentives were paying half the cost of a Tesla - tax the middle class to pay for toys for the rich.
On your electric bill for those of us that dont have enough sunlight to go solar. I'd need twice the panels at least compared to someone in Cali.
