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I guess I should stop driving like a grandma.
And it's very difficult to build an ICE vehicle that is that efficient and that people also want to buy, at least in the US.
Which would make the Rube Goldberg hybrid power train even more complex, thus more expensive to buy and more expensive to service (good for
@oilhammer but not for the car owner).
This largely depends on intended use. If you do a ton of like 65 and below driving in an EV you can get crazy numbers. Like that's a really good use case for such a vehicle. But it's highway that matters to the majority of people for the majority of their miles and that's when efficiency is hurt in regards to EVs. The P2 can get those types of efficiency numbers but not with an average of faster driving.
Prius hybrid powertrain has been around forever is and is VERY reliable, small turbocharged engines have been around forever and are very reliable. The only "new" thing in that equation is plasma spark. Hybrids with turbo engines are nothing new.
Making efficient gas cars that sell is not difficult their just more expensive, but they cannot be more expensive than an equivalent EV... just saying
On that point my 6spd golf tdi could and would easily get 45MPG. How much better would that mileage have been with a ZF 8spd, instead of say a 6spd DSG or man like i had. What about the achates power OP engine running diesel which in terms of efficiency should walk away from the VAG 2.0....
The same achates power motor was shown in diesel to be north of 47MPG on an F150 -- That would put it in the range of an electric in terms of CO2. The sparkless gas variant would also be inline.
The problem with saying it can't be done is that it CAN. The engines from chevy say the LS, or VAG 2.0 or etc.. are iterative only. Whereas the achates power takes older technology that was abandoned and sets much newer processes against it, and is able to effectively dramatically increase its orig efficiency, the samething is true of the plasma ignition...
