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I disagree that hybrids are the future. Hybrids are the present. They are very mature technology that is better than traditional ICE cars in every way but up-front price, and only by a small margin.



Hybrids are still only 5% of the US light vehicle market. The numbers are growing fast, but they're still more future than present.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/us-hyb...


Are you sure you interpreted this number correctly? Seems like EV sales (83%) are growing faster than Hybrid (76%) sales. So no, hybrids are very much a temporary stop gap solution. EV will overtake Hybrids soon; possibly in 2 years.


yup, they're a transition technology.

I live in hope that EV's are an advanced transition technology as well.




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