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With new hybrid and advanced engines, Ford, Toyota, GM and Porsche promise to revolutionize the automotive market and challenge the future of electric vehicles.
Automotive giants Ford, Toyota, GM and Porsche have just announced a new engine that promises destroy the entire electric vehicle industry. Combining the best of technology internal combustion engines and electric motors, these companies are ready to transform the future of mobility. But will this strategy really undermine the reign of electric vehicles?
Porsche ATH
Porsche, famous for its engines powerful and unforgettable driving experiences, presented his new engine advanced hybrid, the ATH (Advanced Turbocharged Hybrid). This engine combines a turbocharged V6 with an electric motor, offering an exciting and efficient driving experience. With an impressive 464 hp and 480 lb-ft of torque, the ATH not only promises breathtaking performance, but also a fuel efficiency of 120 mpg. Furthermore, Porsche has incorporated an advanced energy recovery system, making the ATH not only powerful but also eco-friendly.
Toyota HSD Plus
Toyota, pioneering the hybrid revolution with the Prius, continues to innovate with HSD Plus (Hybrid Synergy Drive Plus). This one new engine offers impressive efficiency, greater power and a smooth transition between electric and hybrid modes. Combining a 1.5-liter gasoline engine with a super-powerful electric motor, the HSD Plus achieves performance comparable to 2-liter gasoline engines while maintaining fuel efficiency of up to 52 MPG. Toyota shows that hybrid technology still has a lot to offer in the automotive scene.
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Ford EcoBoost Max
Ford brings EcoBoost Max, a new engine that redefines driving with its turbocharging technology and variable valve system. This hybrid engine combines an efficient gasoline engine with a powerful electric motor, enabling varied driving modes that adapt to the driver's needs. With 430 hp and 570 lb-ft of torque, the EcoBoost Max can tow up to 11.200 pounds, making it a powerful and versatile option for a variety of driving types. Additionally, Ford has incorporated a regenerative braking system, increasing efficiency and extending the life of braking components.
GM HEC
General Motors launches the Hyper Efficient Combustion Engine (HEC), a new engine which represents a significant advance in internal combustion technology. With a highly efficient combustion process and advanced thermal management systems, HEC promises superior performance and low pollutant emissions. Using lightweight materials and variable compression technology, GM offers an engine that is both powerful and economical, challenging the notion that electric vehicles are the only sustainable solution.
Impact on the electric vehicle market
The introduction of these new engines by giants Ford, Toyota, GM and Porsche calls into question the future of electric vehicles. With fuel efficiency Enhanced and competitive performance, these hybrid engines offer an attractive alternative for consumers, especially in markets where the infrastructure for electric vehicles is still developing. Competition could lead EV manufacturers to accelerate innovations in batteries and charging networks, seeking to maintain their relevance in the market.
With the launch of these new engines, Ford, Toyota, GM and Porsche not only challenge the dominance of electric vehicles, but also reaffirm the importance of hybrid engines in the transition to a more sustainable future. Fierce competition promises to benefit consumers, offering more options and driving technological innovations in the automotive sector.
The average fuel consumption of hybrid vehicles in the US is 59 mpg (miles per gallon), equivalent to 25,08 km/l. Announcing more than double that, that is, 120 mpg, equivalent to 51,02 km/l, is quite an achievement, but it is insufficient to take away the competitive advantages of electric vehicles, the main ones of which are zero pollutant emissions, as they do not use combustion engines, minimal maintenance, including items such as spark plugs, filters, lubricants, parts in general, etc., and mainly energy cost/km, which for an electric vehicle is currently less than half that of hybrid vehicles and is continually decreasing due to technological advances and the efficiency of batteries and motors in electric vehicles (EVs), allows us to reach the logical conclusion that EVs are the solution for the future of mobility for Humanity and that combustion engines will inevitably become obsolete.
Clearly, your calculations are for your argument in defending cell phones with wheels, forgetting that the combustion engine does not necessarily work with petroleum derivatives but with renewable energy. This is the case of ethanol and yesterday Brazil launched in Ceará the first plant (factory) for the production of nitrogen and green ammonia. In other words, to power combustion engines!! Once again in history the 100% electric car has died. The clearest sign of the death of these cars are the powers (Shell, Toyota, Nissan, Mazda, Porsche, etc.) that have already changed the focus of investments to new hybrid engines with green fuels. Do you know that simply manufacturing a single battery for these cars releases 60 tons of CO2 into the air? And that its useful life is 1000 cycles and then has to be discarded and pollute the soil? Your calculations and arguments do not add up.
There is still the problem of infrastructure to charge the batteries, 40 kW is enough energy per car to charge the entire battery. Now electric cars have a great advantage in not emitting heat, almost 2/3 of the gasoline is transformed into heat, this makes the city very hot, even if the energy is generated in thermoelectric plants this heat is far from the metropolises, now recycling is a big problem indeed.
False arguments from a bankrupt industry... GM, Ford, Stellantis, VW, et al have no chance of competing in the EV segment and they keep coming up with all these arguments... pure agonizing phase, don't fall for it
I will never drive a car that needs to be plugged in for 3 hours to run. Bad idea and it's already gone bad for them.
Electric vehicles do not pollute while they are in operation. They will pollute, and a lot, when their batteries are discarded.
Batteries are easily used in solar systems for many years, after which they can be recycled, and there is already a Brazilian company investing in this.
Your comment is ridiculous!!! If electric cars were 0 pollutants, but in practice we know that used batteries are infinitely more harmful, they are carcinogenic, flammable and in 4 years they cause a 50% devaluation in the value of the car. Take these carcasses as an example (byb dolfhin)
Used cars are champions in depreciation.
I believe that combustion engines will still be around by 2050!! Electric engines can be good and we know how eco-friendly they are, but what about battery production?!!
When new, great, until there are problems with the battery system, which, according to what they say, causes 40 to 50% of the vehicle's damage and from what they say, they still don't have the structure for maintenance, parts and specialized labor!!
** they don't cause, they cost 40 to 50%!!
The whole idea that electric motors don't pollute has become more than boring. The distracted don't remember where the energy to charge the batteries comes from, in addition to the tons of minerals that need to be processed to produce the battery for a single electric car, in addition to its final products, with components that are not recyclable. Many don't see other interests behind it.
Brazil's energy matrix is renewable, not to mention the exponential increase in wind and solar energy in the country.
All for the good of the nations and the world. But when will they enter the market?
Every day a revolutionary engine from the dying thermal vehicle companies, meanwhile, batteries only evolve and reduce in price, while combustion cars are increasingly disposable and continue to pollute and make noise.
We already have green H2 generation here in Brazil at a cost of just one dollar per kilo of GREEN H2!