RAV4 Hybrid vs RAV4 PHV: Problems that only EV can solve
It is a fact that future cars will have to go on the path of electrification and EV. There are almost no exceptions in automobile administration around the world, and they are declining to electrify and EV. However, at the same time, the electrification and EV conversion of cars is not progressing as the authorities expected, anywhere in the world. The reason is that electric vehicles and EVs still have challenges in terms of price and energy supply, and end-users do not buy them as the authorities expect.
However, the trend toward electrification and EV of cars will not go back even if there are some ups and downs. This is because EVs can only solve the environmental problems of vehicles such as toxic substances such as NOx and PM or greenhouse gases (CO2). No matter how strict the fuel consumption and exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine are regulated, neither toxic gas nor greenhouse gas will be zero forever, and at worst, it is just a cat-and-mouse game. Instead, if all cars in the world become EVs, the problem of exhaust gas from cars will disappear completely at that moment.
Of course, “Given the production and disposal of batteries and the CO2 emitted during power generation, EVs do not have zero emissions” or “In order to run a large number of EVs every day, in reality, we have to rely on nuclear power generation! There is also a reason for “engine car advocacy theory” such as “?”. However, the job of the environmental authorities of cars is to “make sure that the car in front of us does not emit bad things”, and the global energy debate is nothing more than another person for them.
So, even if Toyota really thinks that the hybrids they make are more realistic and efficient than plug-ins and EVs, there is no option not to do plug-ins and EVs. Toyota’s intention to make such a plug-in a product that can be sold in the current market is realized as one form of this RAV4 PHV.
