Comment by steve-atx-7600
7 days ago
“Many automakers have found that dropping batteries into a car originally designed for an internal combustion engine”. Reminds me of idiotic hybrid variants of Subaru and Honda vehicles that don’t have spare tires because the battery was slapped into the existing vehicle platform as an afterthought. Eg. Subaru forester hybrid. Car bought by educated, practical folks.
New Honda Accord hybrids do not include a spare tire. The manufacturers copied the idiocy.
For Toyota a spare tyre became on optional extra in Europe even on ICE models. They charge 200-300 Euro for having it.
Weird, they do here in Brazil (Hybrid Civics as well). Must be a cost or regulatory thing more than anything else.