someone calling out giants like toyota when they're actively trying to deceive the public in order to further their own agenda consider supporting me on patreon so i can continue to call out companies and people in the future all right let's take a look at one of these statements he says that toyota has sold more than NUMBER_TOKEN hybrids into australia since NUMBER_TOKEN and according to our calculations those NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN hybrids have had the same impact on reducing coNUMBER_TOKEN as approximately NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN battery electric vehicles yet the volume of batteries we've used to produce these hybrid electric vehicles is the same as we'd need for just NUMBER_TOKEN battery electric vehicles in other words we can say that the batteries needed for NUMBER_TOKEN bevs have been used to achieve the coNUMBER_TOKEN emission reduction effect of NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN bevs and all right this is actually quite a lot to unpack first we need to look at a few things at a conceptual level because i think he's making a false equivalency right here he's saying that they've sold a bunch of hybrids which use less batteries per vehicle so per battery kilowatt hour they've reduced more coNUMBER_TOKEN than if they'd use that amount of batteries in pure evs that logic doesn't add up or at least isn't giving the full picture over the lifespan of the vehicle countless studies have proven that battery electric vehicles even when compared to hybrids that get NUMBER_TOKEN miles per gallon plus will emit significantly less coNUMBER_TOKEN despite having a larger initial coNUMBER_TOKEN footprint for the larger battery the case he's putting forth is one where you can't just make more battery electric vehicles which would have lower coNUMBER_TOKEN emissions over their life but let's check their math because that also doesn't look quite right to me they say that it takes the same amount of batteries to make NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN hybrids as to make NUMBER_TOKEN battery ebs which is an easy calculation to check if that's true that would mean each hybrid has about NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN the battery of a bev but when we compare that to the real world it doesn't add up the prius which is their most popular hybrid has between a NUMBER_TOKEN and NUMBER_TOKEN kilowatt hour battery depending on which model you get and when we check the average battery size for light duty vehicles in australia the most recent data i could find which was from NUMBER_TOKEN had an average battery size of NUMBER_TOKEN kilowatt hours even if we use the smallest prius battery for every vehicle which wouldn't be realistic because some priusos have larger batteries that would only be NUMBER_TOKEN hybrid batteries per one battery electric vehicle which is less than half of what toyota's president is claiming from those simple calculations where we gave toyota the best case possible for their claims it's easy to see that they're intentionally skewing the data to put their hybrids in a better light than is reality so that's really frustrating to see but it doesn't end there he also says that if you're recharging a NUMBER_TOKEN kilometer bev every night for an average round-trip commute of NUMBER_TOKEN kilometers then you're not getting any carbon reduction benefit from NUMBER_TOKEN of the battery cells and that's largely true but it's misleading as hell he's only looking at the battery usage but if you just think critically for a second you realize why he's only focusing on
START_SELFPROMO_TOKEN someone calling out giants like toyota when they're actively trying to deceive the public in order to further their own agenda consider supporting me on patreon so i can continue to call out companies and people in the future all right let's take a look at one of these statements END_SELFPROMO_TOKEN