I love the toxic hydrocarbon vapor smell of gasoline, associate this VOC with progress, engines, things that make me love engineering, the word engine in the word engineering, how cool is that. All the hype today about LIB lithium ion electric vehicles, but big dog Toyota, they embraced dual motor generator ICE thermal efficiency engine hybrid strong Prius for 5 generations, & Hybrid & PRIME plug-in versions of many other Toyota vehicles now :) I drive a Corolla Hybrid Sedan, camp nap in the trunk kitted out for such & love it, gets 57.4 MPG so far net average fuel economy, holy crap cheap to operated excellent lowest total cost of ownership winner :) I also love motorsports, F1, world rally championship & dream of owning a GR Corolla, if anyone at Toyota hears me, please me know :)
Oldest 2001 Audi B5 A4 2.8L 30v V6 fuel injected, liquid cooled, narrow angle, torque monster, 24 mpg on premium fuel, 3500 pounds towing capacity, 4 door compact sedan heats up amazing, heated leather seats, premium BOSE sound system, full sun roof with tilt mode tinted class & insulated cover slides under it when closed to block light & heat loss. It uses fuel that costs almost $5 per gallon, I am able to get 27 mpg the way we drive it on Sundays to church 36 miles away. It has just less than 99K miles now. If the average speed 25 MPH then about 4000 hours on the engine, which was recently overhauled for $4 grand by Butera Motors in Seattle :) in very good condition, kept in an indoor garage space nice protected.
Our 2010 Prius III has about 160,000 miles, 2ZR-FXE engine 4 cylinder fuel injected 1.8 liter Atkinson cycle VVTI dual 40% thermal efficiency amazing innovation into PSD mixing torque with MG1 & MG2 motor generators to vary speed of wheels with many multi-mode strong hybrid performance uber efficient about 48 MPG overall, incredibly fuel efficient, we bought it used for $10 grand with 97,000 miles on it 10 years old, it still works daily reliable bang on fuel efficient practical low total cost king :)
Our 22 Corolla Hybrid Sedan LE, about 44,000 miles now, it gets average so far of 57.4 MPG, while having almost same engine 2ZR-FXE as Gen III Prius, with upgraded fiber reinforced plastic intake, exhaust heating coolant on cold start to warm engine faster, a few friction reduction tweaks, & 4AH 207.2v HV battery able to EV at up to 85 MPH engine off going down mountain pass example, its about 50% lower mass than older NiMH HV battery, while giving off 50% more peak power & faster regen energy recovery charging efficiency superior, but worse cold weather parked at ski resort all weekend as BHC battery heating elements waste energy keeping HV battery above 40 F temp to avoid damaging LIB. This one my daily commuter vehicle when I am not riding my motorcycle
2020 MT03 by Yamaha, 321cc offset twin 40HP, refined on R3 for 12 years, its beginner friendly soft launch hard to stall engine first gear, gear selection displayed on dash, not too fast but quick, ergonomic seating position more friendly for older riders, idles in city or between adjacent city commuting use, my primary use case to go to work & back. I did ride it 369 miles one way, butt was sore for 4 days after that. I added a Arapovic refurbished exhaust from Ebay $140, & customized a tail delete & LED very hacker stile with copper wires holding down the OEM turn signal LED units almost vertical. A small wind screen added to reduce wind buffeting at highway speeds, where in 6th gear the engine humming at 7K rpm, a little buzzy, not ideal for long highway trips.
2013 Honda PCX 150 has a fuel injected liquid cooled 153cc single of about 13 HP & 11 lb ft torque, its twist & go CVT automatic V-belt transmissions, this one fun, we take it riding 2 up in fair weather on back road trips & found Snohomish Airport Skydiving randomly one Saturday, the next weekend we were up there doing a jump with online discount, & both did it twice because it was so amazing. Our Honda scooter helped us meet so many nice people, like their old ad slogan nicest people ride Honda's, when in reality this Honda PXC actually made by Kimco, the largest scooter maker in the world in Taiwan, its engine made in Japan thankfully.
We have an excellent Honda 220 pressure washer with 6 HP & 2200 PSI that runs on stabilized gasoline in a carburetor, it blows junk using water from a hose, off concrete like a miracle, that Madona song, while our electric plug in pressure washer struggles to do half of that rate, its also less noisy & no air pollution, we can pick either to clean driveway, deck, all the trees nearby foul stuff with green stuff, biological, that pressure washes away leaving a clean surface that sings to my clean preference desires to have a pristine driveway, walkway, no moss or algae, fresh looking, crispy
Our backup Generator a Honda EU2000 from back then, 2018, its quiet at only 46 dB, we recently used it for 16 hours per day for 8 days straight, about 1 gallon of ethanol free fuel per day, to keep our fridge online, & run an electric space heater at 1000 watts while charging Eco-Flow River 2 Max, Smartphones, Laptops, Smart Watches, electronics, able to run on TV & Blue ray Player on River 2 Max as inverter power to LED TV & Blueray player only about 60 watts total. I keep about 7 gallons of stabil added ethanol free fuel on hand for power outages to fuel this backup generator. Its kept wet active and I pull it randomly, every few months to run it for a maintain test cycle, of at least 1 hour to make sure its working, change the oil, its kept in OEM box with plastic bag to keep the fuel from evaporating, inside the garage near the Audi, I keep the Yamaha MTO3 & E-bike Lectric 3.0 & my bicycle Specialized Crossroads 2.0 in the Garage with the Audi.
A string trimmer with 4 stroke engine, its a craftsman model from 2003 that still works, but broken case causes the clutch to fail fast, I replaces 3 of them in fast order, I conjure Ideas of putting this engine on my bicycle with a kit for such, but have no direct application or need, so it sits idle now, I fire it up randomly sometimes just to hear the small engine & smell that lovely exhaust that reminds me of progress :)
We will never run out of gasoline because of biofuels & synthetic fuels made from coal & natural gas, biogas, dump gas, captured cow farts, compost gas recovery, natural gas recovery from old oil wells, there are ways of converting waste plastics & used car tires into synthetic crude oil & make gasoline, diesel & jet fuel using shell GTL gas to liquids FT polymerization or isomerization technology. Using every renewable fuel trick under the sun we will have gasoline & diesel for thousands of years, though it will become so expensive, perhaps $20 dollars per liter by 2050, but still available for antique vehicles, long after sodium ion EV become the normal car, truck & SUV on roadways around the world.
Direct Injection, Turbo charging, Super Charging, Large Displacement Naturally Aspirated, or High RPM machine K20 Honda in S2000 exceptional engines, or the GR Corolla 1.6 turbo making 300 HP holy mother of machine excellence engineering modern marvel, that's amazing.
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