How did Toyota's Prius save 5 BILLION gallons of fuel?

The Toyota Prius isn’t the coolest car on the block. If you’re ordering a Lyft or an Uber, chances are one of these will turn up to whisk you away. And with the world gravitating towards electric vehicles, the hybrid Prius seems like just another Toyota misstep, like their attempt to sell us cars using hydrogen fuel cells. | But the Prius’ economical hybrid powertrain has likely saved more than 5 billion gallons of petrol from being burned since it was introduced. Just why did Toyota start looking into hybrids, and are hybrids really a dead end technology? Excellent videos describing how a hybrid works:    • Prius Hybrid Drive Explained      • 1998 - 2003 Prius Transaxle -  P111 Quick ...   "Robot Cantina" Honda Insight & lawnmower engine:    • Episode 1.  We put a $99.00 Predator engin...   To get early ad-free access to new videos, or your name at the end of my videos, please consider supporting me using Patreon from just $1 or 80p a month at   / bigcar   Support me using PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/bigcartv Big Car Merch (t-shirts, mugs): https://teespring.com/stores/bigcartv Twitter:   / bigcartv   My second channel - Little Car:    / littlecar   Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lohner%... https://www.caranddriver.com/features... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partner...    • Prius Hybrid Drive Explained      • 1998 - 2003 Prius Transaxle -  P111 Quick ...   https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a27... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_...    • Hybrid-Electric Vehicle Energy Monitor   https://www.toyota.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Es... https://www.hybridcars.com/general-mo... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyundai... https://global.toyota/jp/detail/4061096/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automob... https://global.nissannews.com/en/rele...    • Episode 1.  We put a $99.00 Predator engin...   https://media.toyota.co.uk/product_in... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electri... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrol... https://www.toyota.com/ https://www.honda.com/ https://www.designboom.com/technology... https://www.best-selling-cars.com/eur... #bigcar