It’s time to expose the sham of hybrids
The Swiss canton of Valais is to stop providing subsidies to people who buy hybrid vehicles after a rigorous study it commissioned from a specialized environmental consulting company concluded that their fuel consumption and emissions make them as harmful as diesel vehicles.
The consultancy’s finding should come as no surprise: hybrids are a sham, a way to salve the conscience of drivers who, in many countries, still do not dare, usually due to lack of knowledge, to buy electric vehicles.
The facts speak for themselves: hybrid vehicle manufacturers’ consumption metrics based on the Worldwide Harmonized Light Vehicles’ Test Cycle (WLTP) that usually promise fuel consumption of between one and two liters per hundred kilometers are the product of ideal conditions employing expert drivers. In practice, under real traffic conditions and with drivers focused simply on getting from A to B rather than trying to break consumption records, these cars generally consume about four times more; between four and seven liters per hundred kilometers. In large hybrid vehicles, that can be up to ten liters per hundred kilometers. In the end, leaving aside the questionable good intentions of hybrid vehicle makers, charging a battery while driving with an internal combustion engine means lower performance.
