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it's time for scottykilmer.com are you trying to escape from high gasoline prices then you might think about getting a hybrid vehicle like this ford escape inside the trunk there's a giant battery pack to make it get better gas mileage and underneath the hood there's both an electric and a gasoline motor so you don't need to carry an extension cord around to recharge the battery the gasoline motor automatically recharges the battery as you drive and as you can see it also has a normal car battery to start the engine [Applause] now many people think these hybrid cars don't have much acceleration but watch this the combined torque of both the gasoline motor and the electric motor is as much as a v6 gasoline motor so there's plenty of horsepower to get you where you're going but when you factor in the excellent gas mileage that the electric motor gets this vehicle can get as much as 32 miles a gallon and that's 32 miles a gallon in town driving in the city stop and go traffic pretty good for an suv and another way it gets great gas mileage is by regenerative braking when you apply the brakes much of the energy is regenerated into electricity to run the electric motor you can even watch it on the little screen as you're driving to see what's happening when you're taking off the only thing you hear is a slight whine of the electric motor so now you know you can be green and go fast at the same time and as always if you have any car care questions just go to scotty kilmer.com and i'll answer them today i'm going to talk about what you should know if you're going to buy a hybrid car i'm not a big fan of hybrid cars they're an extremely high level of technology and as they age they can cost a small fortune to repair correctly but that said a lot of people are interested in them so i'm going to tell you the truth about hybrid cars what you should know before you either decide to buy one or not buy one now the first thing of course is reliability you want a reliable one okay this is a seven-year-old camry hybrid it's got a hundred and twelve 000 miles on it pretty much trouble free takes a four cylinder gasoline engine combines it with an electric motor and a huge battery so that it has more horsepower and can regenerate electricity when you slow down so you don't waste all that energy in town you regenerate and on a highway the electric motor gives a boost for more horsepower for example in this hybrid camry the combination between the engine and the electric motor gives 200 horsepower where a stock camry the same size and everything with the four cylinder engine puts out 178 horsepower so you got 22 more horsepower to mess around with now this isn't a prius the prius used atkinson cycle engines which are small four-cylinder gas engines that don't have cams in them it's an old design they kind of failed because they work fine but they don't put out enough horsepower but since they want the biggest gas mileage they can in the prius they use an atkinson motor but this engine is just a conventional toyota four-cylinder engine it's not an atkinson cycle it's a normal engine so this camry can get 43 miles a gallon in the city and 39 miles on the highway the highway is always lower because you're not regenerating on the highway where the conventional toyota camry with just a four-cylinder gas engine gets 25 in the city and 35 on the highway the 2013 prius hybrid it can get 49 miles a gallon on the highway and some of these people that own prius says man they drive conservatively i had a customer they actually got over 50 miles a gallon on a highway but he dropped like a snail too you gotta take that into consideration half the time he wouldn't even go in the speed limit so in the case of this camry hybrid it's in between a regular camry and a prius it gets good gas mileage better than the regular camry but not as good as the prius then you gotta decide what do you want a full-sized car that's really nice or a little bitty prius that isn't quite as nice now realize of course that all hybrid cars are insanely complex this camry air conditioning system it's not a normal one it doesn't run off a fan belt off the engine it's totally electronic if we look down here there it is you can see that's the back side there's no belt running it it's electronically run only a pro should work on them it's not something that you should even think about messing with besides the high amount of electricity can electrocute you they have to use a special type of refrigerant oil one that doesn't conduct electricity if you put regular peg oil in these things you can end up shorting the compressor out so you need a dedicated set of air conditioning equipment gauges just to work on these things you can't use one you use for everything else because if that gets contaminated by the wrong oil can shore it up so needless to say these are not diy repair cars by any stretch of the imagination working on these things you need safety gloves that are rated up to a thousand volts then leather gloves on top of that you gotta test them every time before you work on the car you gotta disconnect the power pack and wait for it to power down this is stuff that you don't want to mess around with yourself but as the saying goes if it ain't broke don't fix it this is a toyota hybrid they don't really have that many problems breaking down you don't break down you don't care how complicated it is i advise people if you're going to buy hybrid buy a brand new one don't buy an old one with a lot of mileage let's say the battery decides to go out these batteries cost thousands and thousands of dollars only a pro can replace them and i've noticed recently a lot of guys are offering these rebuilt or remanufactured battery packs my advice is stay away from that stuff you'll get some kind of a guarantee but the ones that i've seen they never lasted all that long this one's still got the original one seven years old i've seen them 15 they're still working on the original ones but since the battery packs are just that they're a bunch of smaller batteries connected together they start to go bad they have machines to test them and they'll say oh so many of these are bad we'll replace those solder new ones in but still you got a whole bunch of old ones left they're not going to last 10 15 years these remanufacturer rebuilt ones it's just a fact so if you decide you want to buy a hybrid one i'd say buy yourself a new one and two decide what kind of drive am i going to do i met uber drivers in seattle they were all driving toyota hybrid vehicles they loved them because they do all kinds of stop-and-go driving and they got great gas mileage in town sometimes two to three times of the vehicles that they said they had previously driven so they were sold on them but that's a business decision they know how much they pay for fuel how many miles they drive but if you're just a normal person driving around and especially if you do a lot of highway driving hybrid camry it only gets three miles a gallon better gas mileage on a highway than the non-hybrid one if you're driving on a highway all the time all that extra money you're paying for the hybrid you'll probably never recoup your investment and yeah in this case 23 more horsepower but truthfully when i drive them around i really can't tell the difference between this and a regular camry when i'm driving on a highway really doesn't make all that much difference acceleration-wise but that said i've got lots of customers are driving toyota hybrids and they're perfectly happy with them they got well over a hundred thousand trouble-free miles on them just really stay away from buying a low priced high mileage old one because i had a customer buy one that was like 11 years old had 150 000 miles on it generator went up and it was gonna cost about five thousand dollars to repair it because the design the engine the transmission had to be taken out was a very expensive thing to do and hey who's going to spend that on a car that they only paid 1500 for now i do have to say they're better designed than it used to be even in this 2013 hey there's a lot of room in the trunk the battery doesn't take up all that much space yeah it's a little bit smaller than the regular camry that goes a little deeper down a little bit further but it still holds a lot of junk look at all the stuff my customers got in the trunk and now of course comes the price this hybrid camry is six thousand dollars more than the non-hybrid camry now if you don't mind that price differential and the realization that repairs when they finally do break down if you keep them long enough are going to be a lot more than the non-hybrid camry you might think hey i don't drive stop and go all the time in a business that i'll ever recoup six thousand dollars in cost so you might just go for the regular camry that cost really depends on a lot of things even the world economic status gasoline is presently relatively cheap if gas gets to be super expensive having a car that gets that much better gas mileage in town is going to be an even bigger reason to buy the vehicle just realize that you're going to have to find a mechanic who's got some great scan tools and who really understands hybrid cars and high voltage electricity all these orange wiring over here down here 200 volts up and kill people 12 volts you can stick your tongue on the battery in your hand on the other table and battery and it won't hurt you at all but you don't want to be messing around with 200 volts so now you know what to look for if you're thinking about buying a hybrid car so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos remember to ring that bell [Music] foreign

Channel: Scotty Kilmer

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Length: 10min 3sec (603 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 20 2020