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Wife's friend arrived in a Toyota Prius Hybrid.... 16 Years old still on original Battery and 16000Ks.
Battery technology has moved on since then.... Longer life ? The cost account would not like that no replacement dollars to earn.
Time will tell
 

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We have two Toyotas Hybrid at home.
Paula's Camry and Albert's Prius C.
Hardly use fuel, extra quiet and reliability to the max.
 

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16,000km?? Does the overall cost (financial and environmental) add up compared to a car with a conventional motor in such low usage?
 
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16,000km?? Does the overall cost (financial and environmental) add up compared to a car with a conventional motor in such low usage?
The Lady owner is Street wise . a visit to the dealer once was all that was needed. Never again !
Mileage is 160,000Ks my Seniors moment ,,,,,
 

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The premium price for any type of vehicle using a non conventional powertrain will come down, however it will still take a while.
The car companies still want to sell cars, and making these “green” vehicles so expensive will certainly push people away. Only the true dedicated are willing to pay super expensive prices for this type of vehicle.
This is where Toyota have done so well, they are well down the path of development of hybrid, thus the prices are fairly reasonable, but you may notice other companies have surpassed them when it comes to plug in, or plug in electric hybrid.
MG, have seemed to have leap frogged them all, now producing a 5 star ANCAP (and 5 star NCAP) plug in electric vehicle.
I won’t be surprised if they produce a hydrogen fuel cell series production car soon, where others are still playing with the idea.

No doubt about it, the Chinese are wanting to dominate this market, and they are producing products at a frightening rate of numbers and are of extremely high quality.
What I have seen in the Chinese truck & bus market is that if they produce something that can be improved, or made better, it will be fixed and in production within months, not years as other manufacturers do.

In fact the MG is already outselling it’s Toyota competition here in Australia right now.
 

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You’re welcome Sean.

At Volvo Group Australia, we now have a new term “E Mob” short for electro mobility.
I will be come a “Sustainability Ambassador” and will train new staff and customers around this new way of thinking and operating.
A whole new division within VGA has been set up with a new VP as part of the Senior Leadership Team.
Volvo global is very committed to this, and have made the mandate of no diesel trucks by 2050, and zero emission steel being produced and used by 2030.

We have a full electric prototype Volvo in operation with Linfox, with more to come.
Full electric trucks are great in city driving, but still very limited on open highway, as there is no braking to re generate batteries.

This is the next hurdle, in electric trucks moving forward, range V battery weight & recharge times.
 

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......................boys and girls, I'll stick to my frugal 6.9 that comes with the genuine helicopter noise - 24l./100 kms. Just kidding as it is more like 17 - honest!
 

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For quick reference purposes, below is a conversion table that you can use to convert from L/100km to Imperial mpg.

L/100km to Imperial mpg Conversion Chart​

L/100kmImperial mpg
1 L/100km282.481 Imperial mpg
2 L/100km141.2405 Imperial mpg
3 L/100km94.16033333 Imperial mpg
4 L/100km70.62025 Imperial mpg
5 L/100km56.4962 Imperial mpg
6 L/100km47.08016667 Imperial mpg
7 L/100km40.35442857 Imperial mpg
8 L/100km35.310125 Imperial mpg
9 L/100km31.38677778 Imperial mpg
10 L/100km28.2481 Imperial mpg
11 L/100km25.68009091 Imperial mpg
12 L/100km23.54008333 Imperial mpg
13 L/100km21.72930769 Imperial mpg
14 L/100km20.17721429 Imperial mpg
15 L/100km18.83206667 Imperial mpg
20 L/100km14.12405 Imperial mpg
25 L/100km11.29924 Imperial mpg
30 L/100km9.41603333 Imperial mpg
35 L/100km8.07088571 Imperial mpg
45 L/100km6.27735556 Imperial mpg
50 L/100km5.64962 Imperial mpg
 
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Big advances with ICE.... Eclipse Cross 1.6 Turbo 8 L/100K going to Katoomba.... 6 on the way down.
And the conversion Chart I understand much better.....
 

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