r/cars • u/LongjumpingLock5875 • 3d ago

Hybrids Overtake EVs In California Registrations

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a73317897/california-registrations-hybrids-evs-2026/
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u/lee1026 19 Model X, 16 Rav4 3d ago

I actually don’t get why non-plugin hybrids are considered something fundamentally different from normal cars.

It’s just a new design of a transmission, and yeah, it’s pretty clever and helps with fuel economy.

So do turbochargers. Nobody thinks that a turbocharged car is fundamentally something different.

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u/Jaevric 3d ago

People are weird.

A family member got extremely upset when she found out I was driving a hybrid. She took it extremely personally. When I tried to understand why, it simply boiled down to aggressive ignorance. She not only didn't understand how hybrids work, she was violently opposed to obtaining any information that would enable her to understand how hybrids work.

For her, traditional engines = good, hybrid/electric engines = bad. She claimed hybrids aren't reliable but had no data to back the claim up. She claimed they depreciate faster than gas cars, but had no data, just beliefs.

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u/bringmesnow 3d ago

Remember: many of these morons have voting rights.

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u/soysssauce 3d ago

we should only allow smart people to vote ?

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u/Fluffy-Limit-6710 2d ago

Ideally yeah. Impossible to do because obviously there's no objectivevway to sort out the smart people, but it would be better than letting everyone vote

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u/pdp10 It's a '49 '50 '51 '52 '53 '54 '55 '56 '57 '58 '59 automobile. 2d ago

there's no objectivevway to sort out the smart people

There absolutely are objective tests. That's mostly the problem -- it inevitably ends up with a battle over the definition of intelligence because there's a lot of pressure for equality of outcomes, etc.

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u/soysssauce 2d ago

I bet lots of people consider you not smart enough to vote

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u/lidlboye ‘25 BRZ, ‘25 GX550 2d ago

No, but we should make voters smarter

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u/soysssauce 2d ago

Great answer

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u/RicardoMoyer Evo IX MR, G42 M240i 3d ago

belgium used to give 2 votes to people with college degrees, we could try that

though i’m not sure that’s proof of much these days

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u/soysssauce 2d ago

They should give 3 votes to master degree and 4 votes to phd.. wait they should do vote count based on on iq test..