{"id":31506,"date":"2021-10-14T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=31506"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:45:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:45:31","slug":"thoughts-hv-ev-phv-fcv-still-enjoy-gasoline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20211014\/blogs\/thoughts\/thoughts-hv-ev-phv-fcv-still-enjoy-gasoline","title":{"rendered":"[Thoughts] HV, EV, PHV, FCV and all that\u2026 We&#8217;re still in an era where we can openly enjoy gasoline"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/jonathan-kemper-xwMQFszEMZc-unsplash-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31505\" width=\"375\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/jonathan-kemper-xwMQFszEMZc-unsplash-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/jonathan-kemper-xwMQFszEMZc-unsplash-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/jonathan-kemper-xwMQFszEMZc-unsplash-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/jonathan-kemper-xwMQFszEMZc-unsplash-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/jonathan-kemper-xwMQFszEMZc-unsplash-1200x1800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/jonathan-kemper-xwMQFszEMZc-unsplash.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gasoline engines might become rare in the future\u2026 <br>People might say things like &#8220;I saw a gas car for the first time in ages,&#8221; <br>or &#8220;Wow, what an amazing exhaust smell,&#8221; <br><br>and we may be heading toward such an era sooner than we think. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When you ask smokers &#8220;At what price would you quit smoking?&#8221; the answers vary\u2014some say 1,000 yen per pack, others 1,000 yen per cigarette. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It all comes down to &#8220;luxury goods&#8221;\u2014that&#8217;s why people keep doing it. A taste, a refinement\u2026 <br><br>I think motorcycles fall into that same category. <br>Hot in summer, cold in winter, you get rained on, you get dirty, and you can only carry two people max\u2014it&#8217;s incredibly inconvenient. But flip that around, and maybe there&#8217;s joy in that very hardship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A time may come when sound and smell diminish, but we&#8217;re not there yet with strict regulations. Maybe the time to enjoy it is now? You could even think of it that way. <br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gasoline engines might become rare in the future\u2026 People might say things like &#8220;I saw a gas car for the first time in ages,&#8221; or &#8220;Wow, what an amazing exhaust smell,&#8221; and we may be heading toward such an era sooner than we think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[269],"class_list":["post-31506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}