• boonhet@sopuli.xyz
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    1 day ago

    The hybrids aren’t a consumer choice, companies like BMW, MB and Audi put MHEV technology on their normal diesel and petrol engines these days so they could call them hybrids. It’s a 48V integrated starter-generator, it only really helps when accelerating from a stop, but at the very least it’s cheap to add compared to a proper hybrid battery and extra motors and whatnot.

    Diesel is pretty much limited to commercial usage. I’m sure some idiot is driving a diesel truck around but that’s not common.

    11.4% pure diesel, but I’d wager a lot of the hybrids are diesel hybrids. From all the big German companies, if you buy a diesel now, it’ll be a diesel mild hybrid at least.

    And if you click on the source data link in the article, you’ll find that it was only new Pkw registrations, not Lkw. Personenkraftwagen = people carrying vehicle, Lastkraftwagen = cargo carrying vehicle. And you can even register pickup trucks as N1 instead of M1 making them Lkw rather than Pkw. If you were to register a large American pickup truck, you’d probably better off registering it as a cargo vehicle so you’d be taxed on weight rather than on its gigantic engine.